Anonymous
03/17/2026 23:33
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Duke hands down!
Faux Princeton? Check out the real thing, not some cancer school funded by death sticks.
You know Princeton is modeled after Oxford and Cambridge right?
If you want authentic, you have to go to Europe.
Both Princeton and Duke should completely prostrate themselves before Cambridge and Oxford.
Anonymous
03/17/2026 00:22
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Richmond, Rhodes, Berkeley, Wellesley
Anonymous
03/16/2026 23:45
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
No one has named Berry, which often comes up on these lists.
Anonymous
03/15/2026 17:06
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:Duke has that ugly campus they never show on tours… they kinda fool you into thinking the pretty campus is how it all looks, but nope
That isn't unique to Duke. Not all of UVA looks like the Lawn. Not all of Michigan looks like the law school. Not all of UW looks like the Quad when the cherry trees are in bloom.
Anonymous
03/15/2026 00:09
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Perhaps the campus architecture is a bit 70s, but the Pacific Ocean and beach location of UCSB is beyond compare. My kid is loving it there.
Anonymous
03/15/2026 00:01
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Duke has that ugly campus they never show on tours… they kinda fool you into thinking the pretty campus is how it all looks, but nope
Anonymous
03/15/2026 00:00
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
William & Mary
Anonymous
03/14/2026 23:58
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:Michigan. Beautiful in all 4 seasons. Iconic buildings with a mix of Gothic and art deco. Plus cute chunky squirrels
The cute chunky squirrels are actually impressive.
Anonymous
03/14/2026 18:26
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Duke hands down!
Faux Princeton? Check out the real thing, not some cancer school funded by death sticks.
You know Princeton is modeled after Oxford and Cambridge right?
If you want authentic, you have to go to Europe.
DP. Even so, Princeton has a style than Duke lacks, perhaps because Nassau Hall once served as the U.S. Capitol and the town is historic as well. Duke is more obviously a copy of something else, and Durham was a tobacco town.
And almost every picture of Duke seems to be the Duke Chapel, whereas pictures of Princeton highlight any number of the buildings on campus.
Almost every photo of Princeton is Blair Hall
Nope. Do a search for the campus and it will pull up lots of pictures of Nassau Hall, Holder Hall, East Pyne, Whig/Clio, Firestone Library, McCosh Hall, and others in addition to Blair Arch.
Duke is nice, especially in the spring. It just doesn’t wow me the same way. People mostly pay attention to West Campus and the Duke Chapel. Virginia Tech and Washington U also have a lot of nice Gothic buildings.
+1
I love the archways at VT.
Anonymous
03/14/2026 16:49
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Duke hands down!
Faux Princeton? Check out the real thing, not some cancer school funded by death sticks.
You know Princeton is modeled after Oxford and Cambridge right?
If you want authentic, you have to go to Europe.
DP. Even so, Princeton has a style than Duke lacks, perhaps because Nassau Hall once served as the U.S. Capitol and the town is historic as well. Duke is more obviously a copy of something else, and Durham was a tobacco town.
And almost every picture of Duke seems to be the Duke Chapel, whereas pictures of Princeton highlight any number of the buildings on campus.
Almost every photo of Princeton is Blair Hall
Nope. Do a search for the campus and it will pull up lots of pictures of Nassau Hall, Holder Hall, East Pyne, Whig/Clio, Firestone Library, McCosh Hall, and others in addition to Blair Arch.
Duke is nice, especially in the spring. It just doesn’t wow me the same way. People mostly pay attention to West Campus and the Duke Chapel. Virginia Tech and Washington U also have a lot of nice Gothic buildings.
Anonymous
03/14/2026 16:29
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:Cal Poly SLO. Campus is gorgeous. Beach is nearby, they even have a wetsuit drying station for students who surf. Everyone seems so happy.
Agreed. Our DC preferred it to UCSB in terms of vibes and beauty. UC Santa Barbara is directly on a beach (whereas SLO is 10-ish minutes from multiple beaches) but UCSB just seemed more dreary in terms of student vibes/architecture. SLO is so much more green!
Anonymous
03/14/2026 16:23
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Duke hands down!
Faux Princeton? Check out the real thing, not some cancer school funded by death sticks.
You know Princeton is modeled after Oxford and Cambridge right?
If you want authentic, you have to go to Europe.
DP. Even so, Princeton has a style than Duke lacks, perhaps because Nassau Hall once served as the U.S. Capitol and the town is historic as well. Duke is more obviously a copy of something else, and Durham was a tobacco town.
And almost every picture of Duke seems to be the Duke Chapel, whereas pictures of Princeton highlight any number of the buildings on campus.
Almost every photo of Princeton is Blair Hall
Anonymous
03/14/2026 10:20
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Duke hands down!
Faux Princeton? Check out the real thing, not some cancer school funded by death sticks.
You know Princeton is modeled after Oxford and Cambridge right?
If you want authentic, you have to go to Europe.
DP. Even so, Princeton has a style than Duke lacks, perhaps because Nassau Hall once served as the U.S. Capitol and the town is historic as well. Duke is more obviously a copy of something else, and Durham was a tobacco town.
And almost every picture of Duke seems to be the Duke Chapel, whereas pictures of Princeton highlight any number of the buildings on campus.
Anonymous
03/14/2026 08:50
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Duke hands down!
Faux Princeton? Check out the real thing, not some cancer school funded by death sticks.
You know Princeton is modeled after Oxford and Cambridge right?
If you want authentic, you have to go to Europe.
Anonymous
03/14/2026 02:49
Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Colonnade at W&L is pretty spectacular. Pretty much what a college campus is supposed to look like.
Lexington is lovely and I also like the view from the Parade Ground at VMI.
VMI looks like a got dang prison.
Pretty much the yin and yang of architecture in one town (literally across the "fence"). W&L - classic Georgian architecture. Colonnade is on the National Historic registration list. VMI next door.... neo-Gothic.
When I first came to Lex way back when I commented to the driver that I never realized there was a state prison in Lexington.......