Ugliest Campuses and Prettiest Campuses

<p>Rice has a sprawling campus.</p>

<p>That could not be further from the truth.</p>

<p>Collegeparent:
I agree with Case being in the middle of Cleveland, pretty much my main turnoff for not going there despite a good scholarship. I like Ohio State (where I'm going) even though it's so big. It's not that ugly IMO especially considering it's in the middle of a city and has the most students out of any college in the world (at least according to them).</p>

<p>Providence College is pretty ugly. URI is decent looking even though it's in the middle of nowhere. Oberlin is decent even though the dorms are pretty outdated.</p>

<p>From what I've seen:</p>

<p>Beautiful:
Swarthmore</p>

<p>Pretty:
BC
Harvard (most of it)
UMCP (for a state school)
Towson U</p>

<p>Decent:
Georgetown
UMBC</p>

<p>Eh:
BU
GW
American
UPenn
Haverford</p>

<p>Out of the ones I've visited,</p>

<p>Prettiest: Princeton, Georgetown, Yale</p>

<p>Ugliest: GW, Penn State</p>

<p>Nicest: Stanford, UCD, UCI, Berk, Santa Clara, Harvard</p>

<p>In my opinion...</p>

<p>Very pretty: Denison, Kenyon, Stanford, Cornell, Brooklyn College </p>

<p>Pretty: Gettysburg, Ohio Wesleyan, Bryn Mawr, Amherst, Vassar College</p>

<p>Moderately: Oberlin</p>

<p>Not so pretty: Northeastern, Brandeis</p>

<p>Gorgeous: Yale, Princeton, Swarthmore</p>

<p>Very nice: Lehigh, Penn (locust walk), Cornell, Dartmouth, Lafayette, Haverford, Bucknell, Penn State, BC, Stanford, UCLA, Dartmouth, Georgetown, W&M</p>

<p>Next, but I still like them: Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, Brown, UPittsburgh</p>

<p>Others I don't like, but I do like some of their locations: BU, GWU, NYU, Wesleyan (didn't click), Rutgers (scattered), Cooper Union (one building), Drexel (orange brick), MIT</p>

<p>It's interesting to see which schools keep getting named as unattractive ones.</p>

<p>Drexel, Georgia Tech, Wheaton (MA), Hampshire, UMass, UMCP, Harvard, SCSU, Georgetown, Brandeis, Chicago, NC State, GWU, and Northeastern each got multiple nods. There were probably others listed more than once, but those stood out.</p>

<p>I am interested in knowing about Carnegie Mellons campus. Could someone share their views on the campus?</p>

<p>Penn is the BEST!!! (biased b/c i go there :)</p>

<p>CMU2009,This is a tour from their web site. We never went, but my coworker is from Pittsburg and she always says how pretty CM it is. (but that may be compared to the rest of the city) Nice photos though, see for yourself.
<a href="http://www.cmu.edu/vrtour/nodes/themall.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cmu.edu/vrtour/nodes/themall.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Prettiest (That I've seen):
Denison, Kenyon, Boston College</p>

<p>Pretty:
Bucknell, Oberlin, McGill (Montreal), U Rochester, Fordham, Vassar</p>

<p>Not bad:
Case Western, Skidmore, SUNY Geneseo, U Michigan, Rochester Institute Technology</p>

<p>Bad:
SUNY Albany, SUNY Binghamton, Alfred U.</p>

<p>It's really comparing apples to oranges, though isn't it?</p>

<p>Best -- Dartmouth, Princeton, Vanderbilt, Pepperdine</p>

<p>Worst -- SUNY Albany</p>

<p>pretty! wagner and qunnipiac!</p>

<p>i dont think drexel is all that bad looking sure they slap a dragon on every other possible thing but its in the middle of philly right in univeristy city so what the heck does u guys expect??</p>

<p>iliveinabigcake: I expect them to at least maintain the buildings they do have, and not leave them looking like garbage. I think that's part of the problem. Also, their frat row is disgusting, even by fraternity standards. If you're going to let your frats have houses on a main street in downtown Philadelphia, at least /try/ to get them to clean up and take care of the houses. They looked like they were absolutely falling apart. It's a terrible impression to leave onlookers with.</p>

<p>Stanford without a doubt was one of the best ones i've ever seen.</p>

<p>Emory is OUTSTANDING.</p>

<p>cmu2009, </p>

<p>CMU's mall is based on UVa's campus. The buildings are Beaux Arts but are made of tan bricks popular to Pittsburgh 100 years ago instead of prettier stone. I really like it but some don't. For an urban campus it's nice.</p>

<p>My favorite urban campus after Yale is Penn. I think Penn (at least the old part of campus...east Locust Walk area near statue) is prettier than Dartmouth, actually by a long shot although I realize most would disagree.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ucsc.edu/about/vtour/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ucsc.edu/about/vtour/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>this is part of the reason why i chose uc santa cruz. actually being there is even better. it's such a beautiful campus plus it's only about 2-3 miles away from the beach.</p>