somebodynew

alison, UCSC is indeed a very nice place. The fact that you can go mountain biking or hiking on campus great.

UMD College Park is nice.

GetMeOutOfHere

University of Southern California is so nice. I got a "natural" feel from it.

Cre8tive1

Best campus, STANFORD hallelujah, hallelujah, and we shall reign over Cal forever and ever...., sorry impulse.

You cannot beat Stanfords campus unless you are geared toward the small New England school type campus, in that case, I would say Williams has the best.

To those Princetonians that say Stanford looks like a giant taco bell, we say Princeton is just a squished up version of Stanford beneath the smog.

Ugliest schools, if you tour UMass Amherst in March/April after you get accepted, you'll probably vomit, it's one huge industrial park, thank God for New England weather and covering it up with snow. UMass Lowell is the only decent campus of the five UMass schools. Of course, Massachusetts is 47th in higher education investment.

Temple has probably the worst campus of all Division I schools, thats for sure.

nspeds

Hahaha, so that is what it reminded me of...

Stain99

Vassar for sure
Boston College
Connecticut College is quite nice
And I agree with the person who said Wellesley. It is amazing.

nirvana33

womens' colleges always look really really nice. wellesley and bryn mawr, for example. i think college campuses with lots of nature surrounding it are beautiful. like cornell, colgate, middlebury. Funny..since i'll be attending a college in new york city.

gianievve

Faline2

The Lawn at University of Virginia, perfect harmony with Charlottesville and rolling Albemarle County
hard to beat for being the Real Thing. Mount Olympus

too bad it is hard to reside on campus for the four years, but the UVa kids get their walking shoes on and get a lot of exercise getting around

many other campuses feel derivative after you've seen it.

For a southern LAC...Furman University, with Paris Mountain behind it, Asheville, NC up the road...sunny days, but still in the foothills of the Blue Ridge

Swarthmore's Lawn

Middlebury's perfect Vermont village authenticity with great modern indoor architecture for those long long winters

Dartmouth..another harmonious just right campus that feels uber authentic, close to nature but still quite diverse

lilybbloom

What do y'all think of NU's campus? I'll be seeing for myself in a couple of months but I'm getting anxious

ottothecow

I rather like UChicago's campus but you have to be down with gothic architecture mixed with some beatiful modern buildings (that many students dont like because of bright colors and the such).

I think its quite nice and the quads look very much like what you would expect at a historic university.

Now, the area to the north has been quite ugly but it has been rapidly improving as fast as the crap can be torn down (this is linked to the old idea that uchicago is incredibly dangerous which just isnt true about the area around the campus anymore).

edvest1

Hmm, I don't know what part of Georgia Tech is ugly. There are a few generic admin bldgs but area is nice and tree-lined, most bldgs are quite nice and has that southern charm, especially at night.

bmoreyo

College Park and the whole Route 1 corridor is ugly, not to mention a ghetto. Its more brick than building except for the quad. It looks like construction facility from air.

soccerguy315

William and Mary is very very nice.

as are UVA, Princeton, Stanford

Georgetown is ok.

collegeparent

Among the most beautiful campuses: Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth, Duke, UVa, BC, Colgate, Davidson, Emory, JHU, Middlebury, Vassar, Washington & Lee, Bucknell, Dickinson, Kenyon, Denison, William & Mary, Penn State (if not for its campus spirit alone), CalTech, Cornell and Vanderbilt.

Among the most "ugly" campuses, IMHO and with some apologies: SUNY campuses, but most especially Binghamton (a humorless, harsh and insensitively industrial feel with dorms that look like urban housing projects), Southern Connecticut State U. (hopeless despite the new building; the bookstore's in a portable trailer?!), Harvard (urban un-planning), Brown (crowded, tired, sloppy, badly maintained), Amherst (in dire need of a facelift), Pitzer (cold, sterile, out-dated post modern architecture), parts of Wesleyan (poor and inconsistent overall design to the campus), Columbia (messy, cramped, overwhelming), Case Western (try as it will, it can't keep the Cleveland slums at bay), Lehigh (the fraternities and local town diminish it; also the athletic facilities being over the hill don't help), Mt. Holyoke (another campus in need of a good facelift and some energy), American (a split personality), Clark (in the wrong part of Worchester; Holy Cross is in the right part and it shows), Drew (dark, gloomy, exhausted) and Ohio State (because it is so huge!) --

Untilted

Prettiest I've been---yale? maybe

Best architecture--University of Virginia (former stanford architect called UVa's campus design second to perfection) well, there's no perfection.

Georgetown's campus is OK, the location is awesome though. (it's in DC)