Harvard University (USA)
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Harvard?
One - he holds the bulb and the world revolves around him.
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Undergraduates: 6,500
Graduates: 12,000
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Q. How many American University students does it take to change a light bulb?
A. 101 – One hundred to pass the bill through Congress and one to change it.
Location:...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Amherst?
Thirteen – one to change the bulb and an a capella group to immortalize the event in song.
Location:...

How many Barnard students does it take to change a light bulb?
2 – one to fetch it from Columbia University and one to find a way to integrate it into the Nine Ways of Knowing
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Bennington College
Bennington
Vermont
Undergrads: 670
Grads: 140
If you are free-spirited, liberal-minded and don't have an aversion to body hair or clogs then Bennington could...

How many Boston Uni students does it take to change a light bulb?
28 – one to buy it from the CVS across the street, one to dedicate it to Martin Luther King, one to throw it...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Brown?
Eleven - one to change the light bulb and ten to share the experience.
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Undergraduates:...

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Undergraduates: 5,900
Graduates: 5,100
There are some frats in operation, but if you’re looking for the craziest parties, look on. Students...

Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Undergraduates: 5,850
Graduates: 2,000
Students are quirky, friendly and intelligent and not ashamed to show it, and hail from an eclectic...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Columbia?
Seventy-six - one to change the light bulb, fifty to protest the light bulb’s right not to change, and twenty-five...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Cornell?
Two – one to change the light bulb and one to crack under the pressure.
Location: Ithaca, New...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Dartmouth?
None – Hanover doesn’t have electricity.
Location: Hanover, New Hampshire
Undergraduates: 4,100
Graduates: 1,100
As...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Duke?
A whole frat – but only one of them is sober enough to get the bulb out of the socket.
Location: Durham,...

How many Emory students does it take to change a light bulb?
That depends.
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Undergraduates: 6,900
Graduates: 5,900
As well as this, students...

How many FSU students does it take to change a light bulb?
2 – one to find a bigger, better light bulb than The University of Florida, and one to change it.
Location:...

Q. How many students does it take to change a light bulb at George Washington?
A. 21 – One to change the light bulb and 20 to start a light bulb-saving campaign...

How many students does it to take to change a light bulb at Georgetown?
Four – one to change it, one to call Congress about their progress, and two to throw the old bulb at the...

How many Georgia Tech students does it take to change a light bulb?
About 230 - ten to conceive new light bulb technology, one to sell it to NASA, 175 to build a new research facility...

How many Hunter students does it take to change a light bulb?
One, but he can do it on the subway on the way there.
Location: Upper East Side, New York
Undergrads: 15, 700
Graduates:...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at JHU?
None - no one changes it. The less competition, the better.
Location:Baltimore,Maryland
Undergraduates: 5,454
graduates: 13,139
This...
How many Kenyon students does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Six. One to screw in the lightbulb, and five to form a search party to find him in the nowhere that is Gambier.
Gambier
Ohio
Undergrads:...

Q. How many LC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Eight - two to organise a cake-bake fundraiser, five to write a song about it, and one to change it.
Location:...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at MIT?
Five – one to design a nuclear-powered bulb that never needs changing, one to figure out how to power the rest of...

Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts
Undergraduates: 2,200
Graduates: 0
The student body is open-minded, diverse, and academically motivated (and it has a large number of international...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at NYU?
Two - one to get the light bulb, one to go to the departmental advisor and see what the advisor thinks is best.
Location: New...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Northwestern?
Two – One to screw it in and one to tell him how to do it according to the manual.
Location: Evanston,...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Oberlin?
Three – one to change it and two to figure out how to get high off the old one.
Location: Oberlin,...

How many Pepperdine students does it take to change a light bulb?
2 – one to change it and one to give the sermon.
Location: Malibu, California
Undergraduates: 3,150
Graduates:...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Princeton?
Two - one to mix the martinis and one to call the electrician.
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Undergraduates: 4,600
Graduates:...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Reed?
Just one, and he powers it on his own brain's energy-output.
Location: Portland, Oregon
Undergraduates: 1440
Graduates:...

How many Rice students does it take to change a light bulb?
4 – one to change it, one to take it out again and claim it for his own college, one to take it out yet again and...

Location: New Brunswick/Newark/Camden, New Jersey
Undergraduates: 38,900
Graduates: 13,600
Admission to Rutgers is tough but nothing like that other famous NJ college (Princeton);...

How many Johnnies does it take to change a light bulb?
16 – one to read Descartes’ famous masterpiece On the Changing of Light Bulbs, and fifteen to form a discussion...

