<p>One thread I saw was "Top Ten Prettiest Campuses." I decided to make a thread about the least attractive campuses. </p>
<p>List the campuses that you think are the least attractive and explain why.</p>
<p>The SUNY system is an oft-mentioned candidate.</p>
<p>A vote for Arizona State...lots of cinderblock buildings and sand for landscaping. (Of course, when I said this to a senior who was considering ASU, he laughed and said that the buildings didn't matter and the girls were beautiful).</p>
<p>UMass has a smokestack in the middle of the campus, surrounded by recycling bins or whatever...institutionalized buildings and never ending bus routes. Because of my job I've seen about 100 campuses in the past 10 years, and this was the only one I said "WOW" from a negative standpoint.</p>
<p>BU is in a dirty area of boston, and there really isnt a campus to speak of</p>
<p>Despite the fact that I'm from Massachusetts and carry some UMass pride, I would second your opinion.</p>
<p>Drexel- None of the positives of Penn and all of the negatives of city concrete.</p>
<p>Interesting...</p>
<p>Another vote for Arizona State. The campus is disgusting. Very ugly looking buildings (except for the gym).</p>
<p>UCSB's campus is pretty mediocre looking, but the location is amazing.</p>
<p>UCSD has horrible looking buildings, but like UCSB, the location is great.</p>
<p>MIT has a lot of ugly looking buildings.</p>
<p>Worried Student:</p>
<p>i know its off topic...but i like your id....</p>
<p>MIT supposedly looks ugly as booty.</p>
<p>MIT isn't ugly, it is a triumph of desconstructivist Frank Gehry design! (translation: that building is ugly, but expensive)</p>
<p>Mom o Wild Child is right about Drexel though. It's also a perennial winner in Princeton Review's "campus is tiny, unsightly, or both" contest.</p>
<p>I'd heard for years about Eckerd's stunning location in a bay off the Gulf of Mexico, so I made a side trip to see it when I was in St. Petersburg. As advertised, the setting is stunning. Badly-landscaped plywood quonset huts strewn in the midst of a stunning location.</p>
<p>The comments about UMass are interesting. Did they fill in the pond and kill all the ducks and swans or something? Are all the fields built over now? Did the view of the Pioneer Valley mountains ringing the area get blocked? I concur that many, many of the buildings are hideous and/or poorly built and the lack of planning during the big growth spurt of the 60s is very evident, but--at least in the past--I did not find the overall impression to be completely YUCK. (Haven't been there lately, though.)</p>
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<p>I hate the Stata Center - it's a disgrace that, as a tech school, we went with (highly questionable) fashion over functionality - but disagree that MIT is as ugly as people make it out to be. Though it is not to everyone's tastes.</p>
<p>I guess I have bad taste. I don't think MIT is ugly at all. But then, I just like the ambiance of university campuses, and they have to be really horrid for me to find them unpleasant.</p>
<p>The "20" Ugliest Colleges with pictures as posted by the Campus Squeeze: The</a> 20 Ugliest College Campuses in the USA - A List of all Ugly Colleges</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon comes to mind, as does U. Pittsburgh. Yeah, Pittsburgh as a whole is pretty much ugly.</p>
<p>Stony Brook got left off the SUNY list on the above link. It is actually nice now.</p>
<p>Kent State isn't too attractive.</p>