Most scenic campuses + lots of grass to run on.

Last month I visited some friends who are faculty and students at Mahasarakham University in Thailand.

I had some really nice runs on the dirt farm roads surrounding the campus. Not grass, but just nice soft dirt roads in the surrounding forests and farm lands. Mahasarakham is about 6 hours by bus from Bangkok.

If you want to do something really different, and also see more action that Wilt Chamberlain, consider a semester away from the USA. The female/male ratio is about 70/30 and they are all super friendly Esaan gals. (Northeast Thai gals)

www.msu.ac.th/eng/

Enjoy.

Jason

Hard to beat the University of Georgia. Athens, GA is the most beautiful college town in the US, or in the top 5. They have miles of trails right on their campus. The Intramural fields are adjacent to a state park and you can run for at least an hour out there w/o doubling back. The scenery is awesome with a lake, pine trees and coeds.

leo, how you been? still running after that great marathon in brockton all those years ago? living on the island? damn leo, it has been a while, what have you been up to? thanks for checking in.

Ya, still rcovering from biking back from Bolivia and just took time out from my banjoing - trying to get the bridge correct on "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"

What is this "dusty snatch" you speak of? It's been a while since I graduated, and I wasn't a member of the team, but I've logged many a mile around town.

Oregon? Quite the boring campus if you ask me.

Princeton Review Annual College Rankings Names Pepperdine University The Most Beautiful Campus

https://www.pepperdine.edu/pr/releases/2005/august/princeton.htm

Tons of trails near the campus: Malibu State Park, Zuma and Trancas Canyon State Park, Point Mugu State Park, and Topanga State Park isn't too far away either. Malibu Bluff Park is close by and Point Dume Park isn't too far either.

There is a huge amount of grass out infront of the school. Deer eat it up lately but a lion was seen eating one of those deer and either another lion or the same lion was killed by a car crossing Las Virgines Canyon next to the campus this past week.

'my school's better than your school!'

hand-wringing, teeth gnashing.

I love these threads

Here's some lists that look legit.

Unlike I love peeps, who seems to have randomly put together a list of large DI schools.

http://encarta.msn.com/college_article_beautifulcampuses/Top_10_Beautiful_College_Campuses.html

http://www.college-admission-essay.com/top10beautiful.html

1. Pepperdine University

2. University of Hawaii, Manoa

3. Princeton University

4. Harvard University

5. University of the Pacific

6. Yale University

7. Wellesley College

8. Hofstra University

9. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

10. College of William and Mary

I hate peeps wrote:

Here's some lists that look legit.

Unlike I love peeps, who seems to have randomly put together a list of large DI schools.

http://encarta.msn.com/college_article_beautifulcampuses/Top_10_Beautiful_College_Campuses.htmlhttp://www.college-admission-essay.com/top10beautiful.html

1. Pepperdine University

2. University of Hawaii, Manoa

3. Princeton University

4. Harvard University

5. University of the Pacific

6. Yale University

7. Wellesley College

8. Hofstra University

9. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

10. College of William and Mary

So, basically, there are no universities outside the USA, right???

Dartmouth, most beautiful place to run in America, if you don't mind the cold/snow.

(# Not from your list of schools)

1) great scenery & weather

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#UC San Diego - The most beautiful women, scenery, and weather for any campus that I\'ve been to.

U. Cal. Santa Barbara

2) O.K. scenery & weather

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Stanford

Oregon

U. Cal. Berkeley

3) disgusting humidity or disgustingly cold

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U. of Texas

Clemson

Kansas

N.C. State

LSU

Rice

Florida State

Kentucky

Tennessee

Michigan

Princeton

U. of Alabama

U. of Virginia

4) Never been there

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Miami (FL)

U. of Florida

5) Not Recommended

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U. of Southern Cal. - Your\'e going to get your balls smashed by L.A.P.D. If you think that are you are immune because you are White, records show L.A.P.D. summarily beats the crap out of Whites often too.

Harvard?? You have got to be kidding, did they pay for the ranking out of their endowment?

MAYEROFF wrote:

So, basically, there are no universities outside the USA, right???

You expect a guy who has never been outside of his mothers basement to know what's going on outside of the country?

Ohio University is a beautiful campus with lots of place and parks with trails for running!

dude, seriously give up the dope. it's completely fried your brain if you think 80% of these a nice campuses. stupidist list i've ever seen. it's like you sat down and listed the 20 schools you could think of. it's people like you that got clinton elected.

BBJ wrote:

but since i'm posting anyway, i'll nominate university of maryland.

You really need to do some traveling if you think UMD is anywhere near the top of the list, especially when it comes to grass running.

I've never thought Purdue was much better than average for running and I doubt it belongs on a top 20 list, but the CC course and hort park trails are nice. I also like the good number of relatively low traffic country roads right off of campus.

MAYEROFF wrote:

So, basically, there are no universities outside the USA, right???

So, you're saying not only should someone have seen all the universities in the US, but all the universities in the world, in order to make a list?