<p>Please rank these school by how nice the campus is. Feel free to add some schools. By the way, these are in no particular order.</p>
<p>Princeton
Yale
Duke
Emory
Brown
UPenn
Amherst
UChicago
University of Florida
Wesleyan University
Stanford
Georgetown
Columbia</p>
<p>add VATech</p>
<p>Did you ever consider that this is rather subjective depending on what someone wants architecturally, geographically, etc…</p>
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<p>Bingo. To each his own.</p>
<p>Exactly. It depends on what factors add up to “nice” for you.
Comparing Amherst and Penn alone…those campuses will appeal to very different people.</p>
<p>I’ve been to UC Santa Cruz and can attest to its stunning beauty. Each one of its colleges has its own architectural theme and each one of them masters it perfectly.</p>
<p>I am just asking opinion. This is not for my college search.</p>
<p>No, you’re trying to cause conflict and argument. Wise up.</p>
<p>Wow. There is no shortage of cynics on College Confidential.</p>
<p>And there is no shortage of people who want to “rank” everything for their own twisted sense of pleasure.</p>
<p>Give Anonymous1993 a break. I think this seems like a fun post.
My favorite is Yale. I really like the campus there. After that is…
Princeton
UPenn
Stanford
Duke
UChicago
Brown
Emory
Amherst
Georgetown
University of Florida
Wesleyan University
Columbia</p>
<p>seriously, in answer to the OP’s question, the only <em>objective</em> way to compare a lot of campuses to which you’ve never been nor can afford the expense of traveling to is to use the “bird’s eye view” [click on “aerial” in the drop-down box] feature on Bing maps. It’s a wonderful piece of techno fun and quite useful for comparing surrounding areas as well as the campuses themselves:
[Bing</a> Maps](<a href=“university of pennsylvania - Bing Maps”>university of pennsylvania - Bing Maps)</p>
<p>I’ve only been to two on your list:</p>
<p>Stanford: utterly uninspiring, suburban sprawl feel, flat (which is great for biking around), too much unimproved bare dirt for my taste. Spanish on the cheap (not much tile work).
Yale: beautiful architecture, compact</p>
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Strong words from a Stanford alum…</p>
<p>The Spanish Mission Revival architecture and Date Palms are stunning, refreshing and quintessentially Californian…perfectly appropriate for a California university. :)</p>
<p>No particular order, but the usual cast of characters is:</p>
<p>Princeton
UPenn
Stanford
Duke
UChicago
Brown
Emory
Boston College
Georgetown
Columbia
Notre Dame</p>
<p>UCB – even Berkeley’s campus is more visually appealing than Stanford’s. I got the feeling at Stanford that there hadn’t been a competent landscape architect on the campus since 1900.</p>
<p>Been to a ton of universities all over this country and I can say that my subjective preference is a campus with lots of natural beauty, that finds itself smack dab in the middle of an exciting urban environment.</p>
<p>The two that fit the bill most for me are:
Columbia - move through the sprawl and excitement of the upper west side into Morningside and suddenly there’s a huge open space surrounded by these wonderful buildings.</p>
<p>Cal Berkeley - a forested oasis in the middle of urban craziness that is the East Bay.</p>
<p>(And I agree, the Farm is a little bland for my tastes)</p>
<p>^yes, that’s precisely it… the Farm is too Farmish.</p>
<p>I loved Georgetown. UVA > All. That campus is breath taking. The great lawn, the fire places, the corner, honestly there isn’t a single thing dosen’t look fantastic on that entire campus.</p>