<p>Of the ones I"ve seen</p>
<p>Southwestern
Davidson
Hamilton
Allegheny
Sewanee
Rhodes
Carleton</p>
<p>Worst - Texas A&M</p>
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<p>Seconded. Had to go there for graduation...what a dump.</p>
<p>Ahahaha.. my dad went there. It's like a sprawling citadel.</p>
<p>From a guy who's seen 324 of them:</p>
<p>Colgate
UNH
UVA
Dartmouth
Hanover
Princeton
Bucknell
Susquehanna
Pepperdine
Cornell</p>
<p>Where's the city love????</p>
<p>Princeton
Cornell
U Penn
Yale
UCLA</p>
<p>Hmm...I haven't seen that many campuses actually.</p>
<p>Cornell
Yale
Princeton
UC-Santa Cruz
Stanford
UC-Santa Barbara
Williams
Pepperdine</p>
<p>Duke, Princeton, Middlebury, Colby, Yale</p>
<p>Union has a beautiful campus. It is what you picture when you think of a northeastern liberal arts college.</p>
<p>I heard that Harvard was extremely beautiful (though I haven't visited yet). </p>
<p>If schools in Canada counts, UBC is also very, very beautiful. I've lived there before and it's got all you would possible want of ocean/mountain/forest activities.</p>
<p>There's already like 4 huge threads on this. My vote goes to Vandy, Montana, or UC-Boulder for the more common schools. I don't know why LACs get so much appreciation on this site. Some of the Ivy's are gorgeous too, but it's hard to hard to separate them from each other.</p>
<p>I really liked Grinnell's campus. I have a love for Midwestern colleges and Grinnell wore its Iowa location with pride. I visited in early fall and native prairie flowers bloomed in fat hedges all across campus. The buildings were full of light, very open, and framed with tall, colorful grasses. The colors were all harmonious-- pinks and sandstones and pale oranges, dusty green and light purple, easter-egg yellow and cream. The grass was well tended and the gingko trees were conveniently situated to shade open areas. It didn't try to be a gothic-and-ivy-draped university. It was content to be Midwestern through and through.</p>
<p>That said, I also like Macalester's campus. Small, compact, and leafy.</p>
<p>I like Carleton's campus too, since it has the Arb, a Japanese garden, and an island in the middle of the campus pond. And a really sweet looking astronomical observatory.</p>
<p>Has anyone seen University of Richmond? I heard that's really beautiful.</p>
<p>University of San Diego is breathtaking.</p>
<p>Kenyon and Vassar are gorgeous.</p>
<p>Denison University. It's fabulous. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Sons.</p>
<p>I never understand how Stanford make so many's list. It has a few pretty parts but compared to other schools, I don't think it's great at all. And UCSB has more ugly buildings then I could count. So what it has a very unspecial little beach! Harvard isn't pretty either.</p>
<p>My favorites:</p>
<p>Dartmouth
Wellesley
Princeton
Middlebury
Cornell</p>
<p>"1. Pepperdine
2. University of San Diego
3. UC Santa Barbara
4. San Diego State
5. UCLA"</p>
<p>Definitely agree with these 5.....I've been to all of them and they are awesome. The University of San Diego and Pepperdine are both INCREDIBLE campuses. The two most amazing campuses that I've ever seen (and I've probably seen about 40-50).</p>
<p>not in any order:</p>
<p>Lewis & Clark
Wellesley
Pepperdine
Bates
Hobart & William Smith
West Point (USMA)
University of Washingon-Seattle
Mount Holyoke
Middlebury
Lehigh (beautiful campus in an ugly city)</p>
<p>To Mintie who said she/he heard the Harvard campus was extremely beautiful, though unseen. Just my opinion, but these lists are populated mostly by campuses with three attributes:</p>
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<li>Age = abundance of classic, old buildings</li>
<li>Wealth = keeps classic, old buildings maintained and allows, shiny new buildings to be constructed</li>
<li> Broad scenic landscape, lush lawns, groves of trees, rolling hills, etc.</li>
</ol>
<p>Harvard has #1 and #2, no doubt, but is severely lacking in #3. It's mostly an urban campus with a Harvard Yard being a little green gated park in the middle.</p>
<p>the university of richmond (U of R) campus is really pretty, but there are a lot of parking lots cause it's a commuter school since they have the school of continuting studies program there... but it really is pretty... gothic cathedrals and such... </p>
<p>and then I'm biased to my ED school (that I got into) which is AU because it is in D.C. but Northwest and in the middle of a beautiful upperclass residential neighborhood; the campus is something you would find in a suburban school close together and lots of flowers; the quad is really cool, no impressive buildings, but it's just a nice atmosphere for a city college.</p>