Most beautiful campuses

<p>Pretty self-explanatory! I'll start: WashU</p>

<p>Smith! SO beautiful :)</p>

<p>Cornell
Swarthmore
UVA
Duke
(in that order)</p>

<p>I tend to go for nice grounds and Gothic architecture.</p>

<p>Bryn Mawr
Duke
Indiana
Kenyon
Princeton
Rhodes
Sewanee
Swarthmore
WUStL</p>

<p>Others I’ve liked - Chicago, College of the Atlantic, Cornell, FSU, Furman, UBC, Vassar, Wake Forest, Warren Wilson, Washington (UW)</p>

<p>I’ll add this odd thought…a campus is beautiful when it allows one to reach an epiphany and become connected to a larger reality. Perhaps walking through a particular campus and sitting on a bench will provide new and wonderful insights but, also, meeting new and engaging students, discovering new fields of study, leaving a set of buildings thinking differently than when one enters…now that is beautiful.</p>

<p>That describes schools like UVA, Duke, Stanford, Princeton, Kenyon, Rhodes and the University of Chicago very well morandi.</p>

<p>Pomona College
Scripps College
University of San Diego</p>

<p>Pepperdine and ucsb</p>

<p>Iowa State</p>

<p>I think campus beauty is dependent on several factors: architecture, layout, landscaping (e.g. courtyards, pathways), and natural setting. Other factors that play into it are cohesion and continuity (does the architecture vary a lot? Are the buildings juxtaposed in more aesthetically pleasing ways?). People tend to focus only on architecture though.</p>

<p>That said, few campuses do well in all those. Berkeley has a beautiful campus (natural setting, many gorgeous buildings), but it’s a hodgepodge of different architectures. UC Santa Cruz’s campus is amazing, but that’s mainly because of its natural setting.</p>

<p>Other really gorgeous colleges that meet most of the criteria: Stanford, U Chicago, Yale, Princeton, Kenyon, CU-Boulder, Cornell</p>

<p>Schools I think are overrated in their beauty: Harvard, Georgetown</p>

<p>Google it and you’ll come up with a bunch of neat lists.</p>

<p>Of all those that I’ve visited (not many, compared to how many there are), Notre Dame.</p>

<p>Gothic:
BC
Michigan
Washington
Columbia
Penn
WUSTL
ND</p>

<p>Environmentally:
Hawaii
Pepperdine
Colorado College
Middlebury</p>

<p>Urban Trendy:
MIT
Northeastern Univ.
Northwestern Univ.</p>

<p>Huh, since when did Michigan (besides the law quad) or Columbia have gothic architecture? I can’t believe you forgot Princeton, Duke or Yale in the Gothic category.</p>

<p>Middlebury, Duke, Princeton, Dartmouth, Colby</p>

<p>Sewanee is amazing.
Vanderbilt!!!The campus is a national arboretum. It is very beautiful.
Notre Dame is too!</p>

<p>Chapman University has a gorgeous campus.</p>

<p>We visited OU and TCU and those were very, very nice. SMU was amazing.</p>

<p>UC Santa Cruz. I small bit of me wishes I went there. :)</p>

<p>I really liked UNC and Chapel Hill</p>

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