<p>Best time to visit would be the worst season of the area. Example: in the south, it would be summer. In the north, it would be winter. Reason being, if you go during the worst and still like the school, you'll love it even more when you actually live there.</p>
<p>And I agree with Rice and UChicago being the most beautiful.</p>
<p>colby was one of my favorites</p>
<p>UVA, W&L, georgetown, dartmouth are the best i have seen.</p>
<p>From everything i've seen, Stanford and UVA take the cake by FAR. UConn also has a VERY pretty and improving campus with some of the most gorgeous buildings ive seen, as does BU.</p>
<p>UCSB, University of Miami, UCLA, UCSD, and SDSU</p>
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<p>Mmmm...I couldn't agree more. With the wind blowing the orange and brown leaves off the trees, walking past beautiful buildings that are hundreds of years old in the warm Virginia sun, off to gorgeous Scott Stadium to get our butts kicked by you yet again. ;) We'll get you one of these days, Tech!</p>
<p>At least we threepeated you in basketball! :P</p>
<p>Really if you want to see a beautiful campus visit Stanford's. The university is simply breathtaking and not just the developed part of it either...</p>
<p>In no particular order off the top of my head and I'm sure I'm forgetting a number of schools:</p>
<p>Schools with spectacular settings:</p>
<p>University of Washington (Lake Washington, Mt. Ranier, the Cascades, the Olympics, Puget Sound)</p>
<p>UBC (much the same as UW)</p>
<p>UC Santa Cruz (built in a forest where you cross ravines on the way to campus. Some dorms overlook a cliff and the Pacific)</p>
<p>Univ. of Colorado Boulder (Rockies, Flatirons, Italianate architecture, Boulder itself)</p>
<p>Vassar (the campus is an arboretum)</p>
<p>Swarthmore (see Vassar)</p>
<p>Pepperdine (Malibu)</p>
<p>University of the South/Sewanee (smack in the mountains)</p>
<p>Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs, Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak)</p>
<p>West Point (lovely view of the Hudson River and valley)</p>
<p>Virginia Tech (lots of mountains)</p>
<p>Northwestern (Evanston has lovely old trees, the campus has large green areas, a view of Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline)</p>
<p>Western Washington University (Bellingham, green all around, Mt. Baker)</p>
<p>Most beautiful campus:</p>
<p>University of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson at his best, and that's pretty good)</p>
<p>Claremont Colleges (green spaces, varied architecture, lots of shade)</p>
<p>Stanford (Spanish and gorgeous)</p>
<p>William and Mary (Christopher Wrenn)</p>
<p>Sweet Briar (enormous parklike setting)</p>
<p>Chicago (dreary, dreary, dreary in the winter, but stunning when the sun is out)</p>
<p>Dartmouth (makes me want to say "boola boola" every time I'm there)</p>
<p>Princeton</p>
<p>Duke, Princeton, Middlebury, Dartmouth, Colby, Kenyon</p>
<p>Check this pic out, guys.</p>
<p>I agree that a beautiful picture biztogo.Here's one quite different but no less beautiful: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Stanford_campus_aerial_photo.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Stanford_campus_aerial_photo.jpg</a></p>
<p>yeah chicago has gotta be one of the best</p>
<p>Nice pics of UBC, cowgirl. I love the Erickson-designed building, he's one of my favorite Canadian architects.</p>
<p>Stanford's campus looks like a very posh country estate of a California tycoon, which is really what it is. Very impressive to many, not as much to others...</p>
<p>Rice's campus is quite nice, but not spectacular. </p>
<p>Among large universities, Colorado and Wisconsin always get raves.</p>
<p>Princeton does the English/neo-tudor look pretty well, but some credit should be given to campuses that have tried to usher new esthetic foundations and did so succesfully instead of just trying to emulate Oxbridge. Virginia, Colorado and Berkeley are good examples of this.</p>
<p>so many of these schools are gorgeous, but it has to have the right feel for an individual to be the "most" beautiful campus. For instance, I looked at some of those pictures for U of C and they pretty much took my breath away, but then i thought how amazing intimidating and cold they would look to me in the winter, but that is just me, I could totally see how some would argue it's being the most beautiful school (at least in the US). </p>
<p>SO, for me, I have to put my bid in for UVA...and semiserious, you have some gorgeous pictures! everyone should google it and find some pictures from all seasons though, it is beautiful all year round. Once again I've reaffirmed how much I want to go there :)</p>
<p>Wow...AMAZING pictures...</p>
<p>the BEST campus?</p>
<p>drum rolls......................................</p>
<p>THE</p>
<p>University</p>
<p>of</p>
<p>Virginia.</p>
<p>Designed by Thomas Jefferson.</p>
<p>Forget about googling, I'll post the links for UVA's lighting of the lawn pictures:</p>
<p>with snow: but terrible picture.</p>
<p>There are a lot more cooler ones with snow, can't find them now.</p>
<p>Superwizard: I love Stanford campus too.
Actually, I like a bunch of others, too. UVA, Yale, Princeton, Pepperdine...</p>
<p>However, among them, UChicago campus looks more like Hogwarts campus where Harry Potters live and study. Period.</p>
<p>Those are beautiful pictures, but while we're Wiki-ing...</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lawn.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lawn.jpg</a></p>
<p>I've never been a big fan of the gothic look, it depresses me. I prefer bricks and ivy and collonades, as is probably evident by my love of UVa's campus. But I'll stop for a moment to show off another of my favorite college campuses, University of Richmond.</p>
<p>And yeah, the lake really is right in the middle of the campus. That last pic is a bridge you cross, with a little gazebo on it, to get from one side to the other. It only takes like a minute to cross, but it's gorgeous.</p>
<p>Oh--Untitled--here are pictures from the Lighting of the Lawn when it snowed. They are BREATHTAKING. :)</p>
