I'm hoping to find a great college with great disc golf all around within short travel distances. I'm looking to find a college with a good science department that includes Chemical Engineering if anyone could help me please. I found lots of colleges with chemical engineering available but I'm looking for one with a great atmosphere and a good on campus student life and it would be perfect if it had a nice disc golf course on campus too. Thanks in advance for any help.

Not going to have much luck in the on-campus course prospects in SoCal; there are none.

That said, if you want to step up to the big leagues in the sciences you can do no better than Caltech in Pasadena. (Don't let the folks at MIT fool you into believing they're a better school, plus in Mass. they have this thing called winter.)

Caltech has what might be termed an "interesting" campus life (go rent the old movie with Val Kilmer called "Real Genius"), but you are in Pasadena which is a wonderful and diverse community. On the disc golf front you are less than fifteen minutes (by car) from Oak Grove Park - the world's first polehole course; Sylmar is another twenty minutes from there; Whittier Narrows about twenty five from Caltech to the east; the new Chavez Ridge by Dodger Stadium may be around twenty five minutes; the mighty La Mirada around forty five minutes as you head into Orange County. Of course all of these times are assuming reasonable traffic conditions /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

The Research Triangle folks in NC should have a lot to offer in both the colleges and courses (they have a lot more courses).

Best of luck and may you have many choices.

Bill Maury-Holmes

UC Irvine has a great Target Course. Something like over a 100 hole combonations, it's been there for years. Don't know about curriculum.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has an engineering program, but I'm not sure if Chem. Engineering is part of the curriculum. SLO is a great college town, has a good 9-holer, great 18-holer nearby in Atascadero, and is reasonably close to two courses in Santa Maria and, of course, DeLa in Santa Cruz.

I have a dg friend who is a Chem Engineer - I'll ask her what she would recommend.

Mars Hill College in Mars Hill NC. It's one of the Top 5 courses in NC and you can get college credit for playing disc golf! They also have a DG team that competes with other teams in western NC. Plus NC is a great DG state and mecca (Charlotte) isn't a very far drive. For DG it can't be beat!

There's only one small detail... they don't have Chem Engr. It would be worth a different major, though.
http://www.mhc.edu/academics.asp

rizbee where in california do you live in im visiting next october to see uc los angeles, ucsd, CSU Long Beach, and i believe Santa Barbara. Maybe we can swap numbers later on in the summer and plan to play some courses around where you live if you could thatd be great

The Rizbees live in San Marcos, a few miles away from Oceanside (Emerald Isle) and 30 minutes north of San Diego (Morley Field) and La Mesa (Sun Valley). We're always interested in showing a visitor around!

I live a minute from CSULB if you want to play ElDo or HB or where ever ...