30 Most Beautiful US College Campuses as Ranked by Travel & Leisure

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Michigan #28??? Evidently they have never been to Michigan… Lol.

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Looking forward to the “Chance Me” posts about shotgunning the top 30 most beautiful college campuses (as ranked by Travel & Leisure).

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I was disappointed that Santa Clara University was not on the list.

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This is a good idea, really. For now on, for any Chance Me post that mentions T10s, T20s etc, I am going to answer based on Travel & Leisure’s beautiful campus rankings. I think we all should. Then all CC’s regular Shotgun Shamers could make comments such as “What do Bard and Berry have in common besides a T5 ranking?!”

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I have no idea what is the most beautiful campus in the USA. However, Stanford does have quite a beautiful campus and I am not surprised to see it on the list.

The quad and the chapel are quite attractive and might be two things that people think of when they think “Stanford campus”. The view from the top of Hoover Tower is quite nice.

There are also some things that you might not think about. One example is the cactus garden. I wandered into this by mistake at one point. Fortunately this was on the way home from class so I was able to linger for a while.

The campus is quite large and mostly bicycle friendly. I say “mostly” because there are trees that drop thorn balls. You might need to get special heavy duty inner tubes for your tires. Fortunately the local bike stores have these in stock (or at least did in the late 1970’s – are they allowed to change anything after we leave?).

Is some other campus more attractive? I have no idea.

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Interesting - niche, which is student surveys, gives Berry a B+ - so not close to tops.

To each their own.

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The usual suspects are on the list.

Most colleges have at least one Instagram-worthy building, with or without vines or plam trees, but whether all of the colleges on the list have an entire campus that reflects the cover shot, is another story.

Sewanee (The University of the South) was just ranked #1 on another list that a friend of mine posted to her social media (her kid attends). My thought is that they just periodically shuffle these lists and repost.

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