Weight vest wrote:
Rutgers Newark
I laughed out loud when I read that
Weight vest wrote:
Rutgers Newark
I laughed out loud when I read that
college visitor wrote:
dio wrote:
Stanford looks like five Taco Bells built alongside each other. Are people serious when they say Stanford?
Agreed. I've ran at Stanford a few times and there campus doesn't look beautiful. I think there campus is probably the most ugly I've ever been too, I guess I just don't like that architectural style.
Notre Dame I wouldn't put near the top either. The buildings on their campus look pretty nice. But everything is so spread out that I would find it hard to rate it high. I don't get why you would want any green space on a campus. Cluster all the buildings as close as possible and keep the green space adjacent to the education part of campus.
I don't think anyone mentioned Wash U. I think that is the most beautiful campus I have been too.
LOL....Stanford ugly? You have lost your mind!
Notre Dame spread out...? What? Half the buildings on campus, people live in. Students are required to live on campus for 6 semesters, which many just stay on for all 4 years. The campus isn't that big. If you think Notre Dame is spread out, then I assume you have never been on most Big Ten campuses. What person wouldn't want any green space on their campus? If you want buildings clustered close together, try a school that is land locked in the middle of a major city and the founders didn't plan for expansion. Try Texas, most of the buildings are only 15ft apart from each other. I guess you would love UIC (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) no green spaces.
Cornell or Miami (FL)
347893 wrote:
college visitor wrote:
Agreed. I've ran at Stanford a few times and there campus doesn't look beautiful. I think there campus is probably the most ugly I've ever been too, I guess I just don't like that architectural style.
Notre Dame I wouldn't put near the top either. The buildings on their campus look pretty nice. But everything is so spread out that I would find it hard to rate it high. I don't get why you would want any green space on a campus. Cluster all the buildings as close as possible and keep the green space adjacent to the education part of campus.
I don't think anyone mentioned Wash U. I think that is the most beautiful campus I have been too.
LOL....Stanford ugly? You have lost your mind!
Notre Dame spread out...? What? Half the buildings on campus, people live in. Students are required to live on campus for 6 semesters, which many just stay on for all 4 years. The campus isn't that big. If you think Notre Dame is spread out, then I assume you have never been on most Big Ten campuses. What person wouldn't want any green space on their campus? If you want buildings clustered close together, try a school that is land locked in the middle of a major city and the founders didn't plan for expansion. Try Texas, most of the buildings are only 15ft apart from each other. I guess you would love UIC (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) no green spaces.
Large sprawling campuses have nice lawns but when the buildings are so spread out it doesn't feel like a community. It's often a long walk from the main part of campus to the town so they are often completely separate. My favorite university town is probably Cambridge (UK). Instead of one large campus there are a number of separate and self-contained colleges interspersed throughout the town. So it feels like the town is almost part of the university and vice-versa.
I'm not a big fan of Stanford either. I actually prefer USC because it is more coherent and better integrated with a common architectural theme. As far as a college in a beautiful natural environment, I will go with UC Santa Cruz. It feels like you are in a national park. If all of the buildings were removed you would still be in a forest with redwoods. And there are some fantastic trails starting from right on campus.