<p>Some of the small LACs are jewel boxes:</p>
<p>Kenyon
Sewanee
Trinity (CT)
Bowdoin
Bryn Mawr
Middlebury
Williams
Agnes Scott
Scripps
Mount Holyoke
Swarthmore
Vassar
Wellesley</p>
<p>Among the bigger schools:</p>
<p>Princeton
Yale
Cornell (I am told)
Duke
Chicago (in an austere gothic way)</p>
<p>And Dartmouth in every season.</p>
<p>But, if I had to pick one, it would be Cambridge in the UK. Most of the prettier US schools are derivative of it.</p>
<p>Richmond, Elon, and Wake Forest have absolutely beautiful campuses for anyone looking in the VA/NC area. Beautiful brick and stone architecture and perfectly manicured lawns and gardens.</p>
<p>UNC Chapel Hill is also gorgeous.</p>
<p>Small LAC's --how can you not mention Colgate? Well post #2 did. As do many other threads on the same topic. It's gorgeous.</p>
<p>UC Santa Barbara
the only university with its own private beach</p>
<p>Pepperdine University</p>
<p>1 vote for CU Boulder</p>
<p>I personally think Stanford is extremely sexy, but that's really the only university I've spent any significant length of time at (several weeks at a summer camp), beyond the college in my hometown.</p>
<p>Honestly, most of the universities you come across look really nice, whether it be for surroundings or architecture or something else. Let's just agree that most places are gorgeous.</p>
<p>Pomona College (one of the Claremont Colleges)Beautiful grounds, fountains, and buildings, a Greek Amphitheater and snowy mountain backdrop</p>
<p>Harvard is just so awesome! The long history throughout the campus.... Michigan, Virginia, and Indiana also have great campuses!!!</p>
<p>danas- "I never would have guessed that those earlier pictures were Stanford. I had imagined a less cramped campus. Maybe my misimpression is due to hearing it called "The Farm". I was sure the pictures were from an urban school- likely in LA."</p>
<p>Well, The Farm is a pretty old nickname, from when it was less compacted. But considering my neighbors house which is 1/4 acre is selling for 4.5 million dollars, Stanford has to make their campus compact.</p>
<p>Bowdoin was by far my favorite.</p>
<p>Carleton isn't too bad. Especially when you consider it has an arboretum.</p>
<p>Yale - gothic wonderland</p>
<p>Saw Occidental recently and was surprised at how pretty it is there.</p>
<p>UC San Diego & UC Santa Cruz!</p>
<p>haha UC Merced by farrr</p>
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<p>Yeah, that must be why the region is inundated with tourist leaf peepers in September and October. Because it's a dreary wasteland.... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Add me to the list who thinks that Stanford looks like a Taco Bell. And Cornell? Seriously? It has one rather monumental quad, and the rest is awfully industrial-looking according to my memory. The art museum is very nice, though: especially the panoramic views across the valley and lake. Clever of them to locate it right on the edge of the Cornell plateau.</p>
<p>Rice
Rice</a> University - Virtual Tours</p>
<p>UCLA and Stanford are beautiful. I also must say Indiana (the brook running through campus is a must see), Illinois (UIUC) and Wisconsin (Madiscon) represent the Big 10 very well. The lake which kisses Wisconsin's campus is sweet. I also liked U of Chicago (gothic cool) and Cornell (Gorges!)</p>
<p>Middlebury is my current favorite. No individual building there is as beautiful as many of the buildings at Chicago or Yale. The beauty is in the total effect of the Vermont setting, the long sight lines between the library and the chapel, the consistent style of the old buildings, and the harmony of the new ones with everything else. Miraculously, Middlebury seems to have run out of money to build anything new during the 3 or 4 decades of bad architecture after WWII.</p>
<p>I've only seen pictures of the Claremont colleges, but the pictures looked pretty darn good.</p>