Last Updated on May 29, 2025 by Matt Staff
Step onto campus back in the wild, unpredictable, turbulent era of the 1960s. Ivy-clad lecture halls were known to echo with riffs from the Beatles and impassioned debates. This collection of 23 vintage photos captures the spirit of college life throughout the ’60s.
1. Nothing like typing out those college papers in the sixties on a typewriter
2. Just some close friends hanging out in college in Texas in 1969
3. A girl big time chilling in her college dorm room in 1967
4. Some students being trained as stewardesses at Miami Junior College in the sixties
5. A college radio station at UMass Amherst in the 1960s
6. The University of Southern California sorority/fraternity car wash back in the early ’60s
7. College party in the 1960s
8. A California college party in 1963
9. College dance party at Fresno, California, in the 1960s
10. A young and very much so in love college couple in the early sixties
11. Jim Henson on his college graduation day in 1960
12. Terry Bradshaw at college in the sixties
13. A young John Lennon pictured at Liverpool Art college in 1960
14. UNC Greeley in the late 1960s
15. Someone’s college roommate’s mom seen with Tom Jones in in Las Vegas in the 1960s
16. Someone’s mom striking a pose back in college in the late 1960s
17. A solid shot of a dance party at Fresno State College, California, 1963
18. This guy didn’t follow the rules in college in the sixties, that’s for sure
19. St. Martin’s College, Holborn, late 1960s
20. A sweet moment captured by a college friend back in the sixties
21. Farah Fawcett at a college dance in the 1960s
22. That American college “Ivy” league look back in the sixties
23. Students at Laney College in Oakland, California, in the 1960s
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Want to see how campus culture changed in an earlier decade? Head straight to our gallery of 20 Vintage Photos Of College Life In The 1940s. Or better yet, check out 20 Vintage Photos Of College Life In The 1970s. It really is always wild to note just how much the world of college has changed over the decades.