What a surprising list in some ways.
UVA beautiful?
Not as beautiful as Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles or Occidental with all their trees.

Do people think there's a different agenda here?

The University of Arizona in Tempe, Arizona has an attractive campus & a decent Honors College.

Anonymous wrote:Barry is a strange one...definitely stranger it is #2.

The campus is both small and massive...the actual campus students use is small and the buildings are just fine.

The campus is technically 27,000 acres but I don't get how it matters if there are rolling fields and beautiful lakes that are roughly 20,000 acres away from you that you will never visit.

Berry College in Rome, Georgia has the largest college campus in the world at 27,000 acres. This school appears on many "most beautiful campus" lists. Almost everyone gets a partial scholarship (seems like a standard discount). Christian school, but the religious aspect is modest. Great place for distance runners to train.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:North Idaho College in Couer d'Alene, Idaho is gorgeous. Two year public community college that borders both a gorgeous lake and a stunningly beautiful river.

What's the ACT range?

Probably close to open enrollment. Very limited on-campus housing at North Idaho College, but Couer d'Alene is a resort community with a decent amount of off-campus housing options.

The lake and the river are connected, however, unfortunately, the river flows away from the lake.

https://nic.edu/education-training/

Cue a bunch of people saying this list is wrong, they x college belongs on it and y college doesn’t belong on it.

Anyone care to bet how many pages we’ll get to? 6?

Barry is a strange one...definitely stranger it is #2.

The campus is both small and massive...the actual campus students use is small and the buildings are just fine.

The campus is technically 27,000 acres but I don't get how it matters if there are rolling fields and beautiful lakes that are roughly 20,000 acres away from you that you will never visit.

Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Incredibly beautiful campus & setting.

Anonymous wrote:North Idaho College in Couer d'Alene, Idaho is gorgeous. Two year public community college that borders both a gorgeous lake and a stunningly beautiful river.

What's the ACT range?

North Idaho College in Couer d'Alene, Idaho is gorgeous. Two year public community college that borders both a gorgeous lake and a stunningly beautiful river.

UVA’s “grounds” are overrated. Other than the Lawn, which is fairly small, the rest of the buildings are just kind of meh.

There are other campuses in Virginia that are prettier - UMW, JMU, and Virginia Tech come to mind.

For example, I would add three service academies (USMA at West Point, USAFA-Colorado Springs, USNA-Annapolis).

If this list of 30 colleges & universities was expanded to 33 schools,which schools do you think deserve to be added ?

Both U Virginia & College of William & Mary are on the list.

U Chicago, Northwestern, Berry College, Stanford, Princeton, Wellesley College, Bryn Mawr, U Colorado-Boulder, U Washington-Seattle, Rice, Lewis & Clark College, Yale, Duke, Furman University, Wisconsin-Madison, Kenyon College, Notre Dame, Bard, Michigan, Vanderbilt, Flagler College, Florida Southern, Sewanee-The Univ. of the South, UVA, Wm. & Mary, U San Diego, Cornell, Swarthmore College, U Georgia, & U Hawaii.

VA colleges are exactly what I expected

Interesting list of 30 colleges & universities based on campus beauty:

https://travelandleisure.com/attractions/colleges-universities/americas-most-beautiful-college-campuses