Most Beautiful College Campuses by Geographical Region

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is one of the most beautiful college campuses you've ever visited? Let's make some geographical categories:

West Coast
East Coast
Midwest
Other (can be another country, a place that doesn't fit any category like Texas, etc)

West Coast: Pepperdine
East Coast: University of Maryland-College Park
Midwest: U of Chicago

UMD-College Park? You need to travel more. A lot more.

Seriously

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Anonymous wrote:You’re gonna have a lot of trouble coming up with a more beautiful campus than Notre Dame.

No poster on this thread had trouble.

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Berkeley
Georgetown

Oxford & Cambridge
Totally gorgeous colleges

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Anonymous wrote:Berkeley
Georgetown

Oxford & Cambridge
Totally gorgeous colleges

Oxford and Cambridge are old moldy dark campuses that lack technology and the dorm rooms are stark

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell fools

Huge incoherent campus, not beautiful. The town is also unattractive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is one of the most beautiful college campuses you've ever visited? Let's make some geographical categories:

West Coast
East Coast
Midwest
Other (can be another country, a place that doesn't fit any category like Texas, etc)

West Coast: Pepperdine
East Coast: University of Maryland-College Park
Midwest: U of Chicago

UMD-College Park? You need to travel more. A lot more.

The quad is really beautiful and the buildings are a nice uniform brick. It’s an unexpected green oasis in a schlumpy suburban area.

It is easy for a campus to be beautiful when the have ivy endowments and nice locations by the beach and mountains. But UMd does unexpected beauty so well.

UMBC so ugly though

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Anonymous wrote:Multiple mentions for Princeton on the east coast. What is it exactly about Princeton's campus that makes it beautiful? The 18th century architecture? Genuinely curious as I've never visited.

I actually was surprisingly disappointed by the Princeton campus. I guess people like the gothic architecture but I thought it was really lacking in nature/tree coverage.

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Northeast- Swarthmore
Southeast- Emory
Midwest- WashU
Southwest- Rice
Westcoast- USC

Calling USC beautiful requires you to be very near-sighted.

UCLA is actually much nicer (and better located) and overall a beautiful campus imo.

The area in front of Royce Hall is nice but the rest is meh.

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Vandy

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Anonymous wrote:University of Washington (Seattle)

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East Coast- Mount Holyoke

Second this. Going to visit Vassar, maybe I’ll change my mind. Love MHC.

+2.
Gorgeous campus. Bonus that we saw it full foliage glory.

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West coast - UCSB for the nature surrounding it - hard to beat the pacific on three sides and mountains on the other. Bicycle paths everywhere.

East Coast - Princeton’s buildings and local town are charming

Have not visited enough in the south to really know.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cornell fools

Huge incoherent campus, not beautiful. The town is also unattractive.

NP--Perhaps, but I'll take the natural beauty of the surrounding area over almost any other college in the country. (Yes, I realize we're talking about campuses.)

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William & Mary

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Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Smith