<p>Which university do you think has the best campus?</p>
<p>In terms of modernity/prestige/ beauty/size and other factors.</p>
<p>theres already a very long thread on this- search for it.</p>
<p>Modernity? The ugliest campuses out there are the ones that embrace "modern" architecture. Prestige doesn't seem an appropriate term for a campus. And size doesn't matter (at least that's what my scoutmaster told me). Maybe you could focus on just beauty, in which case Notre Dame, Furman, Dartmouth, Indiana U, Cambridge U (England), Virginia.</p>
<p>i tried searching for it, 34 pages of results might anyone know a quicker way?</p>
<p>I looooooooooved Rochester's campus.</p>
<p>definitely URochester! :)</p>
<p>Dartmouth and Yale and Stanford are the 3 that i like the best architectually.</p>
<p>CUNY-Brooklyn College actually ranked at the top of some lists I've seen. It really is pretty sharp.</p>
<p>Princeton, UChicago</p>
<p>Yale and Pepperdine</p>
<p>Among the top schools...</p>
<p>...MIT gets slammed, but it looked ok to me.
...Michigan is VERY uninspiring. Berkeley only slightly better.
...Penn gets raves, but the photos I've seen don't look even mediocre (what gives?).</p>
<p>...Boston U has the single ugliest building I've ever seen (the one on the upper right of photo #7 at co11egecircles.com).</p>
<p>lsu is really nice</p>
<p>Yale, for two reasons.</p>
<p>The architecture itself - Yale has the most expensive campus buildings ever built, largely in the 1920s and 30s (although many are older), as the result of the largest bequest of money any university has ever seen, in today's dollars. There is fancy ironwork, glasswork, ornate wood paneling and sculpture everywhere. Also, Yale has the #1 architecture school in the world and a long tradition of world-famous buildings - just search the web for Paul Rudolph or Louis Kahn. Yale's A&A building was the "Bilbao" of its time.</p>
<p>More importantly, though, Yale is my favorite campus design in terms of the scale, which is unlike any other place in the United States in how it relates to the pedestrian. Yale's undergraduate dorms are all within a block or two of each other, which no other major university can claim. This makes Yale's campus life so much stronger than any other place I've seen, because everyone can walk to their friend's dorms in a matter of minutes. At Harvard, for example, the dorms are much more scattered than that. Also, all of Yale's more lively cultural facilities (including the music, law, art, drama and architecture schools and the two major art museums) are located just adjacent to all of the undergraduate dorms. Also, the college town surrounds the campus and is very lively, with hundreds of shops and restaurants.</p>
<p>In terms of quiet, rolling campuses that have a more spread-out feel, Princeton and Wellesley are also very pretty, from an architectural standpoint. Even with the science center at Wellesley being incredibly ugly :) Cornell, too, although it's too spread out for my taste. I also liked Auburn and Indiana Bloomington. UCSC and UW-Seattle probably have the best "views".</p>
<p>Scripps College</p>
<p>texas tech and baylor have beautiful campuses. especially tech's spanish rennaisance architecture</p>
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<p>you've gotta be kidding right?</p>
<p>law quad? the grad? angell hall? the diag area in general?</p>
<p>Then the woodsy north campus, arboretum, etc.</p>
<p>Michigan is not that bad, but I'd say Indiana is better. </p>
<p>The Diag at Michigan is very nice, and the area by the law quad. I also like the main drag through Ann Arbor, with the used bookstores. The North Campus, however, is awful. To the point where if I were interested in engineering, music, architecture or one of the other programs housed up there, I would do almost anything to go somewhere else for college.</p>
<p>boston college</p>
<p>could be biased...but Duke is rather nice</p>