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Campus visits, state by state

Hotels near colleges in Virginia

28 campuses613 places to stay measured

Lynchburg, Virginia28campuses
in VA

Photo: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shows Lynchburg; cropped.

By the numbers

28 schools in Virginia are on this site, with 613 places to stay measured around them. At 14 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 20 one is within about 20 minutes. The shortest walk we measured here is about 1 minute, at Old Dominion University.

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

a stay is a 10-minute walk or lessother campuses we cover

Every school we cover in Virginia

28 schools in Virginia, in A to Z order

About these lists

Which colleges in Virginia do you cover?

28 four-year schools in Virginia: 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 Virginia?

At 20 of the 28, 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 2 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 26 schools' nearby hotels by brand standard. How the minutes are measured.