Prettiest campus

College Search & Selection
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<p>I've been visiting a bunch of schools in north Carolina and Virginia the last couple of days! What are y'alls favorite campuses on the east coast? So far I think university of Richmond is beautiful but I wanted to see what other people thought too!</p>

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<p>why even post this thread when you know that Princeton has the prettiest Campus</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt University is pretty beautiful and picturesque…it was designated as an national arboretum :)</p>

<p>I may be biased though…</p>

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<p>Sewanee and Vanderbilt</p>

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<p>Notre Dame is beautiful! Not on the east coast, but it’s gorgeous there! :)</p>

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<p>Sewanee, Princeton, Notre Dame, Duke, Vanderbilt, Yale, Pepperdine, Kenyon, Rice, and Stanford are the top 10 most beautiful campuses in some order in my opinion.</p>

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<p>I haven’t been to a lot but of the ones I’ve visited I think Cornell and UVA are the prettiest</p>

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<p>Princeton isn’t even in the top 10. It’s got some pretty buildings and a nice town setting, but as a campus it is not particularly cohesive. </p>

<p>Vanderbilt is nice, but there’s only so much you can do with brick that Thomas Jefferson hasn’t already done.</p>

<p>Sewanee is great. Rhodes is better ;-). A couple of colleges in florida have amazing locations. </p>

<p>Thank goodness no fool has said “Harvard”…</p>

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<p>Richmond is insanely beautiful, but a bit too small for my taste. I thought UVA and Wake Forest were also incredibly nice.</p>

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<p>Wake Forest, UVA, UNC, Duke are all beautiful</p>

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<p>Rollins College, in Winter Park, Florida has a gorgeous campus. No, it’s not Notre Dame, which I think is stunning, but it is quite lovely and has beautiful weather year round.</p>

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<p>Swarthmore is lovely.</p>

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<p>UVA, IMO, is the prettiest on the southeastern side of the US. Jefferson’s rotunda and the Georgian architecture are incredibly impressive. I’m not crazy about schools that don’t have uniformity in their architecture. For example, at many schools we visited, the buildings were predomiantly Gothic, but then there was this 1960s contemporary eyesore that was thrown in and it stuck out like a sore thumb. Even in all the many new dorms built and other new buildings, UVA’s developing committee has remained dedicated to maintaining consistenty in its architectural style. I also love the surrounding area. It’s nestled in the mountains, and you have the foliage in the fall, the dogwoods blooming in the spring, and an occasional light blanket of snow in the winter (not too severe). It’s no wonder UVA is the only college campus in the world that’s designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.</p>

<p>I would say other notable eastern schools include Duke, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Boston College. On the west coast, Pepperdine wins by a mile, and in the central part of the US, the nod goes to Vandy and Sewanee. SMU, OU, and possibly Rice would be on the list for the southern beauties.</p>

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Princeton would make my top 10. Not my #1 spot, though – that goes to Berry College. Its lovely mix of Gothic and rustic architecture coupled with over 25,000 acres of pristine woodland is amazingly gorgeous. </p>

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<p>Most of the women’s colleges (especially Bryn Mawr and Wellesley), Warren Wilson, Vassar, Colgate, and Furman have very beautiful campuses as well. Boston College looks pretty from pictures, but regrettably I’ve never visited. I second many of the suggestions already made (namely Rhodes, Sewanee, Duke, Swat, Wake, and Kenyon). </p>

<p>Beyond the east coast, I liked Lewis & Clark and Wash U. No California school would crack my top 20, though some of them have very beautiful locations. I’m too fond of Gothic architecture and big leafy trees; Pepperdine and Stanford were lost on me, unfortunately.</p>

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<p>I’ve loved wake and richmond and UVA was definitely pretty but not my favorite. I’m visiting UNC tomorrow so I’ll definitely put my opinion in afterwards!</p>

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<p>Ah, CC is obsessed with Gothic architecture. I find it pretentious; it’s unashamedly attempting to copy Oxbridge, and southern universities in particular seem out of place when they use Gothic architecture (mainly because they don’t feel “historic,” so the architecture just seems really pretentious).</p>

<p>It’s funny how much collegiate architecture has a religious history. Gothic architecture, of course, is a very religious symbol, but even the Spanish architecture common throughout California is based on the Spanish missions, which were religious centers for spreading Christianity.</p>

<p>Many people don’t think much of Harvard’s campus, but I think Georgian architecture is pretty, quaint, and reflective of the colonial era in which it was built (therefore unpretentious). Neoclassical, Renaissance, and Romanesque architectures are also very pretty and unpretentious. Cornell is quite beautiful for both its architecture and its landscape. New College of Florida is beautiful as well.</p>

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<p>Threads like this repeatedly fail to distinguish btwn “pretty” as in architecture and pretty as in picturesque scenery/environs.</p>

<p>Many schools have one or the other, few have both.</p>

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<p>I personally thought UVA was bleh. The brick looked run-down and I didn’t like the campus.</p>

<p>UNC’s campus is gorgeous though.</p>

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<p>The prettiest campus I have been to was Kenyon. Also nice here in Ohio - Denison, Miami U. & Wittenberg.</p>

<p>Re: architecture and scenery, Kenyon has both! Gothic castles, hills, trees and a charming village in Gambier.</p>

<p>Denison also is lovely all around but not as breathtaking.</p>

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<p>On the east coast UVA and on the west Stanford.</p>