Fall 2026 Tours
51³Ô¹Ï's campus tours for 51³Ô¹Ï Professional and Associate members are a great opportunity to explore campuses while you connect with colleagues. Save the date for our fall 2026 offerings!
Colorado
September 15–18, 2026
More information will be shared in summer 2026.
Smoky Mountains
September 15–18, 2026
More information will be shared in summer 2026.
Tour Registration Process
51³Ô¹Ï has implemented aÌýlottery system to ensure fairness in the tour participation registration system.
- When tour registration opens, all those who are interested and committed to attending have 48 hours to complete their preliminary registration(s).
- The preliminary registration includes providing credit card information, but cards are not charged at that time.
- A randomizer website selects those to attend from the list of those who have completed the preliminary registration for each tour.
- Those who are selected for a tour immediately have their payments processed to their credit card and receive a confirmation email.
- If two tours are running concurrently, during the lottery registration process, you will be asked your preference between the two. If you are selected by lottery for both, you will receive the spot on your preferred tour.
Those not selected are added to the waitlist in the randomized lottery order.
- Should tour opportunities open up due to cancellations, those on the waitlist are notified, in their randomized order, and given the choice to accept the spot or be removed from the waitlist.
Know Before You Register
Tours are thoughtfully planned by volunteers taking into consideration several factors, including planning a variety of schools to appeal to 51³Ô¹Ï members from all regions of the country with inclusivity in mind.
We try to include a combination of schools with national, broad regional, and special appeal–including HBCUs, CTCLs, single-sex, and those with a variety of strong programs and admission rates, when possible. Although not all the schools on this tour will work for your students, we hope you are able to appreciate them all and find something of value at each visit. Sometimes schools we would like to visit are unwilling or unable to accommodate us. This might explain their absence from the itinerary.ÌýÌý
An info session, tour, and student panel are requested but schools ultimately provide what they can for our visit. If time permits, we will include a bookstore visit, but it is not always possible.
We do our best to plan a tour with schools in proximity to each other but sometimes, in order to capture a variety of colleges, the schedule will include some longer drives. We also plan tours well in advance and sometimes changes occur in school priorities, budgets, and initiatives, necessitating modifications in our itineraries.
Organize a Tour
If your 51³Ô¹Ï committee would like to organize an in-person campus tour for 51³Ô¹Ï members, please fill out the form below.