<p>What's the most beautiful college in the world? Which college has the most beautiful/unique campus? Which college has the most beautiful buildings?</p>
<p>Post awesome looking, beautiful, or unique campuses. Go!</p>
<p>PRINCETON REVIEW.... NOT FOR THE WORLD, BUT FOR THE U.S.:
Quality of Life Most Beautiful Campus </p>
<p>Based on students’ rating of campus beauty</p>
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1 Pepperdine University </p>
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<p>2 Princeton University </p>
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<p>3 Sweet Briar College </p>
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<p>4 Agnes Scott College </p>
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<p>5 Sewanee- University of the South </p>
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<p>6 Mount Holyoke College </p>
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<p>7 Scripps College </p>
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<p>8 Kenyon College </p>
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<p>9 Loyola Marymount University </p>
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<p>10 University of California-Santa Cruz </p>
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<p>11 Wellesley College </p>
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<p>12 Elon University </p>
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<p>13 Colgate University </p>
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<p>14 Warren Wilson College </p>
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<p>15 Vassar College </p>
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<p>16 College of the Atlantic </p>
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<p>17 St. Mary's College of Maryland </p>
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<p>18 The College of New Jersey </p>
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<p>19 Swarthmore College </p>
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<p>20 Washington and Lee University</p>
<p>Quality of Life Dorms Like Palaces </p>
<p>Based on students’ rating of dorm comfort</p>
<p>School Name Save Apply Request Info<br>
1 Smith College </p>
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<p>2 Bryn Mawr College </p>
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<p>3 Loyola College in Maryland </p>
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<p>4 Pepperdine University </p>
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<p>5 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering </p>
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<p>6 Pomona College </p>
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<p>7 Scripps College </p>
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<p>8 Agnes Scott College </p>
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<p>9 Mount Holyoke College </p>
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<p>10 Wellesley College </p>
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<p>11 Claremont McKenna College </p>
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<p>12 Sweet Briar College </p>
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<p>13 Webb Institute </p>
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<p>14 Whitman College </p>
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<p>15 Washington University in St. Louis </p>
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<p>16 Bennington College </p>
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<p>17 Bowdoin College </p>
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<p>18 Williams College </p>
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<p>19 New College of Florida </p>
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<p>20 The George Washington University</p>
<p>use the search function.</p>
<p>there are several other threads on this topic</p>
<p>scripps, definitly</p>
<p>Wellesley, Yale, Oxford and Princeton are the four most beautiful in the world.</p>
<p>Of all the schools I have visited, the University of Cambridge in England is the most beautiful. It really has not peer. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.pbase.com/compuminus/cambridge%5B/url%5D">http://www.pbase.com/compuminus/cambridge</a></p>
<p>'Nough said!!!</p>
<p>In the US, I really like Colgate, Cornell, Princeton, Swarthmore, UVa and Yale.</p>
<p>^Incredible photos. It is amazing what you can do with several exposures combined -- obviously the buildings don't <em>always</em> look that good :) I may have to edit my list above to include Cambridge, though, after seeing those photos (I've been there, but didn't appreciate it as much as Oxford).</p>
<p>Oxford is pretty gorgeous too. I would say Cambridge is nicer, but Oxford is more beautiful than any US campus. To me, what makes Cambridge so beautiful are all the rivers, ponds and bridges on campus.</p>
<p>Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, and Univ. of San Diego are amazing!</p>
<p>I would add UC-Santa Cruz among California campuses. Stanford is very nice, but for some reason, I find it sterile and un-academic...very country-clubish! Duke is also beautiful, but gothic architecture in a North Carolina climate and environment doesn't seem right!</p>
<p>University of the South is also gorgeous.</p>
<p>There was a thread that went on for a while about this; here's the link <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=209483&highlight=Calx%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=209483&highlight=Calx</a></p>
<p>I've never seen Berkeley's campus myself (looking forward to it this Fall :)), but from the pictures linked to in post 10 in the above thread, it's gorgeous! :)</p>
<p>Michigan is very pretty, but I wouldn't place it above Indiana.
