University of Akron
Akron, OH · Public university
5 minwalk to the closest stay
3stays inside a 20-min walk
5stays inside a 10-min drive
Campus visits, state by state
Hotels near colleges in Ohio
25 campuses452 places to stay measured
25campusesin OH
Photo: Paul Wasneski, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Shows Columbus; cropped.
By the numbers
25 schools in Ohio are on this site, with 452 places to stay measured around them. At 16 of them a place to stay is no more than about a 10-minute walk from the tour start or the campus edge, and at 24 one is within about 20 minutes. The shortest walk we measured here is about 1 minute, at Cleveland State University. For 1 of them the tour meeting place comes straight from the school's own visit page.
How to read these counts
A "10-minute walk" is our estimate from map distance to where the visit starts, or to the campus edge when we have not pinned that down; each school's page says which. Map dated November 2026. The full method
Every school we cover in Ohio
25 schools in Ohio, in A to Z order
Antioch College
Yellow Springs, OH · Liberal arts college
4 minwalk to the closest stay2stays inside a 20-min walk3stays inside a 10-min driveBowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH · Public university
12 minwalk to the closest stay3stays inside a 20-min walk6stays inside a 10-min driveCase Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH · Private university
8 minwalk to the closest stay5stays inside a 20-min walk9stays inside a 10-min driveCedarville University
Cedarville, OH · Private university
6 mindrive to the closest stay1stay inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH · Public university
6 minwalk to the closest stay5stays inside a 20-min walk29stays inside a 10-min driveCleveland State University
Cleveland, OH · Public university
1 minwalk to the closest stay18stays inside a 20-min walk24stays inside a 10-min driveThe College of Wooster
Wooster, OH · Liberal arts college
14 minwalk to the closest stay3stays inside a 20-min walk5stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Dayton
Dayton, OH · Private university
7 minwalk to the closest stay3stays inside a 20-min walk11stays inside a 10-min driveDenison University
Granville, OH · Liberal arts college
2 minwalk to the closest stay3stays inside a 20-min walk3stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Findlay
Findlay, OH · Private university
20 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk13stays inside a 10-min driveFranklin University
Columbus, OH · Private university
1 minwalk to the closest stay15stays inside a 20-min walk30stays inside a 10-min driveKent State University at Kent
Kent, OH · Public university
16 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk2stays inside a 10-min driveKenyon College
Gambier, OH · Liberal arts college
1 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk1stay inside a 10-min driveMiami University, Oxford
Oxford, OH · Public university
1 minwalk to the closest stay5stays inside a 20-min walk8stays inside a 10-min driveOberlin College
Oberlin, OH · Liberal arts college
1 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk1stay inside a 10-min driveOhio State University
Columbus, OH · Public university
16 minwalk to the closest stay2stays inside a 20-min walk31stays inside a 10-min driveOhio University
Athens, OH · Public university
2 minwalk to the closest stay4stays inside a 20-min walk9stays inside a 10-min driveOhio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH · Liberal arts college
3 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk3stays inside a 10-min drivePontifical College Josephinum
Columbus, OH · Liberal arts college
4 minwalk to the closest stay14stays inside a 20-min walk18stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Toledo
Toledo, OH · Public university
1 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk8stays inside a 10-min driveWittenberg University
Springfield, OH · Liberal arts college
15 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk4stays inside a 10-min driveWright State University
Dayton, OH · Public university
1 minwalk to the closest stay20stays inside a 20-min walk24stays inside a 10-min driveXavier University
Cincinnati, OH · Private university
11 minwalk to the closest stay2stays inside a 20-min walk15stays inside a 10-min driveYoungstown State University
Youngstown, OH · Public university
12 minwalk to the closest stay2stays inside a 20-min walk2stays inside a 10-min drive
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About these lists
Which colleges in Ohio do you cover?
25 four-year schools in Ohio: the larger public and private universities plus the liberal arts colleges families tour most. For-profit and online-only schools are left out.
Can you walk from a hotel to campus at schools in Ohio?
At 24 of the 25, the map shows a place to stay no more than about a 20-minute walk from the tour start or the campus edge. Each school's page lists them closest first.
Do the pages cover graduation as well as tours?
For 1 of these schools we've read the commencement venue on the school's own page and show it. Every page explains what its minutes run to, and the graduation guide covers when rooms sell out.
Where do the walking minutes come from?
From OpenStreetMap distances, turned into minutes by a fixed rule. Breakfast is listed for 22 schools' nearby hotels by brand standard. How the minutes are measured.