What are the prettiest public campuses?

College Search & Selection
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<p>UVA is one of the most beautiful campuses in America. It trounces Umich and especially Berkeley in aesthetics.</p>

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<p>TCNJ's campus is beautiful. Old buildings well maintained mixed with new that blend nicely in style.
Check out their website, <a href="http://www.tcnj.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.tcnj.edu&lt;/a>
The buildings and grounds and manicured flower beds look even better in person. They are just now completing a new library.</p>

<p>Ramapo is supposed to be lovely; best dorms, I've heard (but not seen)</p>

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<p>UVA and W&M are both pretty damn sweet. I hear UNC is nice as well.</p>

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<p>i'll add a voice for UVA and W&M, both extremely nice.</p>

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<p>Berkeley's campus is amazing! Its the oldest campus on the west coast and it is set in the middle of beautiful trees, hills, and has strawberry creek. I have no idea what DMC is talking about, except maybe he's upset that he's going to be stuck in North Kakalaka for the next four to five years.</p>

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<p>The University of Connecticut is simply beautiful. It is quite an attractive campus. I was pleasantly surprised when I visited it last year.</p>

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<p>GentlemanandScholar, you are a funny guy. IMO UVA has one of the nicest campuses around. If you push the back button you will see that a number of people agree with me.</p>

<p>"...he's going to be stuck in North Kakalaka for the next four to five years."
Wow this takes the cake in stupidity. I'm not "sure what you are talking about," but Duke's campus trounces UCB's quite easily. Bringing up where I am going to school does not help your case. Moreover, if I can be so bold as to suggest that you are going to UCB? I take it your on your fifth year there? Well, as you pointed out...I'm headed for Duke. So yes...I consider this battle already over before it had even begun. Haha I still can't get over how you could imply that I am somehow jealous of your Berkeley. I am not impressed and neither were the majority of people at my HS.</p>

<p>Cheers.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.anupshetty.com/images/duke_east/duke_east_gallery.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.anupshetty.com/images/duke_east/duke_east_gallery.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.anupshetty.com/images/duke_west/duke_west_gallery.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.anupshetty.com/images/duke_west/duke_west_gallery.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Yeah, duke's rad! Coach K, woo! You guys sure can play some hoops, and you'd knock the socks out the our team. I mean, going to a school that is has such a great history...at basketball, wow! You must be thrilled. So, do you get free tickets to the games or what, cause that would make the 40k (or whatever it is that you're paying) totally worth it! You should be proud, cause when you think college hoops, you think duke, and thats nothing to shake a stick at. I'll be cheering for you guys come march madness time! Go blue devils!</p>

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<p>Niiiiiiiiice.</p>

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<p>UVA, UCLA, U of Washington</p>

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<p>Berkeley is enviroment-ly pretty, not architecture-ly pretty.</p>

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<p>GORGEOUS CAMPUSES
Indiana University-Bloomington
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Virginia</p>

<p>NICE CAMPUSES
College of William Mary
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-Santa Barbara
University of California-Santa Cruz
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>

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<p>Duke is damn sweet.</p>

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<p>Duke is not public though.</p>

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<p>Santa Barbara is a great location and environment wise, but I feel that the building architecture is fairly bland. One thing that kind of irratates me is the fact that many buildings lack a more Spanish influenced style like the city of Santa Barbara (and just red tile roofs don't count). </p>

<p>It would have been awesome to have a Spanish Mission themed library or something like that. The SAAS building at UCSB is perhaps the most grotesque building I've ever seen in my life:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ucsb.edu/administration/images/saas.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ucsb.edu/administration/images/saas.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>CSU Channel Islands has the right idea about Spanish architecture on campus:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.csuci.edu/images/campus_bt_bldg2.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.csuci.edu/images/campus_bt_bldg2.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Hahah, that was me not reading very well at 3:09 in the morning. I'll have to go with TCNJ then.</p>

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<p>gang-- look at the OP.....all PUBLICS, NO southern or far western schools, therefore no UC's.</p>

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<p>wow hardheaded.....I was at UConn last year as well, & had just the opposite reaction.....I thought the campus was 2nd rate.....a few nice hills, but the architecture, layout, and condition of facilities did not impress me at all.</p>

<p>just goes to show you that its all in the eye of the beholder.</p>

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<p>Marylamd is not the south, so I'd have to say St. Mary's of Maryland.</p>

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<p>DMC, I agree that UVA is prettier than Michigan, but "trounces"? I think not. Michigan is actually more impressive in many ways, only not as uniform or naturally beautiful. But UVa does not have an answer for the Cook Law Quad (Michigan's Law School), Medical Center, Rackham Building, Burton Clock Tower, Football Stadium, Art Museum, Hill Auditorium and engineering campus. Like I said above, UVA's campus is gorgeous (only Indiana and UNC can match it among the publics), but Michigan certainly holds its own.</p>