<p>Columbia is gorgeous to</p>
<p>Iowa State (ok, I'm biased)</p>
<p>Designed by the designers of Central Park. Land grant, so it's got tons of open space in central campus. Amazing buildings. Not gothic but not super modern. Historic buildings. As of my campus tour a year ago, was ranked "3rd Most Beautiful" behind only Yale and West Virginia (aka Money for improving and Mountains for a backdrop). Call me biased...but yeah that's my pick :)</p>
<p>Oh, and I love UNC-CH.</p>
<p>to Bob07 who said:"Columbia is gorgeous to[o]"</p>
<p>Columbia and Yale are the two best urban universities I can think of. OTOH, you could probably drop Columbia's main campus into the middle of Wesleyan's and still have room left over.</p>
<p>The grounds in Charlottesville can't be beat.</p>
<p>I second Wellesley. I was there for my niece's graduation in 2004 and it's absolutely stunning.</p>
<p>Stanford represent!</p>
<p>I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I attended both Harvard and Columbia and I would rate them as the two least attractive campuses in the Ivy League, with Cornell far and away the prettiest (fd--went there as well). Yale, for an urban campus, is far better than being in Cambridge's chopped up campus amid rushing traffic or Morningside Heights and its lack of greenspace. Dartmouth is hodgepodgy and scattered, and Pennsylvania is pretty enough, although too small to feel like a real campus. Brown and Princeton have their charms, but also fall short when compared with Cornell's 700 acres and open meadows and exceptional vistas.</p>
<p>1) Wake Forest
the rest doesn't really matter that much.</p>
<p>I'd agree that Harvard and Columbia are the two worst campuses of the Ivy League, but some people seem to love city schools; hence the tripling of applications to Columbia in the last 15 years.</p>
<p>I think that's more love/obsession with NYC than cities in general.</p>
<p>from the ones i have visited:
Northwestern university(my favorite)
U of Arizona(the most exotic loved it)
U of colorado boulder(the mountains)
university of washington seattle (beautiful Architecture and breathtaking nature)
Stanford (wooo)
U of chicago ( best Architecture in my opinion i love gothic)</p>
<p>I heard pepperdine is a really nice school</p>
<p>I have to give #1 to Stanford.</p>
<p>stanford looks like tacobell</p>
<p>Cornell - you could take away every building on campus and the natural beauty of the area is striking enough</p>
<p>Hamilton - very peaceful and quiet, I liked it</p>
<p>UArizona - very unique and very well suited for the surroundings. Also rather exotic, but maybe I think so just because I'm an east coast person.</p>
<p>The USMA has a very beautiful campus.</p>
<p>princeton is gorgeous.
cornell is very rural and pretty
stanford is nice if you don't think about how it resembles a taco bell :D
pepperdine is beautiful</p>
<p>Stanford doesn't stand out as a particularly pretty campus to me, I'm not a big fan of all the dirt and eucalyptus trees. It's not ugly, just not pretty, either.</p>
<p>I saw someone mentioned Bowdoin, and I strongly disagree with that. Bowdoin has some really cool buildings, and I like how you can see the change in time periods by the type of buildings that are there, but besides that, I thought the campus was very unnattractive. I love Maine, but Bowdoin just wasn't pretty at all to me.</p>
<p>Of the Maine schools, Colby takes the cake, the campus is beautiful. It looks straight out of a movie. I'm biased, but I also love Carleton's campus, especially with the snow.</p>
<p>^I think I like Bowdoin/Bates over Colby - I really didnt like Colby - all the buildings were basically built at the same time (since the campus was moved from its original location), so its a little too cookie cutter for me and the town (waterville) is horrible. It's definitely not a bad campus though.</p>
<p>Of what I've seen, my top 5 are:</p>
<p>UVA, Davidson, Colgate, Dartmouth, and Wake Forest</p>