<p>I loved Notre Dame and Northwestern. I would agree with 2-iron about Northwestern; not always the most beautiful buildings, but the campus is just stunning. Everything was bright green with plenty of trees and ivy. Notre Dame was also super green, and the architecture is beautiful.</p>
<p>rjkofnovi- I'm extremely biased when it comes to IU. I love Purdue because I live in Indiana, and purdue's biggest rival is obviously IU. However, IU does have a very nice campus, especially in the fall. I did like Georgetown better than it though.</p>
<p>Nice college campuses....</p>
<p>Michigan State University
University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
New York University
Cornell University ( including the one in Ithaca, I was very impress by the pictures I've seen of it)</p>
<p>Haven't seen that many campuses yet to say more, although others I have in mind are many of the Big Ten schools.</p>
<p>I haven't visited a whole lot of campuses, but here are my favorites in "nicety," in no particular order:</p>
<p>a. Swarthmore
b. Bryn Mawr
c. Michigan Tech University
d. Rose-Hulman</p>
<p>Swarthmore
Princeton
UVA
Quinnipiac</p>
<p>Hmm, definitely Stanford, Brown, and USC would be at the top of my list.</p>
<p>RICE.... Omg, beautiful!!! I visited this weekend</p>
<p>Stanford has got to have the best campus then:</p>
<p>Princeton, Duke, Rice, UVa, Berkeley, Chicago, UCLA, Williams and Columbia.</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr
Dartmouth
Haverford
Princeton</p>
<p>i'm surprised yale isn't on this list more.. it's absolutely gorgeous. granted i've only seen a few colleges (yale, harvard, mit, and columbia) a long time ago when my brother was visiting colleges, but yale is definitely prettier than all the rest of the schools by far.
i'm pretty sure it wins the best architecture in the country award all the time</p>
<p>I don't think Yale looks all that great walking or driving by-but when you walk into the gates of the various Residential colleges, it is quite wonderful.</p>
<p>Eckerd- if you want to live on the beach.
I thought Susquehanna, Bucknell & Lycoming looked great.</p>
<p>Some of my favorite campuses(of the schools that we've visited), in no particular order...</p>
<p>Penn State
Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
Brown
Skidmore
Muhlenberg</p>
<p>Based upon my skimming of this thread, I'm really looking forward to our upcoming visits to Emory and IU.</p>
<p>North Campus at University of Georgia is the classic college campus. Two hundred year old oak trees line a series of quadrangles of mostly antebellum, mostly red brick buildings fronting on downtown Athens, the classic college town. It is particularly beautiful in autumn when the leaves change colors and late spring when dogwoods bloom. South Campus looks like a sprawling federal research facility, however.</p>
<p>Washington & Lee's campus is similar to Georgia's North Campus.</p>
<p>Point Loma University's low, flat-roofed California style buildings are nestled among a series of hills along the Pacific Ocean coast at San Diego. Idyllic on cool, sunny days of early summer.</p>
<p>Colorado College in Colorado Springs has a very large campus for a school of its size with broad lawns surrounding very college-like buildings all within sight of Pike's Peak. Beautiful year round.</p>
<p>Mercer University's law school campus sits atop tree-lined Coleman Hill overlooking the city of Macon, Georgia, and adjacent to the restored antebellum Overlook Mansion. The law school is in a replica of Independence Hall. Like Georgia, best when the leaves are changing or the dogwoods blooming.</p>
<p>For a more westerly prosective check out:</p>
<p>Scripps
Occidental
Santa Clara
UC Santa Cruz</p>
<p>UC Santa Barbara.</p>
<p>and Northern Arizona University</p>
<p>In order from prettiest to "worst"</p>
<p>Notre Dame
Georgetown
Northwestern
WashU
Catholic U of America
Mizzou
Penn
Villanova
Michigan
Wisconsin</p>
<p>Occidental is a beautiful campus with Spanish style architecture. Vassar is also, in an austere, gothic way. Bard is a beautiful setting with funky, mixed architecture. As an alum of Penn, I can vouch for the fact that it truly has a campus and College Green can give almost any campus a run for the money. NYU is beautiful in that it is continguous with Greenwich Village- one of NYC's most beautiful neighborhoods....</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Georgetown University</p></li>
<li><p>UPenn</p></li>
<li><p>University of Virginia</p></li>
</ol>
<p>The colleges I visited from prettiest to worst...
WashU
Penn
Princeton
Yale
Dartmouth
Cornell
Michigan
Harvard
Brown
Northwestern
Columbia
MIT
U of Chicago</p>
<p>Other colleges that I don't know how to include in order (LACs)
Bowdoin
Amherst
Williams
Hamilton
Colgate</p>