Within commuting distance of Greenwich - or on the commuting periphery - there are nearly 200 campuses representing public and private colleges and universities extending across Connecticut and to the New York metropolitan area and Westchester County in New York.

The educational corridor is the home of the Ivy League bastions of Yale and Columbia, other highly regarded universities like Fordham and St. John’s and medical teaching hospitals of worldwide renown such as the Beth Israel Medical Center and the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System

In size the institutions extend from City University of New York - or CUNY as it’s more commonly called - with 23 campuses and 400,000-plus students to community colleges where the enrolment is limited to a few hundred.

The educational mosaic of the area is also enhanced by accredited vocational institutions in computer and automotive training, the U.S. Coastguard Academy in New London, CT, Julliard School and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and schools like Sarah Lawrence College that have a special place in U.S. education.

In addition available occupational instruction at the high school and college levels, public and private, covers trades and professions such as accounting, art and graphics, aviation, bartending, broadcasting, carpentry, criminal justice, culinary arts, drafting, electronics, fashion design, hairdressing and barbering, healthcare, interior design, manufacturing technology, massage therapy, medical ultrasound, multimedia, music, office administration, pharmacy technology, plumbing, real estate, tractor-trailers and trucking, video production and so on.