Does anyone know any Universities close to some good ski resorts? I want to start my studies in a few years and I'm looking for a place where I can do this, but ski as well. Love it so much, I can't be without it! I mostly do freestyle skiing, both park and back country. Right now, I live in Norway, but I want to study abroad, so I'm open for whatever country and place you can suggest. Appreciate it

There are actually a lot of threads about that.  Just type "college" in the search bar.  Since the US is so big, we need to hear more about what you want to concentrate on to know which schools might offer that.  New England (states include Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island) has probably the best concentration of colleges and ski resorts.  As you go out west, the snow quality improves but the driving distances expand as well.  Salt Lake City, UT, and Bozeman, MT, regularly come up as places to go based on proximity to ski resorts. 

The search function on this forum isn't working very well at this time.  You are better off using Google's site search functionality.  Go to Google and enter:

"colleges" site:epicski.com

TeamTord,

Just to help out a little...here are a few of those threads that maybe sibhusky was referring to:

• College & Skiing
• Skiing and College
• Skiing Colleges
• Best colleges near ski resorts

I found them by searching on the site (not using Google).

I used the site advanced search and got lots of relevant threads, Rio. My terms were

ski resort college university

I don't know how well you did on the Google search. It would be interesting to compare. My point is that we have been spending a great deal of time and resources on getting the search functionality optimized on this site, so please realize that improvements in all aspects of site functionality are ongoing and many of the features that were not 100% when we launched now are fully functioning.

I got some info from DanG on getting better search results (I had asked why my search brought up every single wiki at epicski) that may be helpful:

Not sure if CU Boulder was mentioned yet...for European resorts, it might be better to look on Snowheads.com, but Grenoble/Les Deux Alps might be a place to start depending on how good your French is...Geneve & Zurich would also likely have good schools with skiing nearby.

Thanks guys, lotsa information here for me to check out, really appreciate it. I will definitely use this snowheads.com site you're mentioning MEfree30, so I can find some stuff for the resorts and Unis in Europe. My French isn't the best, but I know the basic. If I decide on a French speaking location I will probably go down a few months ahead in time, before the studies start, just to learn the language.  ...Now I've got some investigation to do

This thread inspired a new wiki: http://www.epicski.com/wiki/epicski-search-and-advanced-seach-tutorial

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Dude,

When I went to McGill there was a bus that went to Jay every weekend. It was pretty rough getting up for a 7am bus on a Saturday morning

Quest University ("www.questu.ca/") is in the town of Squamish ... 1hr from downtown Vancouver & 40mins by car from Whistler.  Squamish is known as the outdoor sports capital of Canada ... world class mountain biking, kite & wind surfing, rock climbing, etc etc.  I just live there but obviously love it ;-)

North Idaho Collage; Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. 

Schweitzer Mt., Silver Mt., Lookout Pass, Mt. Spokane all within 30 min. to 1 hr drive. You have to like powder if you go there, if not remember you go to collage to learn.

The school sits on what could be the best beaches of the whole lake and has its own beach club with cheap rental sailboats and kayaks.  Oh yes it is pretty to National Geographic named Lake Cd'A one of the 10 most beautiful in the world. 

Tourist town so lots of young people in small swim suits, if you like that sort of thing.  Quite a few student job opportunities there too, if you need that sort of thing.

Spokane, WA is 20 miles down a flat interstate so there is a semi major airport, & good entertainment opportunities within range.  More school choices too.

Worth looking at.  Good luck.

This may not be the size of ski area you're looking for, but just for kicks take a look at MTU (Michigan Tech) and NMU (Northern Michigan Univ.) in Michigan's upper peninsula.

MTU is an excellent school that is about 75% engineering curriculum and owns their own ski area. You'll find many fellow Norwegians there since they are also big in hockey and ski racing.

NMU is in Marquette and also has a local hill called Marquette Mountain.

Let us know how your search is looking.

Hint: if they are measuring distance in units of time, this is a product of  American car culture. allow more time if you are walking.

To my knowledge, Middlebury in Vermont and Dartmouth in New Hampshire are the best colleges in the USA that have a ski hill.

My home mountain is in Lake Tahoe, so I am prejudiced.

Sierra Nevada College is no Dartmouth. But since its in Incline Vlillage, you have the access of the world famous beautiful Lake Tahoe. In addition, I think its in walking distance to Diamond Peak, its a small resort but the lake view from its slopes is spectacular.

http://www.sierranevada.edu/home.php

The most significant program relate to skiing from Sierra Nevada College is described below:

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The Sierra Nevada College Ski Business & Resort Management (SBRM) program is the nation’s only four-year bachelor’s degree focused on the mountain-resort industry, taking advantage of a strong curriculum, faculty with decades of resort management experience, and opportunities to gain hands-on training with a handful of America’s leading ski resort companies, all located a short distance from the spectacular Sierra Nevada College campus.

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 Sierra NEvada? LOL, they recruited my sister in law years back (around 1989). She got a letter from the "Dean Dave" which had grammatical errors that I found (trust me THATS not good). Lola and I happened to be in Tahoe a few years (1993) later and saw the sign for the campus so we took a look. We looked around and just checked out the library, I have been in convenience stores that were bigger. My information is obviously a few years old, maybe (hopefully) it has changed. I am not sure they are an accredited college though.  

It does not take that many books to learn skiing..... 

Most of the universities in the State of Washington are within 1 hour of skiing.

English speaking Canadian universities that are close to good skiing:

University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC

Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC

University of British Columbia-Okanagan in Kelowna, BC

University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, BC

University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta

University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta

McGill University in Montreal, Quebec

Concordia University in Montreal Quebec

Bishop's University in Lennoxville Quebec

Can we just start a wiki that lists them state by state or something?  I don't know how to do this.  Then we'd discuss the pros and cons of each and only discuss Sierra Nevada in the Sierra Nevada instead of having to look through the whole thread or whatever. 

I hav an idea.

Just create a "Forum" in one of the Categories, Load the forum with all collecges/universitie by state.

IE:

BC, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

NV, Siearra Nevada College, Incline Village

.....

ppl can respond to those threads or add new suggestions... 

I just checked.  This exists.  Not sure how it got started. 

Go here.

I just updated the MSU info.  I'm going to paste some of the info from above in there as well.

The wiki does not provide places for some on to comment. 

You hit the edit button at the top.  As long as it's factual, you can edit it.  There's also a "Discuss" button.  But I haven't played with it yet.

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The wiki does not provide places for some on to comment. 

Right, but when you make those comments/edits, its doing to the whole thread. So its back to the same way, you have to go through the whole thread with 100's of comments to find the comment you want to read. 

Give me a for instance?  I inserted my stuff right in the middle in the MSU area.

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Right, but when you make those comments/edits, its doing to the whole thread. So its back to the same way, you have to go through the whole thread with 100's of comments to find the comment you want to read. 

Check out Fernie Alpine Resort in southeastern British Columbia on the southern end of the Canadian Rockies in the snowbelt! College of the Rockies has a program based in Fernie and there main campus is in Cranbrook which is less than 1 hour away! Powder skiing during the day and classes in the afternoon. Check out some details that i found on Fernie at http://www.skircr.com/matts-blog

What are you, a shill for Fernie?  You just got here and you're worse than I am for your mountain.

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Check out Fernie Alpine Resort in southeastern British Columbia on the southern end of the Canadian Rockies in the snowbelt! College of the Rockies has a program based in Fernie and there main campus is in Cranbrook which is less than 1 hour away! Powder skiing during the day and classes in the afternoon. Check out some details that i found on Fernie at http://www.skircr.com/matts-blog