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Colleges Word Search

Find the names of over two dozen US colleges and universities in this challenging colleges word search puzzle.

Colleges word search with 25 school names hidden in a 30 by 30 grid.

We went through several lists of the biggest and best colleges and universities in the US to put together this college word search. Search and circle all of them to see if your alma mater is included, and to help teens looking forward to graduation and continuing their education.

For simplicity, we did not include university in any school’s name and have used the common abbreviation for those best known by it.

Word list includes:

  • Amherst
  • Brown
  • Carnegie Mellon
  • Chicago
  • CIT (Chicago Institute of Technology)
  • Columbia
  • Cornell
  • Dartmouth
  • Duke
  • Harvard
  • Howard
  • Johns Hopskins
  • MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Morehouse
  • Northwestern
  • Princeton
  • Rice
  • Spelman
  • Stanford
  • UC Berkeley (University of California)
  • UCLA (University of California Los Angeles)
  • U Penn (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Vanderbilt
  • Williams
  • Yale


This is a hard puzzle; it’s recommended for approximately age thirteen and up.

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