<p>Northeastern is much more attractive than crummy Boston U. Seriously, what a terrible campus Boston U has. Unless you wanted us to rank on un-attractiveness too.</p>
<p>^ I highly disagree. Sure, northeastern may have a more traditional "Campus" feel than BU. But BU is far from being un-attractive.. the BU beach is really nice and for an urban school, it's def. on the top of my list.</p>
<p>BU doesn't have an unattractive campus... it just doesn't have ANY campus.</p>
<p>I think BU has a really neat campus for an urban school. I haven't seen the new editions though</p>
<p>Yale
UChicago
Harvard
Emory (beautiful park)
Rice
BU-- a very nice campus, I thought.
Vanderbilt (was this on the list? Oh, well. Nice place.)</p>
<p>For a campus, Commonwealth Ave. at BU is very busy--kind of the 'ahhhhr-tery' of the school, if you will. But Bay State Rd. (between Comm Ave. & the Charles River) is kinda what we expected. Brownstones, definitely an urban New England feel, very neat.</p>
<p>UMiami is more suburban than urban, and just a gorgeous environment. Quiet, spotted with palm trees, a lake in the middle of campus.</p>
<p>I liked GW's campus. I like the whole urban feel, and the good location. It doesn't have as distinctive campus as say, AU, but it's exclusively located in The Foggy Bottom neighborhood, so it does have a campus: Foggy Bottom. GW pretty much makes up Foggy Bottom except for a few buildings, so I feel like it's fairly obvious if you are on GW territory or not. I liked AU's campus slightly more, but I felt that it wasn't in as good of a location(not as much to do).</p>
<p>Emory is really nice! It's probably the most beautiful campuses in the US. However, traffic is a pain in the arse, I hear.</p>
<p>As a GW graduate I have to admit it is not much to look at on first glance but you learn to love it fot its location. They have also done a lot landscape wise with some very small spaces.</p>
<p>Anyway you folks have left off a truly stunning urban campus - Northwestern, way nicer than U of Chicago and a much better neighborhood. Spectacular lakefront campus. Of course I was there is August not January.</p>
<p>maybe its just because im southern, but to me, nothing beats tulane, emory and miami. the weather here is amazing.
miami is not dirty like many people think..UMiami is gorgeous and really a paradise with cool clubs and beautiful people.
atlanta is fantastic too with tons of colleges in the city.
in new orleans, there is always something cultural to do. </p>
<p>i like the south because from growing up in the north, moving here is great, and in my opinion, a great way to spend 4+ years.</p>
<p>patuxent-- sorry for leaving off Northwestern. It is nice. BUT, I do strongly disagree about it being either nicer than UofC or in a nicer neighborhood. UofC is one of the most astonishingly beautiful campuses I've ever seen, I think second only to Yale. And Hyde Park has such fantastic energy, and you can just feel the tremendous vibes coming from the university community-- I much prefer it to Evanston.</p>
<p>Well all I know is if you go a block or two south of UofC or a block or two west and you are in some really shaky territory. I took the East 63rd Cottage Grove elevated down from the loop with my wife and son in the midle of the day and the Transit cops told me under no circumstances should I attempt to walk to UofC. They said get off the train, wait at the bus stop, and ride the bus. I said but it is only a few blocks and they said they didn't want to have to pick or bocies up.</p>
<p>I thought they were exaggerating and mistaking us for some rubes from Iowa or Newton, Mass. but I wasn't on that train long before I knew they probably were not joking. I've lived and worked in some pretty shaky inner city neighborhoods. The kind where you routinely hear gunshots at night but the South Side of Chicago these days makes the South Bronx look appealing.</p>
<p>Anyway if you are talking intellectual energy then I agree with you UofC has it over almost anyplace. It isn't as they joke, "The place where fun went to die!" That would be Johns Hopkins.</p>