UC-Santa Cruz is another contender, for sure, based on views (not buildings), as is UW-Seattle.</p>
<p>UChicago's got a lot going for it. Chicago itself is a beautiful city, and the campus is neogothic, with a little bit more flavor than a lot of other campuses I visited. Some photos from Flickr:</p>
<p><a href="http://flickr.com/search/?q=University+of+Chicago%5B/url%5D">http://flickr.com/search/?q=University+of+Chicago</a>
<a href="http://flickr.com/search/?q=Midway+Plaisance%5B/url%5D">http://flickr.com/search/?q=Midway+Plaisance</a>
<a href="http://flickr.com/search/?q=Botany+Pond&m=text%5B/url%5D">http://flickr.com/search/?q=Botany+Pond&m=text</a>
<a href="http://flickr.com/search/?q=Lake+Mic...de+Park&m=text%5B/url%5D">http://flickr.com/search/?q=Lake+Mic...de+Park&m=text</a></p>
<p>Again, "beautiful" is so, so, so subjective, but other schools that have wowed me with campus and setting include Colgate, Wellesley, and Haverford.</p>
<p>Here's an interesting one for you : Clinton County Community College (NYS)</p>
<p>Rhodes College has very beautiful buildings and a nice campus</p>
<p>Two of my own issues re: "campus beauty":</p>
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<li>There's a difference between a beautiful campus and a beautiful location. For example, I would never use the word 'beautiful' to describe Pepperdine's actual campus. Clean and functional, yes. Modern and sleek, yes. But put it in any other location and it might look a little like a [religiously oriented] business park. As it so happens, however, it sits on a hill with gorgeous 180+ degree ocean views. So while the campus itself is very, very nice, and perhaps even 'beautiful' in a very modern sense of the word, it always seems a bit misleading to include it on these lists(although the view is so wonderful that it would seem equally misleading to leave it off). </li>
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<p><a href="http://bschool.pepperdine.edu/images/newsevents/presskit/Pepperdine_University.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://bschool.pepperdine.edu/images/newsevents/presskit/Pepperdine_University.jpg</a>
<a href="http://www.wellho.co.uk/slideshow/Pepperdine%20University%202.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.wellho.co.uk/slideshow/Pepperdine%20University%202.jpg</a></p>
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<li>Some campuses are beautiful in whole while others have beautiful areas. For example, Berkeley has some wonderful areas...streams, woods, dramatic architecture (and if you lean really far off the law school balcony, you can see the ocean and the Golden Gate! ;)). But it also has some very plain and even ugly areas, so opinions might differ just based on tour routes. I can think of a number of schools like this (I don't mean schools that happen to have one small eyesore, which I imagine most do...I mean schools where the ratio of 'amazing' to 'blah' is at least moderately significant).</li>
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<p>Just two thoughts that always strike me in these threads. Some of the pictures that have been posted have still been breathtaking...thanks to above posters for sharing them!</p>
<p>Wow. Check this out:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hawaii.edu/HIMB/images/mmrp1.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.hawaii.edu/HIMB/images/mmrp1.jpg</a></p>
<p>It's the University of Hawaii's Institute for Marine Biology. Imagine going to school on that!</p>
<p>Yup, this topic has definitely been addressed before, however, I'd be happy to throw my two cents into this particular thread. I've visited mainly LACs in the Northeast and a few in the South. I'd rank the colleges I've visited on a scale of beauty in this manner: </p>
<ol>
<li>Vassar College</li>
<li>Amherst College</li>
<li>Swarthmore College</li>
<li>College of William & Mary</li>
<li>College of Charleston</li>
<li>University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill</li>
<li>Haverford College</li>
<li>Connecticut College</li>
<li>Brown University</li>
<li>Trinity College</li>
<li>Ursinus College</li>
<li>Harvard University</li>
<li>Yale University</li>
<li>Dickinson College</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Franklin & Marshall College</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>University of Rhode Island</li>
<li>Clark University</li>
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<p>The last time this thread was started I remember Cornell University being in the top 10.</p>