Most beautiful campus

College Search & Selection
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<p>What's the most beautiful college campus you've ever seen in the U.S.?</p>

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<p>Dartmouth, Pepperdine, Duke, and UCLA - all for different reasons.</p>

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<p>A few beautiful contenders: Princeton, Pepperdine, Berkeley, Stanford, Virginia, Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, Sweet Briar, William & Mary.</p>

<p>What do you consider beautiful: Seaside/lake views? Mountains? Tree-lined walks? Large open areas with perfect grass? Gothic buildings? A splash of beauty in the middle of wilderness, or a bubble hidden in the middle of a city?</p>

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<p>Some atypical choices:</p>

<ul>
<li>Northern Arizona University</li>
<li>Embry-Riddle Prescott</li>
<li>Montana State</li>
<li>Colorado School of Mines</li>
<li>Humboldt State</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>University of Utah</li>
</ul>

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<p>In addition to the schools named above, Washington & Lee, Hollins, Sewanee, and Kenyon</p>

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<p>UVA
Indiana
Alabama
Emory
Duke
UNC
Ole Miss</p>

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<p>Many people list only top colleges as the most beautiful, but many less selective colleges are as attractive if not more so. Berry College in Georgia has a truly stunning campus. Really it’s almost more like a national park than a campus. </p>

<p>[Berry</a> #1](<a href=“http://www.occasionsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/board341.jpg]Berry”>http://www.occasionsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/board341.jpg)
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[Berry</a> #4](<a href=“http://cdn1.projectwedding.com/1375585212_4945283.jpg]Berry”>http://cdn1.projectwedding.com/1375585212_4945283.jpg)
[Berry</a> #5](<a href=“http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs30/i/2009/238/2/1/Frost_Chapel_Berry_College_by_robodeath.jpg]Berry”>http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs30/i/2009/238/2/1/Frost_Chapel_Berry_College_by_robodeath.jpg)
[Berry</a> #6](<a href=“http://imagemogul.smugmug.com/photos/371295869_YXTDq-L.jpg]Berry”>http://imagemogul.smugmug.com/photos/371295869_YXTDq-L.jpg)
[Berry</a> #7](<a href=“http://photographyofgrace.com/3dTextures/StockPhotos/buildings/BerryCollegeDairy1.jpg]Berry”>http://photographyofgrace.com/3dTextures/StockPhotos/buildings/BerryCollegeDairy1.jpg)
[Berry</a> #8](<a href=“http://facultyweb.berry.edu/jgraham/mountains.jpg]Berry”>http://facultyweb.berry.edu/jgraham/mountains.jpg)
[Berry</a> #9](<a href=“http://berry.edu/vtour/images/house_o_dreams/2.jpg]Berry”>http://berry.edu/vtour/images/house_o_dreams/2.jpg)
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<p>I’ll join the chorus on Duke; its beautiful campus was a reason I liked it so much. I also really like Rhodes, Sewanee, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, and Kenyon. </p>

<p>As FCCDAD noted, everyone likes something different. For me, a good combination of collegiate Gothic and great landscaping works every time. Unsurprisingly, you won’t find any California colleges like Pepperdine or Stanford on my list of the most beautiful colleges. You can keep the palm trees!</p>

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<p>@warblersrule‌ wow, Berry is gorgeous!</p>

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<p>@warblersrule Wow “berry” pretty. You see what I did there? No? This is why I can’t get into an Ivy League.</p>

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<p>Occidental is surprisingly pretty and lush. UC Santa Cruz is stunning (although I visited during torrential downpours). UC Santa Barbara’s architecture and layout are pretty prosaic, but the setting overlooking the Pacific is spectacular. For the pure academic flavor, it’s hard to beat Harvard Yard or Princeton, and the main “College Walk” at Columbia is also impressive. Berkeley’s sheer magnitude deserves a mention, but my overall vote has to go to Jefferson’s UVA campus. </p>

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<p>Cornell.</p>

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<p>I was thinking of Cornell and Princeton. Some people like USC campus.</p>

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<p>Rhodes, Santa Clara, Denison, St. Olaf are all beautiful in different ways.</p>

<p>Pepperdine has the most stunning location of any school, unless you want the Mountains, in which case Montana State is tough to beat.</p>

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<p>Wellesley</p>

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<p>Geez, can I go to Berry College? That is stunning.</p>

<p>I second University of Chicago, Rhodes and St. Olaf. Another that surprised me with its beauty and cohesion is University of Kansas. It is on a really big hill and it is immaculate. I am not as smart as warblersrule and don’t know how to attach photos, but google it and you can see for yourself.</p>

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<p>Stanford, UC Berkeley, Rice, UCsb the Claremont Colleges, Caltech, USC, </p>

<p>UC Boulder, UofWashington, Northwestern, Princeton, Yale, Virginia, u of the South, UofMiami, Duke and Cornell.</p>

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<p>In the last 23 years, I have visited many university campuses. Those are the ones I can remember having really nice campuses.</p>

<p>Amherst College
Bard College
Berry College
Bryn Mawr College
Colgate University
College of William and Mary
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Kenyon College
Lewis and Clark College
Mount Holyoke College
Pepperdine University
Princeton University
Rhodes College
Rice University
St. Olaf College
Sewanee, The University of the South
Scripps College
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati
University of Colorado-Boulder
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of San Diego
University of Virginia
University of Washington-Seattle
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Washington University-St Louis
Wellesley College
Whitman College
Yale University</p>

<p>However, the most beautiful campus I have ever seen is Cambridge in the UK. </p>

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<p>^^^ No UC in your list, Alexandre? I thought Berkeley deserves to be in that list, biases aside.</p>

<p>Re Cambrdige, If you’ve lived in there as a student, you’d never realize it’s one of the most beautiful places to live and study in. It really isn’t a campus (it’s more like a university town) and the tourists could be annoying to some degree. </p>

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<p>Agreed.<br>
One important element is how the campus relates to it physical setting. Another is how it relates to history. Gothic or Classical buildings in a park-like setting gives you Athens at the base of the Blue Ridge, or monastic learning in the Georgia woods. The effect is not only beautiful but purposeful.</p>

<p>(America’s youth are Muscular Christians and Renaissance Polymaths, by gum. They don’t spend their days lying in the sun waiting for coconuts to fall.)</p>