Here's a list of colleges near skiing

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Best Colleges for skiing

Indulge your passion for skiing and get a quality education at the same time.

Many colleges in the United States and Canada have ski teams and competitive skiing. Not all of them fit our Ski School criteria: close to the slopes. Be sure to check out ski teams and competition skiing. Obviously, the two categories overlap.

There are plenty of Ski Schools within a two hour drive to the slopes. Our list follows, but if you have other suggestions, please use our Contact Us Form to let us know, so we can check it out and include your school on our list.

University of Alaska - Fairbanks

Northern Arizona University - Flagstaff

Adams State College - Alamosa, Colorado

Colorado College - Colorado Springs

Colorado Mountain College (2 year, multiple campuses, dorms)

Colorado School of Mines -Golden

University of Colorado - Boulder

University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

United States Air Force Academy - Near Colorado Springs

Fort Lewis College - Durango, Colorado

Western State College of Colorado - Gunnison

University of Colorado - Denver

The University of Denver

University of Idaho - Moscow

Colby College -Watertown, Maine

University of Maine, Presque Isle

Michigan Technological University - Houghton

Montana State University - Bozeman

Carroll College - Helena, Montana

University of Montana - Montana Tech, Butte

University of Montana - Missoula

The University of Montana - Western, Dillon

A Ski School Heavan: Sierra Nevada College - Incline Village, Nevada

Morrison University-Reno, Nevada

University of Nevada - Reno

University of New Hampshire- Durham

College of Sante Fe- New Mexico

St. John's College - Sante Fe

University of New Mexico - Albuquerque

Juniata College - Huntington, Pennsylvania

Paul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences - Paul Smiths, New York

St. Lawrence University - Canton, New York

University of Utah - Salt Lake

Westminster College - Salt Lake City, Utah

Champlain College - Burlington, Vermont

College of St. Joseph - Rutland, Vermont

Middlebury College

Saint Michael's College - Colchester, Vermont

University of Vermont

University of Washington - Seattle
 
University of Alaska - Fairbanks

really?

United States Air Force Academy - Near Colorado Springs

If your going to the academy, I am 100% sure your focus will not be skiing, and if it is that will change quickly.

University of Idaho - Moscow

But WSU in pullman does not make it?

Colby College -Watertown, Maine

east coast

University of Maine, Presque Isle

east coast

Michigan Technological University - Houghton

mid west.

University of New Hampshire- Durham

east

Juniata College - Huntington, Pennsylvania

east

Paul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences - Paul Smiths, New York

east

St. Lawrence University - Canton, New York

east

Champlain College - Burlington, Vermont

east

College of St. Joseph - Rutland, Vermont

east

Middlebury College

east

Saint Michael's College - Colchester, Vermont

east

University of Vermont

east

and at the end of the day if your going to school to ski, your going to school for the wrong reason.
 
Obviously. But they are all school near skiing, it's not necessarily world class skiing but it's the best skiing you can find in all the areas of the US. So if you want to eliminate all the east and midwest you're missing the entire point of this.
 
I think you meant the University of Maine at Farmington..... Presque Isle isn't really near any decent skiing. Hours away actually. UMF is about 35 min from Sugarloaf, an hour from Sunday River. Pretty chill little school.
 
didn't make the list. there are a ton more schools that could be put on there I'm sure. just thought NS might like it, I stumbled across it while checking out colorado college.
 
You should put UMF on the list wayyyy above Presque Isle. Unless you really want to pursue a career in potato farming. I've only been that far north once, for a Phish show, and there is NOTHING going on in Northern Maine.
 
anybody know any somewhat decent mountains near buffalo

at 16,000 a year theres a good chance ill end up there so im hoping theres a decent mountain somewhere close
 
im a junior in highschool and am 100% sure i will be at a ski college in the west or if i absolutely must be on the east coast, burlington VT. I was considering the U of U pretty heavily untill i heard the academics arent that great there. its still an option but i want to look around. so there are some things i need to know,

anyone have any input on University of Colorado @ Colorado Springs?

and i have a 3.92 weighted GPA and will finish highschool at about a 3.89 by the looks of things. anyone want to suggest an engineering based college for me in the west with good academics and good skiing? im looking to get into ski design or some similar field of work in the ski industry.

i might just make a thread out of this...

 
I'm a senior and I was in pretty much exactly the same position, good thing your starting early. I fucked myself and didnt look at any schools out west i wish i never let my mom talk me out of it
 
University of Washington, has a killer engineering college, not that far from skiing. Academics are tough though.

