Most beautiful campuses

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Oglethorpe

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Anonymous wrote:Another nice list:

https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a70897879/most-beautiful-college-campuses/

It is fascinating to me that Boston College never makes any of these lists. This list, for example, has Villanova and BU. The Travel and Leisure list has Georgetown. I've been to these campuses, and BC is a far more beautiful campus in my opinion.

BU? I didn't see BU on any list, did I miss it. The thing with the super urban schools is that they don't have the same kind of identifiable campus, just emblematic buildings. Boston is a beautiful city but don't know how you can put BU on the list.

I agree with you that BC is lovely. I like Georgetown's location better but for a campus itself, BC is prettier than Georgetown or Villanova.

I find so many campuses charming and pretty, I don't know how anyone compiles these lists. Many colleges have a few spectacular spots: like the Rotunda and Lawn at UVA or views of the River Houses and bridges on the Charles River at Harvard... it is hard to beat those shots but does that make the schools "most beautiful"? And others just seem very nice but not superlative like William and Mary--I think it is very nice but does it stand out among peers? To me, the ones that really stand out to me have a distinctive and uniform look like Stanford or Sewanee.

Harvard never quite comes together compared to its peers like Cambridge, Oxford, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford (in that order in my view). Not sure why given their wealth and age. UVA's Lawn area is beautiful and historic, but the rest of the campus doesn't do much for me. I like William and Mary's campus, but it definitely has some spots that are average.

Gothic Duke is nice, but I don't really like the East Campus or some other areas. Washington has extraordinarily beautiful areas, but it seems to me like they have some real clunkers. There are few campuses that don't have average or bad areas.

Vassar College may be among those few with no average/bad areas.

I’ve heard it described visually as the “Platonic ideal” of a college campus.

You do need to enjoy Dark Gothic for the most part though, with a few notable exceptions.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another nice list:

https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a70897879/most-beautiful-college-campuses/

It is fascinating to me that Boston College never makes any of these lists. This list, for example, has Villanova and BU. The Travel and Leisure list has Georgetown. I've been to these campuses, and BC is a far more beautiful campus in my opinion.

BU? I didn't see BU on any list, did I miss it. The thing with the super urban schools is that they don't have the same kind of identifiable campus, just emblematic buildings. Boston is a beautiful city but don't know how you can put BU on the list.

I agree with you that BC is lovely. I like Georgetown's location better but for a campus itself, BC is prettier than Georgetown or Villanova.

I find so many campuses charming and pretty, I don't know how anyone compiles these lists. Many colleges have a few spectacular spots: like the Rotunda and Lawn at UVA or views of the River Houses and bridges on the Charles River at Harvard... it is hard to beat those shots but does that make the schools "most beautiful"? And others just seem very nice but not superlative like William and Mary--I think it is very nice but does it stand out among peers? To me, the ones that really stand out to me have a distinctive and uniform look like Stanford or Sewanee.

Harvard never quite comes together compared to its peers like Cambridge, Oxford, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford (in that order in my view). Not sure why given their wealth and age. UVA's Lawn area is beautiful and historic, but the rest of the campus doesn't do much for me. I like William and Mary's campus, but it definitely has some spots that are average.

Gothic Duke is nice, but I don't really like the East Campus or some other areas. Washington has extraordinarily beautiful areas, but it seems to me like they have some real clunkers. There are few campuses that don't have average or bad areas.

Vassar College may be among those few with no average/bad areas.

I’ve heard it described visually as the “Platonic ideal” of a college campus.

You do need to enjoy Dark Gothic for the most part though, with a few notable exceptions.

Pretty much all the Seven Sisters schools have beautiful campuses. Mount Holyoke, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr. . .

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IndianaUniversity Bloomington and Notre Dame

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another nice list:

https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a70897879/most-beautiful-college-campuses/

It is fascinating to me that Boston College never makes any of these lists. This list, for example, has Villanova and BU. The Travel and Leisure list has Georgetown. I've been to these campuses, and BC is a far more beautiful campus in my opinion.

I agree. It seems like some schools have great PR people to make sure they make it on these lists because there are so many more deserving schools. Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder but anyone with eyes should be able to agree that certain campuses should be on everyone's list.