"The World's Most Beautiful College Campuses" (news item)

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<p>The</a> World's Most Beautiful College Campuses - Forbes.com</p>

<p>In</a> Pictures: The World's Most Beautiful College Campuses - Forbes.com</p>

<p>Video:</a> Princeton's Appeal</p>

<p>Forbes magazine assembled a panel of architects and campus designers to identify some of the world's most distinctive and beautiful college campuses. Princeton and a number of others schools in the U.S. made the list along with many foreign universities. </p>

<p>Personally, while I'm moved by the beauty of the Princeton campus I think this to be one of the less important (but not unimportant) reasons to choose a college. </p>

<p>"Most Beautiful College Campuses"
(in alphabetical order)</p>

<p>Kenyon College
Oxford (UK)
Princeton
Scripps
Stanford
Trinity (Ireland)
Tsinghua (China)
US Air Force Academy
U. of Bologna (Italy)
UC Santa Cruz
U. of Cincinnati
U. of Virginia
Wellesley
Yale</p>

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<p>There’s no doubt that Princeton does have one of the top campuses in the world, but honestly this list is highly suspect. I mean, Cincinnati? Really? I wouldn’t even rank UC in the top 3 of Ohio schools, let alone the whole country or world.</p>

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<p>What? Faber College wasn’t on the list?!?!?!</p>

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<p>Where is Cambridge?!?</p>

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<p>^ It’s in Cambridge, UK.</p>

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<p>No, I meant “where is Cambridge on this list?” …Slightly odd that it’s not included, but that’s a matter of opinion I suppose</p>

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<p>Sorry, I just had to do that ;)</p>

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<p>Princeton is beautiful but oxford is unrivalled. The brits are good at beautiful gothic architecture. The whole of oxford looks like Hogwarts.</p>

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<p>what about cornell?</p>

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<p>Oxford was the one that most impressed me… gorgeous!</p>

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<p>Where is Swarthmore? That college is gorgeous - but I suppose it’s all about the architecture, not the overall feel.</p>

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<p>I agree, I haven’t been to Cambridge myself, but my friend went there and she said it was amazing!</p>

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<p>To be honest it’s what you’d expect: a bunch of American architects and campus designers come up with a list heavily biased to the US (10 out of 14). They call it the World’s Most Beautiful College Campuses but there’s barely a nod to the rest of the world. Where are Cambridge (obviously inferior to Oxford, but even so), Uppsala, Salamanca, Heidelberg, Jagellonian University in Krakow to name but a few?</p>

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<p>@PtonGrad2000, I think University of San Diego (USD, not UCSD) should definitely be on that list!</p>

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<p>U of Cincinnati absolutely does NOT deserve a spot on that list. If any Ohio school were to make it, I would expect Miami University, but certainly not UC.</p>

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<p>@HISbeloved</p>

<p>Just to be clear, this list is not my personal list. It was produced by a group of (probably somewhat biased) American architects.</p>

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<p>@PtonGrad2000</p>

<p>Yes, I knew that:) I only directed it at you so others would know which list I was referring to. Sorry about that!</p>

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<p>excuse me, but where is Cornell?</p>

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<p>where is stanford…</p>

<p>edit: nevermind, missed that first time go round</p>

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<p>Ya, this is definitely heavily biased, but for us applying to the US it is useful. Lets just call it “Most beautiful campuses in the US and other places architects (who are not good at geography) thought were in the US”? Agreed definitely some Asian universities should have been there</p>