<p>The atmosphere of a college or university is a big attribute I will consider when choosing an institution.</p>
<p>What school, in your opinion, has the nicest campus?</p>
<p>Vassar pretty much floored me when I visited.</p>
<p>There is already a thread on this:</p>
<p>There are tons of schools with gorgeous campuses, and tons of schools with ugly campuses. Neither is a reflection on the quality of education offered in either case. Keep that in mind.</p>
<p>No, campus will not affect quality of education, but I do think it's something to look at. You'll be spending four years on this campus, it should at least be decent.
I go to Vassar, and yes, the campus is pretty. However, many of the buildings are pretty from the outside, but rundown inside. I think this is the case with many older colleges. But they've been renovating them, and they have renovated one of our dorms and plan to renovate the others. The dorm I live in is a little dirty, but after a while it just becomes home. The library is really nice with a gorgeous stained glass window, and the music building is to die for. I love looking at it, it's like a castle.</p>
<p>I also hear Princeton is nice. Anyone go there?
Also, Rhodes, Kenyon, and Wellesley I have heard good things about. I also visited Washington University in St. Louis, and I thought they're campus was pretty, but in a different way. They're buildings are newer, but built in an older style. Everything's just very clean, and there are flowers everywhere. It just has that "new" feeling to it.</p>
<p>Kenyon College in Gambier,Ohio is the most beautiful campus that I have visited,but it is isolated in Amish farming area of Ohio. Most beautiful settings include Pepperdine,Univ. of Calif. at Santa Barbara,and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. West Point has a magnificant setting.Princeton University also is beautiful.</p>
<p>I go to Princeton, and what many people like about the campus is how much variety exists in the architecture. I know a lot of people like the collegiate-gothic/ colonial uniformity of some college campuses, but Princeton always gives you something unique and quirky at which to gaze, even if some of the buildings are nicer than others. It is very much like Oxford (so Oxonians say), lots of sidewalks going in every direction, little courtyards between the older dorms, arches everywhere, etc. What is being constructed in place of buildings built in the 1960s will be very clean, modern architecture with lots of open spaces and light. By 2010, there will be a very clearly defined "Old campus" near Nassau Street and a "new campus near Lake Carnegie, both having great architectural merits. People love the Beaux Arts design of some buildings contrasting with the colonial, and the neoclassical, all in the same place. Its a very fun campus.</p>
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<p>Stanford. (10 chars)</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr :D</p>
<p>Pton, Stanford, Vassar, Mt Holyoke in that order.</p>
<p>I, personally, like the type of campus that UChicago has [gothic architecture!].</p>
<p>I love Stanford, Pomona and Princeton</p>
<p>pepperdine</p>
<p>I liked Princeton's and Penn's when I visited.</p>
<p>Indiana University-
It has a forest, Dunn's Woods, in the middle of the campus!!!... and beautiful colonial stone architecture!!!</p>
<p>(not to mention an arboretum)</p>
<p>Stanford and Johns Hopkins are nice too. I like Hopkins parklike setting and Stanford's Mediterreanean Architecture (esp. Memorial Church).</p>
<p>What about Notre Dame? Has anyone seen that? (Not talking about south bend, just the campus itself.)</p>
<p>Caltech is a gem.</p>