Most beautiful college campus?

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell

No way - nice location but too many of the buildings are shabby.

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell

No way - nice location but too many of the buildings are shabby.

I define a "beautiful campus" as one that students would "die to go to" not one where students "go to to die" - the abnormal suicide rate at Cornell suggests that something is wrong at that school.

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Virginia Tech

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell

No way - nice location but too many of the buildings are shabby.

I define a "beautiful campus" as one that students would "die to go to" not one where students "go to to die" - the abnormal suicide rate at Cornell suggests that something is wrong at that school.

What is the suicide rate? What is the rate for other similar universities?

Or...sensational suicide stories make it seem like there are more than average?

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Pepperdine

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College of Charleston, SC

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Anonymous wrote:College of Charleston, SC

Shouldn't it at least be a place where a degree counts for something?

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell

No way - nice location but too many of the buildings are shabby.

I define a "beautiful campus" as one that students would "die to go to" not one where students "go to to die" - the abnormal suicide rate at Cornell suggests that something is wrong at that school.

The question was about beauty. Not weather, stress factor or anything else. No questioning the beauty, dude.

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Swarthmore

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary.

+1

I grew up in Williamsburg and sorry, but no.

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Anonymous wrote:Virginia Tech

Wtf?

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Anonymous wrote:UDC, baby. Love that Brutalist architecture.

Seriously, the smartest city/region in the world and you can't recruit the talent to have a world class public university. What an embarrassment UDC is.

DC has a public university?!

Oh yes - one that spends more than $35K per full time student and boasts a 15% graduation rate. In comparison, the DCPS seem stellar:

https://www.udc.edu/docs/UDC_Right_Sizing_Plan_10_01_2012.pdf

The university still has a lot of challenges but it's improved somewhat since the days when a lot of the faculty were political cronies of Mayor-for-Life Marion Barry and city council members. They're even trying to rebrand themselves with the full University of the District of Columbia name, trying to shed the old "yoodeecee" references.

It's too bad that the university didn't move to the St. Elizabeth's site when they had the chance. That would have made a beautiful campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Virginia Tech

Wtf?

The VT campus is very impressive. A bit too massive and cold for my tastes, but I'm sure many love it.

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Anonymous wrote:Virginia Tech

Wtf?

When they put in the massacre memorial, the dining hall beheading and the state cop shot in the face statues commemorating the most significant events of campus history , it will shoot up in the rankings. The Michael Vick dogfighting oil painting next to the empty national championship trophy case should grab VT the top spot.