I'm planning a year as an exhange student from the fall 2015, possibly to a college/university in the US where I'll do undergrad subjects in CS.
Oh, and I'm in to running. At a rather mediocre level, 15 high 5k and 33 low 10k atm, but with higher ambitions.
So I'm browsing for an academically decent uni with great facilities, sorroundings and climate for running.
Any suggestions?
You have a couple options here:
Big school and find a running club.
Small school and try to join the university team.
Any school and train on your own.
If you would like the best facilities - finding a university team with a good coach would be the way to go in my opinion. There will probably be some hoops to jump through with the NCAA, so I would contact the coach as soon as (or even before) your study abroad gets approved. Having a coach, teammates and athletic trainers is very helpful for having support for your goals and keeping on track. On DIII teams, you can usually make of it what you want - still have time for other social experiences if you want.
A quick check for the NCAA rankings gives these engineering schools at the DIII level (I don't know about CS, and I almost certainly missed some)- you would probably be somewhere middle of the pack on these teams, not necessarily making the championship teams:
North Central
MIT
Johns Hopkins
Haverford
Tufts
RPI
Harvey Mudd
Carnegie Mellon
NYU
Other schools that I know off the top of my head that have decent distance programs and will have science/engineering in some capacity:
RIT
Rochester
WPI (not as good of a running program)
Thanks for the reply, I'll check in to those.
Of curiosity: In general, at what level (I'll relate to 3k, 5k, 10k times) is the typical D2 and D3 male xc runner?
Oregon
Do any have first hand experience with walking on a xc team as an exchange student?
Regardless of whether the institution is part of NCAA/NAIA;
Any recommedations for a university/college located in a runner friendly environment? That is with not too harsh of a climate and easily accesible running trails/routes?
Here's a list of the institutions in the US my uni has exhange agreements with:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12710889/US_Universities.pdf
LRC - Life advice wrote:
Regardless of whether the institution is part of NCAA/NAIA;
Any recommedations for a university/college located in a runner friendly environment? That is with not too harsh of a climate and easily accesible running trails/routes?
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Where is that?
of course you won't make the traveling team but the UNM coach would probably let you at least work out with their guys (they typically have 2-4 brits/SA's at any one time). They had guys around 15flat/15mid for 5k last I saw, which were allowed to train witht he team. obviously not the greatest school academically, but the grad programs are actually very strong (not ivy of course, but much stronger than the undergrad reputation would make you think), and of course the training environment is second to very few.
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