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What are the approximate travel times (and costs) between Columbia University and every other major research university in the Northeast?

  • Assume that the person has to use mass transportation. Brown? Yale? MIT? Cornell? Harvard? Princeton? UPenn? Dartmouth? Penn State? NYU? UMass-Amherst? Boston University? Northeastern? Tufts? Boston College? Answers to even one of them are totally welcome.

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    Amtrak is generally more expensive than local transportation. I don't have exact numbers on all of these and it fluctuates seasonally and by time of week, but some estimates... Columbia to... NYU: Subway. $2.25/ride and about 30-45 minutes depending on time of day. Princeton: pick up NJ transit at Penn station. Under 2 hrs and $20. Yale: pick up Metro North at Grand Central station. Under 2 hrs and $20. Penn: amtrak from penn station to 30th st station is really easy, then a cab to penn. door to door maybe 2.5-3 hours. however, cost is highly variable and can be like $100. Harvard/MIT/Tufts/BU: same as penn--amtrak is convenient option, but not cheap. you can take the T to any of these once you get to south station. acela only saves you a little time and costs significantly more. would need to leave probably 6 hours door to door columbia-->harvard/MIT. Dartmouth: there's a bus from hanover to NYC, takes forever. Brown: amtrak goes to providence. i would presume there's also a bus. You can take the bolt bus from NY to Boston--cheap option and runs frequently. Can be as little as $15. Book early to get good rates. Hope this helps! Don't take this as gospel--I haven't been in college for awhile ;)

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For the Boston area universities/colleges: Cheapest:  Subway to Penn Station (1,2 or 3) $2.25 (30-45 mins).  Hop on the Bolt or Mega Bus to Boston South Station between $1-$32 (6-8 hours).  Then take the T to any of Harvard/MIT/Tufts which is the Redline inbound to Harvard/Kendall/Davis (10-20 mins).  For BC there MegaBus does sometimes stop in Newton on the way in so you could get a stop there.  Otherwise for BU/BC/Northeastern you take the Redline inbound to Park Station and transfer to the Greenline outbound B line (E line for Northeastern) (15-30 mins).  For UMass you take the Redline outbound to th UMass stop (10 mins).  T will cost about $1.70.  You can also go to Brown from Boston South Station on the MBTA commuter rail for less than $10 (1 hour). Quickest:  Subway to Penn Station (as above).  Acela to Boston South Station (3.5 hours).  Then the T as above.  Or for Brown get the Acela to Providence which is (3 hours). Price is $79-$132 to Boston and $69-$123 for Providence.  The Regional is generally an hour to an hour and a half slower and about half to 3/4 of the price. For Cornell the only way is really by bus (if you can there is the Ithaca-NYC Cornell campus bus).

Eugene J. Ng

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