RE: Which university has the most beautiful campus?

Dartmouth #1

Agree with Princeton; Middlebury; UCLA; Duke

Not mentioned should include Columbia; West Point; Air Force; Annapolis; Coast Guard; Stanford (Olmstead); Chicago

Underrated: Bronx Community College; MIT; Norwich

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Architecture: Yale

Sea coast view: Pepperdine

Overall: Virginia

Vanderbilt is easily the prettiest I've seen.

Azaleas wrote:

What do you guys see in UChicago? It just seems like another urban campus. The whole mood there is always kind of depressing, too. Definitely not the first school that comes to mind under "beautiful campus".

Agreed. Great academic school, but blah, not special looking. My sister and her husband worked there for 10 years because it was top 3 in their field. Eventually they went to greener pastures...literally.

I actually think the University of Washington can be quite pretty. Many of the buildings have an old European look but mix in well with the tall firs around the campus which still give it a distinct Northwest Look. In the spring when the cherry blossoms are out on the quad...WOW!! I recall a view of Mt. Rainier where you look down a long grass corridor with old buildings and trees on either side and the snow covered mountain is framed in the middle with a huge fountain next to it. You can't get a view like that too many other places.

tribe wrote:

Almostbq wrote:

University of Virginia, as much as it pains me to give them credit :)

UVA isn't even the most beautiful campus in VA. William and Mary tops them. So does Richmond...

That is most true. In fact, I would rank VT's campus over UVA's.

BGuyJMilleniumXII wrote:

Georgia Tech, most aesthetically pleasing university on the East Coast.

Not hardly. Right in the middle of d-town Atlanta. Campus is decent, but not great.

molasses runs faster than me wrote:

I actually think the University of Washington can be quite pretty. Many of the buildings have an old European look but mix in well with the tall firs around the campus which still give it a distinct Northwest Look. In the spring when the cherry blossoms are out on the quad...WOW!! I recall a view of Mt. Rainier where you look down a long grass corridor with old buildings and trees on either side and the snow covered mountain is framed in the middle with a huge fountain next to it. You can't get a view like that too many other places.

UW's campus is attractive, no doubt. Unfortunately however, it's surrounded by city blight and there's a noted lack of greenspace compared to some of the ornate East Coast campuses.

Cambridge

Oxford

Durham

Royal Holloway

Paris-Sorbonne

Padova

University of Cape Town

and some US campuses are quite pretty, too.

RuKiddingMe!! wrote:

Sewanee: The University Of The South, Tennessee

Another vote for Sewanee. Place is unreal.

Romney Manuel wrote:

What about UC Long Beach? I've never been there but my friend raved about it, said it was literally right on a sandy beach.

um, no. not near beach, not pretty, not at all. 1950s and later concrete in a boring suburb.

Furman looks like a golf resort. Cleanest and nicest landscaped campus in the South for sure.

Another vote for Durham. Though, it was my alma mater, so I might be biased !

Sewanee looks beautiful too though.

I study colleges so I have been to hundreds. Here is my list but not in any order

1. Dartmouth

2. Harvard

3. Cornell

4. Bucknell

5. Virginia

6. Miami (Ohio)

7. Ohio University

8. Denison

9. Indiana University

10. William & mary

11. Furman

12. North Carolina

13. Wake Forest

14. Stanford

15. Pepperdine

16. Swarthmore (Pa)

17. Georgia

18. Notre Dame

19. UC-Santa Barbara

20. UCLA

I'd go with

1. Dartmouth - the platonic ideal of eastern colleges

2. West Point - incredible location on a point in the middle of the mighty hudson. There is something magical about how the massive stone buildings work their way up the hillsides. Plus the history of the place gives it an aura. Cohesive architecture.

Also rans: Cornell, Yale, unless you have to count New Haven,princeton, except it has no real center. Obviously Oxford and Cambridge.

Mt. St. Mary's is #1 by far... built into a mountain with buildings at the base of the mountain too. Nothing around for miles either. Quinnipiac is another beautiful campus that I think is much better looking than Princeton.

Professor Frink wrote:

I haven't seen them all but Cornell University is gorges, er, I mean gorgeous.

I totally agree.

Notre Dame? Beautiful? Da fuq?