MSU, is another one to consider, really close to really good skiing. Cold though. really cold.

keep in mind your not going to have great parks near either though.

 
hey i wanna do the same thing as you but what type of engineering designs skis? is it like mechanical, civil or materials?
 
thanks,

and yeah, im kind of a park rat but im currently in pennsylvania, and i have a feeling a pair of bents and real snow might change that a bit. (today was the second biggest pow day of the year, 4 inches!)
 
your wrong about the air force academy i almost went there and i know a couple people that went tere and they skied allot, but mostly on weekends
 
Dont go to UCCS, It's not a great school acedmically, the kids are extreemly close minded and its a commuter school; if your looking for a state school in CO go to Boulder or CSU. If you really want to apply your self in enginering go to Colorado School of Mines, you will have a much better time at these schools then at UCCS
 
Don't count out B-town, I graduated from UVM with a mechanical engineering degreee last winter. Burlington is a blast and there are a ton of resorts with in an hours drive. If you end up at CO springs you are quite a bit farther from the ski areas (even though they are bigger and get more snow) so you have to know that skiing after or before class on a week day is most lifely out of the question.

Good luck with the school search, and good luck studying engineering. Its hard but I enjoyed it and its a great degree to walk away with... even if you do like me and move to Colorado as soon as your finish to be on park crew!!!
 
materials,

UCCO is no longer an option because it is a commuter school. i will need to live on campus and be close to skiing which i did not realize UCCO has neither.

thanks to everyone helping.

MSU and the University of Washington are looking good, and i have gotten a ton of interest from the CO school of mines for some reason (like 6 big envelopes full of info), and if i choose to lean more towards skiing and an easier academic course i can always resort to the U of U.
 
hahaha University of Alaska Fairbanks
PLEASE TAKE THAT OFF THE LIST so you do not mislead any poor souls. I lived in fairbanks and my parents used to be proffs at UAF before retiring. If you want to ski, dont come to fairbanks. Its the only place shittier than the east coast. We have three hills and only two chair lifts because the third hill uses old school buses. Added to that a third of the weekends you are unable to ski because its -20F or colder outside. We get about 6 in of snow in october and maybe another foot for the rest of the season. A "powder day" in fairbanks is considered to be 1 inch of new snow. Now, this isnt to say fairbanks doesnt have any redeeming qualities. The UAF community is great, its an excellent school, and it was a nice quiet place to learn how to ski, but if your top priority is skiing dont go to UAF just because its in alaska and you want to slay some epic lines that you see in all the ski movies.
Now if you do want to come to AK for college and you're looking to ski, University of Alaska Anchorage might suit you better. Its about 40 minutes away from Girdwood and Alyeska but the school isnt that great.
 
Which college would you recommend that is on the West Coast and reasonably cheap because I was going to move away after High School from East Coast to West Coast and ski as an instructor for a few years and eventually go to college. Just a few names of some colleges would be nice so I can start looking.
 
if you ski that much you'll get shitty grades or you go fucking terrible school.

I go to UBC and I have class 3 days a week and I'm lucky if I get three days of skiing in week too mucch homework otherwise.
 
Oh and just to make an interesting point, travel from the Springs is easier than from Boulder since you can take 24 or 70
 
CU boulder is a very highly ranked and regarded school for engineering, especially aerospace, but, from experience, its a lot of work. great place tho
 
Just to throw this out there, Michigan Technological University is where I go and we have great engineering programs (Mechanical, Civil, Materials etc..). The hill that is two minutes from campus is not huge but has a good park and we get over 250 inches of snow a year. Also the university pays for your lift tickets. 40 minutes away is mount Bohemia which has some of the best backcountry skiing in the midwest. In addition there is a enterprise class which is student run which designs and builds snowboards, wakeboards, AND park obstacles.

Just some food for thought.

Links:

http://www.mtu.edu/http://www.enterprise.mtu.edu/boardsports/aboutus.html

http://www.mtbohemia.com/

http://www.aux.mtu.edu/ski/
 
2 hours is a bit more than I would want to drive to ski regularly, however "regularly" is defined.

College is a great excuse to go skiing. If you want to ski, use your trip to college to move someplace with some good mountains close by and a good ski culture, and you'll have the time of your life.
 
Hah!
If you want to be 2 1/2 hours away from anything skiing you can go to CSU.
There's a reason I moved from Ft. Collins.

- CMC Edwards: 10 minutes away from Vail. Sonnnn!
 
im considering that bozeman one. Very close to bridger bowl, and fairly close to big sky and jackson hole. Epic places.
 
The Iggyskier Quick List. Trying to go west to east (and sorry east cost kids - not too many I know over there so you will want to add to them). Some of better than others, but all have some skiing reasonably close.

University of British Columbia

Simon Frasier University

University of Washington

Western Washington University

Seattle Pacific University

Seattle University

University of Puget Sound

Pacific Lutheran University

Lewis & Clark College

University of Portland

Portland State University

Reed College

UC-Davis

Washington State University

University of Idaho

University of Utah

Westminster

University of Montana

Montana State University

University of Colorado

Colorado State University

Colorado College

Western State

Fort Lewis

University of Vermont (sorry east coast....you need to fill it in here)

I am missing some, but honestly, with the above, you should be pretty well covered.

and Yeah - there are some schools like Colorado mountain college or whatever, but honestly....unless you are going into ski resort management or something, they are not real schools.

 
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