please only rank campuses you have personally visited:
Boston U
Boston College (albeit right outside Boston)
Harvard (Cambridge/Boston)
Yale (New Haven)
Brown (Providence)
Wash U (St. Louis)
Emory (Atlanta)
Tulane (New Orleans)
Rice (Houston)
Penn (Philly)
Columbia (NYC)
U Texas (Austin)
U Miami
USC (LA)
UCLA
Johns Hopkins (Baltimore)
Loyola (Baltimore)
NYU (NYC)
Georgetown (DC)
Fordham (NYC)
GW (DC)
American (DC)
UChicago
<p>Yale
Harvard
Rice
Brown
UT Austin</p>
<p>Providence is hardly urban, yo.</p>
<p>umm...Providence is very urban...its the 2nd largest city in New England, yo.</p>
<p>azneverfrost: You're right.</p>
<p>Retract that.</p>
<p>Harvard
Brown
Rice
Yale
Hopkins
Emory
Wash U
NYU
GW
American</p>
<p>Yes, I really have been to all of those. They are VERY different types of campuses so this list shows a definite bias of mine. I don't want a campus that doesn't have rolling lawns and trees, etc. Which is why i liked Harvard, Brown, Rice, etc, but not NYU, or GW which don't really have campuses at all.</p>
<p>Yale
Penn
Georgetown
Boston College
Harvard
Columbia
JHU
BU
NYU
GWU</p>
<p>yes I really like Penn's campus. and Yale is #1 by a mile imo</p>
<p>Yale
Harvard
UChicago</p>
<p>(haven't been around much :p)</p>
<p>one person ranked yale more attractive than harvard and rice, another ranked harvard more attractive than rice but rice more attractive than yale. i guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder... also the season/weather at the time of campus visit may affect ones impression.</p>
<p>IMO, Yale has the most impressive looking campus but New Haven is a horrible small city. Columbia seemed like a cold, unfriendly campus. Boston College was nice, but didn't seem urban enough to suit my tastes. Penn, by contrast, seemed too open to the public. Johns Hopkins seemed just urban enough: off a major city street, in the city but somewhat sheltered with a country club like aura (a lot more grass than Columbia). NYU GW and BU are sidewalk schools. Harvard had a nice historical campus and a great location. I have not seen Rice...</p>
<p>From the ones that I have seen personally:</p>
<p>Yale (New Haven)
Harvard (Cambridge/Boston)
Columbia (NYC)
UChicago
Penn (Philly)
Georgetown (DC)
Brown (Providence)
Boston College (albeit right outside Boston)
USC (LA)
UCLA
Boston U
Johns Hopkins (Baltimore)
American (DC)
NYU (NYC) (not really a campus)
GW (DC) (not really a campus)</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Yale (New Haven)
Harvard (Cambridge/Boston)
Columbia (NYC)
Penn (Philly)
Wash U (St. Louis)
UChicago
Brown (Providence)
Georgetown (DC)
Emory (Atlanta)
Rice (Houston)
Boston U
Boston College (albeit right outside Boston)
Johns Hopkins (Baltimore)
USC (LA)
UCLA
NYU (NYC)
GW (DC)
American (DC)</p>
<p>UChicago
Georgetown (DC)
Boston College (albeit right outside Boston)
Harvard (Cambridge/Boston)
Boston U
U Miami
GW (DC)</p>
<p>The only one of those I've seen is Columbia. I found it lovely: all the buildings were old and pretty. It had a nice feel to itcalm, pretty, but still urban. I can't take being away from civilization for too long. And by civilization, I mean a city with over 2 million people.</p>
<p>NYU is really nice to me. Its in the village, so it has that artsy feel to it, its just good energy. Granted its in the street. There's no "campus" so u have to be looking for that enviroment. If you really want New York, then u will prefer it to Columbia.</p>
<p>Yale
Penn
Columbia
Brown
Berkeley <--- DEFINITELY URBAN.
Harvard</p>
<p>I'm not gonna rank them, but I'll comment on the ones I know about.</p>
<p>Boston U (totally non-existent campus. basically, the entire city is the campus.)
Boston College (I don't really like it, but I know those who do. Very catholic).
Harvard (Really really nice. Nothing else compares to Harvard.)
Yale (Beautiful, beautiful campus. Although New Haven itself is a really boring town.)
Brown (Never been).
Wash U (Quite nice, I think that St. Louis is a very underrated city).
Emory (Never been).
Tulane (Never been).
Rice (Never been).
Penn (Very, very nice. Totally overshadows any other university in the city.)
Columbia (Very charming and nice. The only school in NY with a distinctive campus, I think).
U Texas (Similar to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Austin is the best intellectual hamlet in the South. The campus itself isn't really anything special, but it's not ugly.)
U Miami (Never been).
USC (Kind of ugly, and in a bad neighborhood. A pretty big turnoff, I think.)
UCLA (Nice, but ohh-so-crowded).
Johns Hopkins (The campus itself is pretty gorgeous. Just don't leave the campus without a gun).
Loyola (I assume you mean Maryland? It's really really pretty, and I wouldn't consider it an urban campus at all.)
NYU (See Boston University).
Georgetown (Very similar to Hopkins, except in a much nicer neighborhood. Much less urban than GW).
Fordham (See USC).
GW (Much more distinctive campus than BU or NYU. I like it a lot, but I've heard of people who don't.)
American (UUUUUGLY campus, except for the 100s of ceramic panda bears that were there when I visited. I'm not sure if they're still there.)
UChicago (Never been).</p>
<p>PENN is beautiful. Enclosed with lawns and all that creates a campus feel but smack in a real city. Columbia very nice as well. Harvard is beautiful but is Cambridge really a city? Seems like just an extension of Harvaed with some upscale shops. Not really urban. For true urban BU and Georgetown are nice. BU seems more urban on the surface as a major street runs through it, but walk a block onto the rest of the campus and it flows along the Charles River, has blocks and blocks of brownstones with gardens, and a huge new "Student Village" area with lots of green space and a Lazy River. NYU really has no campus to speak of but what an interesting environment.</p>
<p>American
NYU
GW
Georgetown</p>
<p>Not that I necessarily think AU is gorgeous, but the fact that it has a campus and is centered mainly around a quad is a big plus in my book.</p>
<p>Also, poolio10, the pandas were there for some unknown reason, though I'm 99% sure they aren't there anymore. They're still all around DC, though. When the party animals (like the pandas, but donkeys and elephants that were all around DC) were on campus it was because DC didn't want them getting hurt from World Bank protests.</p>
<p>Penn (gorgeous->Locust Walk...)
Rice (I'm a Houstonian)
Columbia (felt too crowded, I dunno I don't like the NYC feel)
UTexas (meh. It's a party school)</p>
<p>WELL when I lived in Chicago my parents were like "Jake, don't go to Hyde Park after dark" and it rhymed so I obeyed it, haha, but UChicago is in Hyde Park....so, just an obervation...</p>