Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 20:53     Subject: Re:Most beautiful campuses
There are at least 100 gorgeous campuses in the Is--or ably a lot more.

I have not seen U Chicago or Northwestern mentioned yet. They are both very nice.

University of the South--Sewanee is gorgeous.

Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 20:45     Subject: Re:Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t find UVA or UNC appealing, both average. This is a bizarre list of someone that hasn’t seen many schools.

In general, state flagships to me look all the same with different paint jobs. The only exception, to me, is UCLA


I find that all SLACs look the same. They all blend right into each other.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 20:39     Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:For setting, I might pick the University of Montana, Missoula.


Have you visited both University of Montana and Montana State University ? If yes, which did you find to be more beautiful ?

Thank you in advance.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 20:36     Subject: Re:Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t find UVA or UNC appealing, both average. This is a bizarre list of someone that hasn’t seen many schools.

In general, state flagships to me look all the same with different paint jobs. The only exception, to me, is UCLA


Well, Colorado painted those mountains a beautiful color.

I don’t really see that as a part of a campus.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 20:26     Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:Saved you a click. Here's the list in the article that OP shared:

1. University of Virginia
2. Stanford University
3. Princeton University
4. University of Washington
5. Colgate University
6. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
7. Dartmouth College


I’ve been to all these except Washington. Would agree the rest are very nice, though others are very nice too: Richmond, Wellesley, Miami of Ohio, Oklahoma State, Indiana, Boston College, SMU.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 18:27     Subject: Most beautiful campuses
For setting, I might pick the University of Montana, Missoula.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 18:21     Subject: Re:Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t find UVA or UNC appealing, both average. This is a bizarre list of someone that hasn’t seen many schools.

In general, state flagships to me look all the same with different paint jobs. The only exception, to me, is UCLA


Well, Colorado painted those mountains a beautiful color.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 18:19     Subject: Re:Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:I don’t find UVA or UNC appealing, both average. This is a bizarre list of someone that hasn’t seen many schools.


UNC was pretty, but is getting overbuilt. UVA other than the Lawn area never seemed exceptional to me.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 15:59     Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Scripps
Pomona
Pepperdine
Middlebury
Dartmouth
Sewanee
Denison
Stanford
Salve Regina

You travel alot.



Half this list is in California (where I resided for half my life). Two are in close proximity of another (Middlebury and Dartmouth-I graduated from one) and the other three I have visited. Is that traveling a lot??? Odd takeaway. You probably grew up in Arlington, went to GMU and now live here and aspire to send your kid far...to UVA!



What a nasty provincial comment! I am similar in that I grew up in So Cal, went to one of the beautiful SLAC s listed but got a lousy cafeteria-styled education, went T3 ivy for law school, and am now thrilled with the in-state publics we have in Virginia: one child went to UVA and is now a the most gorgeous university I can think of: Oxford. The other went to GMU and has prospered via internships and job placement out of GMU at Microsoft, where she has been for 8 years.

Why not name the LAC?
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 15:58     Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hard to take a list that does not include UCLA seriously.


oh puhleeze. I'm a Californian and have been on campus often. WHAT do you think is beautiful about UCLA?

DP but UCLA is gorgeous. It doesn’t mimic the classic state school look like Berkeley, which is nice but formulaic. The entire Powell library area is very nice, and the size constraints keep it a pretty nice, small place; it doesn’t sprawl forever like Stanford. Probably my favorite campus in California.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 15:52     Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Scripps
Pomona
Pepperdine
Middlebury
Dartmouth
Sewanee
Denison
Stanford
Salve Regina

You travel alot.



Half this list is in California (where I resided for half my life). Two are in close proximity of another (Middlebury and Dartmouth-I graduated from one) and the other three I have visited. Is that traveling a lot??? Odd takeaway. You probably grew up in Arlington, went to GMU and now live here and aspire to send your kid far...to UVA!



What a nasty provincial comment! I am similar in that I grew up in So Cal, went to one of the beautiful SLAC s listed but got a lousy cafeteria-styled education, went T3 ivy for law school, and am now thrilled with the in-state publics we have in Virginia: one child went to UVA and is now a the most gorgeous university I can think of: Oxford. The other went to GMU and has prospered via internships and job placement out of GMU at Microsoft, where she has been for 8 years.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 15:47     Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:Hard to take a list that does not include UCLA seriously.


oh puhleeze. I'm a Californian and have been on campus often. WHAT do you think is beautiful about UCLA?
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 15:25     Subject: Re:Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t find UVA or UNC appealing, both average. This is a bizarre list of someone that hasn’t seen many schools.

In general, state flagships to me look all the same with different paint jobs. The only exception, to me, is UCLA


University of Utah is gorgeous
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 15:23     Subject: Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Scripps
Pomona
Pepperdine
Middlebury
Dartmouth
Sewanee
Denison
Stanford
Salve Regina

You travel alot.



Half this list is in California (where I resided for half my life). Two are in close proximity of another (Middlebury and Dartmouth-I graduated from one) and the other three I have visited. Is that traveling a lot??? Odd takeaway. You probably grew up in Arlington, went to GMU and now live here and aspire to send your kid far...to UVA!


Wow, you’re charming. Defensive much?
DP
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2025 12:32     Subject: Re:Most beautiful campuses
Anonymous wrote:I don’t find UVA or UNC appealing, both average. This is a bizarre list of someone that hasn’t seen many schools.

In general, state flagships to me look all the same with different paint jobs. The only exception, to me, is UCLA