for the architecture, Yale or University of Chicago.
for the architecture, Yale or University of Chicago.
Virginia tops the list, with Stanford and Princeton certainly in the top 5 with it.
Obviously depends on individual tastes.
For me, among the ones I've seen, it would be Harvard. I love the gates with their inscriptions, the brick buildings, the trees, the Charles River.
I know others who love Stanford, UVa, Amherst, many others.
This is a good list: http://www.thebestcolleges.org/most-beautiful-campuses/ , but forget the rank ordering. Many college campuses are essentially interchangeable, copying each other, and some beautiful places are missing, such as Williams College (far nicer than Amherst, which is on the list) and Florida Southern, the only campus designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It is hard to rate the places with very nice pastoral settings as high as those with spectacular natural surroundings (e.g. tall mountains, the Pacific Coast). And it is also difficult to rate the relative importance of architecture and setting. Urban campuses like Yale and Chicago have some great architecture but do not rate on natural settings.
UVA? No.
Pepperdine, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara are top 3.
Then Florida, UVA, Clemson, Florida State, Miami in that order.
Schools north of Mason Dixon line are disqualified because of nasty winters and fat girls.
A lot of the smaller New England schools like Williams are lovely, but I liked Middlebury best.
agree with UC Santa Cruz and UC Santa Barbara, gorgeous.
U of Colorado in Boulder is nice, too. The Flatirons are a beautiful backdrop.
Stanford is a bit overrated IMO...Palm Drive/The Oval is beautiful though.
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UVA? No.
Pepperdine, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara are top 3.
Then Florida, UVA, Clemson, Florida State, Miami in that order.
Schools north of Mason Dixon line are disqualified because of nasty winters and fat girls.
You're rating strictly on T&A.
Pretty much. You'll see the most at those schools, beautiful scenery.
Duke University, if you like Yale but think it should have a more scenic setting. For that matter, most of Yale's campus except for the central downtown campus is outside of downtown New Haven proper and surrounded by greenery and parks.
ACC person wrote:
Pretty much. You'll see the most at those schools, beautiful scenery.
You'd have to throw U.Tex in that mix somewhere near the top if that's your criteria.
Rutgers.
T.. Boone Smithereens wrote:
I would imagine Pepperdine and Hawaii would finish high. So too probably would Virginia. I visited Princeton and Notre Dame and both those were very beautiful.
University of Virginia, as much as it pains me to give them credit :)
Others that come to mind- Princeton, University of Miami (FL),
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...
Sewanee: The University Of The South, Tennessee
Indiana University/Bloomington in the fall > everything
I have never been to Pepperdine, but from everything I have heard / seen it deserves to be on this list.
UVA is gorgeous in its own way due to the architecture.
I always found the beauty of Duke over-rated. Nice? Yes. One of the most beautiful campuses in the country? No.
Cornell is awfully nice if you include the Cornell Plantations as part of campus.
I will also put in a plug for High Point University in NC. It is a completely different type of beauty - it looks very man-made, with all of its fountains, but still quite nice. The interior of the newer buildings could pass for 5 star hotels.
Bucknell may be worth mentioning for being a patch of really beautiful campus in an otherwise dull area.
can't believe no one's mentioned ucla yet--not on the beach in malibu like pepperdine, but i'll take the architectural variety and layout any day. i was impressed with syracuse's beauty, though i don't think i'd like the winters...
Dirty Jerz wrote:
Rutgers.
No doubt. Rutgers University #1
Dartmouth, Yale, Amherst and Smith