TCT
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A campus tour shows you 25% of college.
We show you the other 75%.

A current student walks your family through the town your kid would actually live in.

5.0 on Google 125+ families From $150
Boulder, Colorado Campus one of many
Greek row, house by house Where sophomores actually rent Where people eat at 11pm Which dorm you do not want The walk to campus in February The bar strip, in daylight Greek row, house by house Where sophomores actually rent Where people eat at 11pm Which dorm you do not want The walk to campus in February The bar strip, in daylight

Two tours of the same school.

25%

The official tour

  • Thirty people, walking backward
  • A route set by admissions
  • Never leaves campus
  • Free
75%

Our tour

  • Your family and one student guide
  • A route built around your kid
  • Campus and the whole town
  • From $150

Eight students. Not a marketplace.

Named, trained by us, and actually enrolled there right now.

Annie Chwalek, CU Boulder tour guide

Annie Chwalek

CU Boulder  ·  Class of '29

Business and Delta Gamma. Ask her about sorority recruitment.

Nelson Cross, CU Boulder tour guide

Nelson Cross

CU Boulder  ·  Class of '28

Marketing. Has eaten at everything in town worth eating at.

Angelique Vuldy, CU Boulder tour guide

Angelique Vuldy

CU Boulder  ·  Class of '27

Finance, and an official CU tour guide. She knows what they skip.

Pearl Street, Boulder, on a weekday afternoon A Boulder cafe where students study Students at The Hill Jam, a street event in Boulder
“Chose CU because of these guys.”

Owen Parker  ·  One of 16 five-star Google reviews

Answered every question in a very honest and informative way. Helped us parents feel more comfortable.

Tom Neuberger · Parent

Our son left the tour feeling well-informed and even more confident about his decision to attend CU Boulder.

Jim Maucere · Parent

The pricing was very reasonable for the level of personalization and attention we received.

Megan Joy · Group booking

Featured by CU Boulder's Leeds School of Business  ·  Tour partner of The Sink  ·  Listed in CU Buy Local

One town now. We open them one at a time.

A campus appears here when a real student is running it. Not before.

Booking now

Boulder, Colorado

CU Boulder. Eight guides, running since 2025.

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Opening next

Bloomington, Indiana

Indiana University. We are hiring the student who will run it.

Run TCT at Indiana →

Tell us where

Your school

We pick the next town partly on where families ask us to go.

Ask about a campus →

Price

From $150

Per tour, not per person. 60 to 90 minutes, private, plus your guide's email afterward.

Questions.

Why pay when the university tour is free?

Because the free one is thirty people on a fixed route that never leaves campus. Most of your kid's life there happens outside it.

Who gives the tour?

A currently enrolled student at that school, trained by us and named on this site. We match them to what your student cares about.

Are you affiliated with the university?

No. We are independent, not endorsed by any school, and we do not sell admissions advice.

What happened to Tour the Hill?

Tour the Hill is us. The Hill is a Boulder place, so the name stopped working once we started opening other towns. Same guides, same reviews. Boulder bookings still run through tourthehillboulder.com while we finish the move.

They're picking where they'll spend four years.