<p>Princeton does have a very beautiful campus – I live not too far away. It also is a really great town; I would love to live in Princeton after I finish grad school in New York.</p>
<p>Agnes Scott College also has a really beautiful campus – it’s in Decatur, a small city outside of Atlanta. Actually, a lot of women’s colleges have reputations for really beautiful campuses – Mount Holyoke and Wellesley, for some. Emory also has a rather pretty campus.</p>
<p>MIT has some interesting architecture but I wouldn’t say that the campus is pretty/beautiful. It does quite resemble the campus of a government research laboratory like the NIH.</p>
<p>Elmira College (NY) was very beautiful, the old buildings with slate roofs, the landscaping, leaded glass windows in many buildings & fireplaces. One dormitory had rooms with working fireplaces & the fire wood was stacked up outside one of the entrances. It is probably one of the nicest campuses H & I have visited & we have seen many!</p>
<p>Some schools people may not have on their radar which are particularly attractive, or offer a surprise to people who enter their gates:</p>
<p>Furman University, Elon University, Wake Forest University, Washington and Lee University, Sewannee-The University of the South, Vanderbilt University, and Fordham University. </p>
<p>Fordham is a particular surprise, being in the heart of the Bronx. Its next to the world famous New York Botanical Gardens (which Fordham used to own), is 90 acres of gothic buildings, lush green tree lined lawns. Its also adjacent to the famous Bronx Zoo. The school offers programs both at the Zoo and the Gardens. And it is very near one of the largest parks in New York City, Van Cortland Park in the posh Riverdale section of the Bronx.</p>
<p>Oh, I see, enlightened people like yourself agree with you while the ignorant do not. Got it. </p>
<p>One thing I do like about MIT is the ugly stairs in some of the old main buildings. They did raised electrical welds on the stairs to keep people from slipping on the steel steps. It’s butt-ugly but it does work.</p>
<p>I haven’t been to either in a long time, but when I was visiting colleges as a HS student, I thought Williams and Colby both had drop-dead gorgeous campuses. (The fact that a light snow was falling as we drove through Williamstown probably didn’t hurt…). </p>
<p>The school I ended up at, Hamilton, is no slouch either, though the south side (what used to be Kirkland College) is kind of bleh.</p>