Bronxville, New York
Undergraduates 1330
Graduates: 340
The nightlife stays pretty chilled. Most parties consist of small groups of people gathering in a dorm room - listening...

How many Scipps students does it take to change a light bulb?
16 – ten to set up an artistic team to select the most beautiful light bulb to match the campus, five to publicise...

Undergrads: 2400
Grads: 0
Newsweek recently named Skidmore one of America’s '25 New Ivies', but rest assured, it does not have the ego of an Ivy League. Skidmore is somewhat...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Stanford?
One, dude.
Location: Stanford, California
Undergraduates: 6,600
Graduates: 8,000
This ‘Ivy...

Location: Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Undergraduates: 1,500
Graduates: 0
One of the most competitive schools in the country, Swarthmore only accepts about 15% of applicants,...

Undergrads: 13,650
Grads: 5,900
The town of Syracuse is not the most exhilarating place on earth, but the region as a whole is beautiful, and perfect for outdoorsy types....

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Tufts?
Two – one to change the bulb and one to explain how they did it every bit as well as any Ivy Leaguer.
Location:...

How many Gators does it take to change a light bulb?
If it'll help them win the next football game, you can have as many as you need.
Location: Gainesville, Florida
Undergraduates:...

How many Tulane students does it take to change a light bulb?
1000s – Think of all the relief workers and money from charitable donations! But certainly no help from the Bush...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at UC Berkeley?
2,001 – one to demand his right not to change the bulb and 2,000 to organize the strike in support of him.
Location:...
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at UCLA?
Five - one to change the light bulb and four to find the perfect J. Crew outfit to wear for the occasion.
Location:...

How many University of Chicago students does it take to change a light bulb?
None – a second spent changing a light bulb is a second lost writing your thesis.
Location:...

Location: Athens, Georgia
Undergraduates: 25,000
Graduates: 9,000
Athens is as cool a college town as you could hope for out in the middle of the rural South, complete with...

How many KU students does it take to change a light bulb?
Just one, and if you shine it from the top of the Fraser Building you can see it from the other side of Kansas.
Location:...

Location: Coral Gables (Miami), Florida
Undergraduates: 10,000
Graduates: 5,000
Normally parodied as cliquey, attractive, sports-car-driving, dark-shades-wearing, daddy’s-wealth-relying...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at UMichigan?
Ten – one to change the bulb and nine to act as the Supreme Court to affirm the decision.
Location:...

How many North Carolina students does it take to change a light bulb?
Fewer than those evil Duke students.
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
At “fall fest”...

Location: Notre Dame, Indiana
Undergraduates: 8,400
Graduates: 3,400
A superb private Catholic school in the Middle Of Nowhere, Indiana, Notre Dame has for a long time maintained...

How many USC students does it take to change a light bulb?
None – they don’t bother, it’ll just get broken again at the next party.
Location: Los Angeles, California
Undergraduates:...

How many UT students does it take to change a light bulb?
7 – one to change it, three to choose a local rock band to play for the occasion, and three to argue about the best...

Location: Sewanee, Tennessee
Undergraduates: 1,400
Graduates: 200
Though there is not much beyond the campus (the tiny town of Sewanee, Tenn. is inside the university,...

How many UVM students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Eighteen: Fifteen to form a long distance trekking team to hike through the mountains to the nearest shop selling light bulbs,...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at UVA?
Thirteen - ten to form a student committee to vote on whether changing light bulbs is a violation of the Honor Code,...

How many UW students does it take to change a light bulb?
3 - One to use Amazon to purchase the new bulb, one to make the coffee and one to put the grunge records on the turntable.
Location:...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Penn?
Only one – but he gets six credits for it.
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Undergraduates: 9,900
Graduates: 8,996
Whether...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Vanderbilt?
Two - one to call the electrician and one to call daddy to pay the bill.
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Undergraduates: 6,300
Graduates: 4,800
Situated...

Poughkeepsie, New York
Undergrads: 2,500
Grads: 0
The residential life is one of the best parts of going to Vassar and it provides the familial feel of a much smaller college....

Location: Blacksburg, Virginia
Undergraduates: 23,500
Graduates: 7,200
Although the name might now be forever associated with an awful college massacre, Virginia Tech...

How many Wash U students does it take to change a light bulb?
3 – one to pay too much for it, one to bring it from the East Coast, and one to put the great experience on his...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Williams?
The whole student body – when you’re snowed in, there’s nothing else to do.
Location:...

How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Yale?
None – New Haven looks better in the dark.
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Undergraduates: 5,200
Graduates: 2,300
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