Most Beautiful Campus?

Parents Forum
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<p>My favorites fall into three catagories:</p>

<p>Red Brick/Georgian: Miami University (Ohio) and University of Alabama</p>

<p>Limestone/Gothic: Notre Dame and Indiana University</p>

<p>Southwest Style: University of San Diego</p>

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<p>Glad to see Virginia Tech mentioned. I also love the Hokie stone, the mountains,the Drillfield. Virginia has great public schools with beautiful campuses-UVa, Virginia Tech and William and Mary are all lovely.</p>

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<p>arisamp</p>

<p>My son had the same criteria: pretty campus nearish or in a good city with good aid.</p>

<p>He applied to</p>

<p>UChicago
Penn
Columbia
Fordham (good merit aid, otherwise expensive BUT lovely lovely campus at Rose Hill)
Northwesterns
Tufts</p>

<p>They all fit the bill for the NE/MidWest.</p>

<p>If you are from California UCSD, UCD, UCSF, UCLA are all lovely
Georgetown, Northeastern, UWSTL, Tulane, Villanova</p>

<p>There are so many nice campuses that fit the bill. Its great he has some criteria to go on…you need something to help whittle down the list!</p>

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<p>arisamp: Emory (Atlanta), Vanderbilt (Nashville) and Wash U (STL) come to mind and are peer schools of a few you mention, with beautiful campuses in warmer locales (maybe Wash U is not so much warmer).</p>

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<p>Among urban universities: McGill University in Montreal. Downtown location but a fairly green campus climbing up Mount Royal. Beautiful in the summer and after a big snowfall. (Not so much now as it is mud season.)</p>

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<p>Many campuses are nice, but the best I have seen are:

  1. Indiana - Bloomington. the central campus area with limestone buildings, scattered around slight hills, mainly walking areas. Out by stadium not so great.<br>
  2. Miami - Oxford. uniform georgian brick arch, even new buldings, ie farmer school.<br>
  3. Notre Dame - Gothic.</p>

<p>I dont understand why many people think Wisconsin is so nice, other than the nearby lake. Seems too much cement and traffic.</p>

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<p>Another vote for St Olaf. And since it hasn’t been mentioned yet, and suprisingly, Iowa State.</p>

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<p>I have had several people mention the beauty of Iowa State’s campus over the past few days. (We were just in Iowa City.) I had no idea!</p>

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<p>UCSB…yes, some of the buildings loudly proclaim their military heritage (was once a military facility) but…with the Pacific on three sides and the Santa Inez mountains on the other it is breath taking. We visited a student in her dorm. She has a view of the sunset that most Million dollar condo dwellers could can only aspire too. </p>

<p>When the sun is setting on the pacific and the mountains are glowing…it’s hard to remember you are not on Maui.</p>

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<p>cama is right. I had never heard of Salve Regina, but the post piqued my curiosity. Holy Crap! Before seeing pictures I would have said Rhodes, but I think the winner is clear.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.newenglandmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Salve-Regina-University.jpg[/url]”>http://www.newenglandmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Salve-Regina-University.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Surprised no one has mentioned Mount Holyoke…gorgeous in all seasons.</p>

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<p>My vote goes to Dartmouth. Every time I visit I fall more in love with the campus. It is beautiful, from the green to the river.</p>

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<p>UC Santa Cruz, Bowdoin, University of Puget Sound, LSU. </p>

<p>Do not understand the positive feelings about Stanford; they even have a building known as UGLY.</p>

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<p>Cornell and Duke are gorgeous! So is U of Chicago and Sarah Lawrence and Colgate!</p>

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<p>What I like about this thread is that it really shows the importance of aesthetics to giving a sense that college is a sanctuary for learning. And it’s not only the CC favorites that make the list of beautiful campuses.</p>

<p>Two more that I think are lovely are Texas State in San Marcos and Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. Both have pretty old buildings up on a hill.</p>

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<p>I’ll list of couple of campuses rarely seen on lists. UNCG - Greensboro NC. The mall down the center of campus is really beautiful. I had no idea until we visited because you can’t see that part of campus by car. I also think that the quad at JMU is beautiful and very representative of everything a campus quad should be. Otterbein is also lovely, particularly with snow on the ground.</p>

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<p>Smith College, designed by Frederic Law Olmsted, granddaddy of American landscape architecture. It reveals itself as you walk it, with wide vistas opening up as you round a corner or follow a footpath. The twists and turns are surprising and delightful.</p>

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<p>I agree about Dartmouth. If you held tryouts to hire a campus to play the role of Beautiful New England College in a movie, Dartmouth would get the part.</p>

<p><a href=“http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/09/08/us/08dart-600.jpg[/url]”>http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/09/08/us/08dart-600.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>ek is right (#3). UW in April is breathtaking.</p>

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<p>Lots and lots of beautiful campuses.</p>