s/o Most Beautiful College Campuses

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I went to England this summer and walked around Trinity College in Oxford. Gorgeous! It looked like a movie set (maybe it has been in a movie). We peeked into the courtyards of some other colleges which weren't open until later that day. Wow! Now they are mixed into the city and there were throngs of tourists but inside their walls, they looked amazing. My son couldn't believe that people go to school there! He kept saying "It's too nice."

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Dartmouth is so pretty, and the surrounding town is very cute.
Brown campus is very cute (surrounding area, meh).
Princeton beautiful.

Well, if it is just campus, there are too many to name. If you throw in the surrounding area, the list declines dramatically. Yale actually has a beautiful campus, but you wouldn't want to walk 15 feet outside of the campus.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is especially lovely by torchlight!

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SMU

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Soka University, Aliso Viejo, CA.

Newly built from ground up approximately 10 years ago with its $1B endowment. Everything’s spanking new in a planned community in Orange County, SoCal.

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Anonymous wrote:Soka University, Aliso Viejo, CA.

Newly built from ground up approximately 10 years ago with its $1B endowment. Everything’s spanking new in a planned community in Orange County, SoCal.

True but it kinda looks like an office park, don’t you think?

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Anonymous wrote:Soka University, Aliso Viejo, CA.

Newly built from ground up approximately 10 years ago with its $1B endowment. Everything’s spanking new in a planned community in Orange County, SoCal.

True but it kinda looks like an office park, don’t you think?

No. There you have it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've always thought that Virginia Tech, UVA and William and Mary have beautiful campuses and college towns.

Agree with this, although I always thought the UVA campus was overrated. And no, I'm not a hater. I think it's a great school, and I hope my kid get in, but I've heard so much about how beautiful it was, and while I would say, yes it is, it's really not any more beautiful than other beautiful campuses. Plus I really don't like the layout.

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Anonymous wrote:I've always thought that Virginia Tech, UVA and William and Mary have beautiful campuses and college towns.

UVA’s campus is average, and Charlottesville is a dump. I know I’m in the majority here on that statement, but I continue to be amazed by people who think Charlottesville is a cute college town.

I will admit that I am heavily biased here, but while I would never call Charlottesville a dump, I actually think Blacksburg is a much cuter college town. Although, I would guess that there is more to do in Charlottesville.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke, Wake Forest, Cornell, Notre Dame, UVA. Definitely not UNC.

I love the UNC campus, but I don't know how it compares to these other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've always thought that Virginia Tech, UVA and William and Mary have beautiful campuses and college towns.

Agree with this, although I always thought the UVA campus was overrated. And no, I'm not a hater. I think it's a great school, and I hope my kid get in, but I've heard so much about how beautiful it was, and while I would say, yes it is, it's really not any more beautiful than other beautiful campuses. Plus I really don't like the layout.

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Agree. I suspect that those who think the campus is "the best" have little to go on.

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West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

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Anonymous wrote:Cambridge University.

Huh?

University of Cambridge

Which constituent college? Some are ugly.

They have 31. If you pick one at random, the odds are it will be very, very nice.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to England this summer and walked around Trinity College in Oxford. Gorgeous! It looked like a movie set (maybe it has been in a movie). We peeked into the courtyards of some other colleges which weren't open until later that day. Wow! Now they are mixed into the city and there were throngs of tourists but inside their walls, they looked amazing. My son couldn't believe that people go to school there! He kept saying "It's too nice."

Trinity College Cambridge has been shown in Chariots of Fire and The Man Who Knew Infinity.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke, Wake Forest, Cornell, Notre Dame, UVA. Definitely not UNC.

I love the UNC campus, but I don't know how it compares to these other schools.

I've visited all of them. Cornell has nicest scenery on good days, but the campus and architecture itself don't quite match it. Wake Forest and Notre Dame are probably the most consistent and best kept. Wake is kind of drab to my eye, though. UNC is best integrated into the town, and has some charm, but it has grown a lot and seems to have had a lot of its space filled in by construction. Duke has nice areas like the Gothic campus and the gardens, but it is too spread out (one part of campus is a bus ride away) and seems to have a lot of parking and construction as well. UVA has a nice central part around the Lawn, but is really inconsistent as you move away from it.

Not sure how I'd rank them. I think Wake is my least favorite of these (but it is nice).