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07-25-2005, 06:56 PM
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| Largest Universities (campus size/acres)
what are some of the largest universities? for example, UCSD, the largest UC, is like a city of its own. what are other colleges of massive size?
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07-25-2005, 07:05 PM
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UCSD is not the largest UC. UC Davis is, because all its agricultural fields are part of the campus.
Stanford has the largest campus in the US and second-largest in the world.
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07-25-2005, 07:08 PM
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c'mon...how many people do you see walking around the agricultural fields?
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07-25-2005, 07:11 PM
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UT austin...
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07-25-2005, 07:13 PM
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You see the Ag majors and professors walking around in those fields. But in any case you don't need to have a person standing or walking on a given spot in order for it to be a legitimate part of a campus. Any spread-out campus is going to have some blank spots on it.
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07-25-2005, 07:17 PM
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Stanford has the largest campus in the US and second-largest in the world.
| Does that include the countless acres of undeveloped rolling hills and the land they lease out to tech businesses along page mill? Stanford does own like half of palo alto, but i'm not so sure that should count as part of the campus.
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07-25-2005, 08:16 PM
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UT austin is relatively small...about half of most UC's, or the size of UCLA.
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07-25-2005, 08:19 PM
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How about Rutgers?
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07-25-2005, 08:21 PM
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>>Stanford does own like half of palo alto, but i'm not so sure that should count as part of the campus.<<
Stanford counts it as part of the campus.
Stanford: 8180 acres
UC Davis: 5993 acres
UCSD: 1976 acres
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07-25-2005, 09:01 PM
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"Stanford has the largest campus in the US and second-largest in the world."
Stanford also has its own post office. You send mail to Stanford, CA 94305 or to Stanford student and staff p.o. boxes at 94309, not to Palo Alto, CA.
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07-25-2005, 09:10 PM
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Duke is in the top five thanks to Duke Forest.
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07-25-2005, 09:12 PM
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Cornell must be somewhere on the list due to the number of buildings and the constant construction. That's the only thing that makes me hesitate about going there if I get accepted.
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07-25-2005, 09:15 PM
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what about Texas A&M - College Station?
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07-25-2005, 09:26 PM
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Stanford has the largest campus in the US and second-largest in the world
False. In fact, none of those cited above is even close. Berry College. 28,000 acres. http://www.berry.edu/about.asp
HUGE endowment, too.
Let's be fair though, it's a college, not a university.
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07-25-2005, 09:31 PM
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I'd never even heard of Berry College before. However, a quick view of their main page says they're "one of" the world's largest, not "the" largest.
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