Most beautiful campuses

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I was just at Cornell for reunion and I had forgotten how truly beautiful it is.

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Anonymous wrote:I was just at Cornell for reunion and I had forgotten how truly beautiful it is.

Ithaca is gorges! I always loved the campus and how it overlooks Lake Cayuga providing for a lovely setting, especially in the fall.

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Anonymous wrote:NYU

This is a sarcastic response, right? It's a bunch of incongruent buildings, some old, some new, some ugly, with no sense of campus or together-ness. NYU holds their graduation at Yankees Stadium outside of the city because they literally don't have a great lawn or area on their co-called campus where they can hold a graduation ceremony or gathering of any size larger than 200 people

No, seriously it's perfectly integrated into the capital city of the world. With Washington Square Park serving as its central hub, the vibe is truly unmatched by schools stuck in the middle of nowhere with boredom.

The "vibe" of NYU is urban, concrete, and rats. Enjoy!

Seriously who prefers drinking in the middle of nowhere vibe.

Much prefer a beautiful, pastoral setting to the crime-ridden, noisy, concrete jungle, but YDY.

Many college towns, particularly in the South, have very much higher crime rates than NE cities. Part of this is due to the high rate of sexual assault, but lots of them are just rough places.

Gainesville Florida, Tuscaloosa Alabama, and Athens Georgia for example, have surprisingly high rates of violent crime.

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Anonymous wrote:Havent been to VT… how does that college compare ?

We loved VT. The trip down in the spring and fall is absolutely gorgeous and the campus is lovely - it's a large school but the actual campus is compact and walkable. The little town of Blacksburg is very quaint and cute and directly adjacent to campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard’s 1st year dining hall, Annenberg, is pretty magnificent - they aren’t taking you inside on the tours

I've visited Harvard a few times and I am always underwhelmed with the campus. I did get to check out the renovated Museum which was very impressive and spectacular but the overall campus has never done it for me.

It must be Cambridge, MA. If you look at Harvard's closest global competitors, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, and Cambridge University, all are generally renowned for campus beauty except for Harvard and MIT.

And Harvard has only had about 400 years to do something about it. But its origins are as a Puritan school, which didn’t really value aesthetics. And no one subsequently wanted to change that. So it remains a very plain school.

I think generally, universities that did their most substantial building in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are the most pleasing to the eye today.

And many are trying to tear down or reface buildings they built in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Duke is amazing! The Sarah Duke gardens are off the charts no other college can match it. Plus a highly regarded 18 hole Golf course with 2 high end hotels on campus. Duke is our tops nothing close.

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Yale - most impressive individual buildings

Princeton - most impressive campus as a whole

Cornell - most impressive natural setting

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Anonymous wrote:Duke is amazing! The Sarah Duke gardens are off the charts no other college can match it. Plus a highly regarded 18 hole Golf course with 2 high end hotels on campus. Duke is our tops nothing close.

A lot of colleges have golf courses, but I don't think the actual campus should based on that.

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/greatest-college-golf-courses-america-top-25

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Princeton is eh now, the modern buildings are horrendous.

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Anonymous wrote:I am well aware that it's not a highly rnaked school by any means, but Hood College is Frederick Maryland is a gorgeous campus. I think it might be prettier in the spring than fall. There's a pergola in the middle of residence quad that is covered in wisteria, the grass lawns are beautiful, the buildings are classic brick with white columns. Truly just a pretty little jewel of a campus.

Agree. Hood is prettier than a lot of the schools being mentioned here.

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No college has anything close to the Duke gardens. Phenomenal!

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Virginia Tech’s campus is beautiful. It’s a large campus, but feels cohesive with the use of Hokie stone for buildings. The central drillfield is a lovely open space and the mountains in the distance are my vision of the perfect campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Virginia Tech’s campus is beautiful. It’s a large campus, but feels cohesive with the use of Hokie stone for buildings. The central drillfield is a lovely open space and the mountains in the distance are my vision of the perfect campus.

It's super depressing to be isolated there for 4 years though.

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Anonymous wrote:No college has anything close to the Duke gardens. Phenomenal!

Yawn.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke is amazing! The Sarah Duke gardens are off the charts no other college can match it. Plus a highly regarded 18 hole Golf course with 2 high end hotels on campus. Duke is our tops nothing close.

Duke has the most annoying boosters.