college areas I should avoid? (Baltimore, Towson: apartments, schools, university)

[DPooch167]

Are there any areas that i should avoid, where colleges or college kids usually hang out, or live on campus?

I'm just trying to avoid places that are near campuses...or college living headquarters where i'll have to deal with students hanging out late and night. I'm coming in to baltimore from another state and know nothing about the area yet

[GoPhils]

Towson is a big college town, but it is really one of the few college towns I've seen that is also a pretty desirable place to live for families and such, although yeah a lot of the apartments will have students in them. I believe enrollment-wise it's the biggest college in the Baltimore area (about 20,000), and there is also a smaller college called Goucher in Towson as well. (I didn't see this post when I read your first one but other than the colleges Towson does have pretty much everything you were looking for).

Since it seems like you were mostly talking about suburbs, UMBC in Catonsville is a decent size and Stevenson kinda near Owings Mills is a pretty small school.

But most of the rest of the colleges are in the city - Johns Hopkins, which is more grad students so may not be as "bad" if you don't like college kids; Loyola, Morgan and Coppin State (both historically black colleges), and both the University of Baltimore and University of Maryland-Baltimore (two different schools but I think UMB is mostly postgraduate)

[MDrex]

Around Towson students live in the cheaper apartments near campus and some of the aparpments on Kenilworth. The more expensive places in Towson seem to have far fewer students, if any at all.