This list is the result of a survey.
1) http://www.colgate.edu/DesktopDefault1.aspx?tabid=730&pgID=6013&nwID=4077
2) University of California Santa Cruz. As a Alumni I will say is it the most beautiful campus in the world.
3). Yale, Princeton, Vassar
4). Vassar. Hamilton, Brown
5). Duke, Princeton, Middlebury, Dartmouth, Colby
6). Stanford and Miami University (Ohio) -uglies MIT
7). Duke, Stanford, Princeton, Dartmouth. LAC’s- Williams, Holy Cross, Bowdoin.
8). Colgate, Dartmouth, Wash U, UChicago (for those of you who like gothic).
9). Princeton is nice, USC is nice, Cornell is nice, Chicago is nice, but Stanford is AMAZING
10). Chicago, Cornell, UCLA, UWashington
11). I’ve been to 36 schools-
Prettiest:
Duke (the old part- georgian archetecture)
Hamilton (only because the facilities are AMAZING… for so little students, they have basically anything they want… including the Spur’s basketball court…)
William and Mary (tourists get lost on the colonial williamsburg tours and accidentaly wander onto campus)
Princeton- absolutely beautiful- buidlings are a lot like Yales, only more secluded and seemingly better well-kept
University of Rochester (the snow doesn’t do much for it though )
Cornell- very impressive
Wake Forest- incredibly impressive- must be all that DI money (and the tobacco money cough cough)
Elon- not beautiful in an impressive sort of way, but quaintly beautiful with a southern red brick pathway flair
Haverford- cute, with a somewhat colonial feel… Very cozy atmosphere
Ugliest Campuses
SUNY Binghamton (boxes, with not a tree in sight)
UMBC (one pretty path, but the rest is like an institution, common to most state schools)
Juniata College- in a utter state of disrepair with horrible facilities- my high school track is wayyyyyyy better than their stadium.
Albright College- the most depressing place in the world. I am not kidding. It resembled a nursing home- the kind you don’t want to end up in.
Allegheny College- the surrounding area was dying, and half the buidlings were boarded up, with some burnt ones. And it’s not even it a typicaql city- a semi-urban area- small land areas, but nothing to do in the immediate area. The school itself was pretty though, but I consider the surrounding neighborhood to be a part of the campus.
12). Princeton Review’s annual survey of 115,000 college students at the Best 361 Colleges named these as the Top 10 most beautiful campuses:
– Pepperdine U
– Princeton U
– Sweet Briar College
– Agnes Scott College
– Sewanne-University of the South
– Mt. Holyoak College
– Scripps College
– Kenyon College
– Loyola Marymount U
– UC Santa Cruz
13). Cornell
Yale
Princeton
Bard
Tufts
Wellesley
14). Prettiest:
Colgate
Pepperdine (and best location–Malibu, CA)
Rhode Island School of Design
Indiana–Bloomington
University of Richmond
Stanford University
and some people liked Yale (me, too)
and some liked Princeton (great location in my opinion)
Ugliest:
SUNY-Albany
MIT
Carnegie-Mellon
Rutgers–Camden (worst location possible)
University of Rochester
Many people also logged positive votes for Dartmouth, Salve Regina, Holy Cross, Elon, and some even liked Bentley College’s newness, although I’m not sure you’d call it pretty.
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