Colleges that look like resorts?!?!?!?!?

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<p>What are some colleges that can be mistaken for a resort or luxury hotel?</p>

<p>I’ve already looked at this link but is this it: <a href=“http://www.hlntv.com/slideshow/2014/01/14/college-campus-or-country-club”>http://www.hlntv.com/slideshow/2014/01/14/college-campus-or-country-club&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Emory University: Clairmont Campus</p>

<p>SERIOUSLY</p>

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<p>High Point</p>

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<p>Huh I found the University of Hawaii’s campus to be relatively ugly in a part of Hawaii (way too much traffic). </p>

<p>LMU and Florida Southern would be my choices. Perhaps also UC Santa Cruz. Of course a great number of schools seem as though they could be fantastic resorts if properly managed. I’d think Sewanee would be a fantastic weekend get away for locals as would a huge number of other colleges and universities. </p>

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<p>Soka University of America</p>

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<p>New College of Florida.</p>

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<p>University of Miami</p>

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<p>Pepperdine was my first thought and it is first on your list.</p>

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<p>Although they lack beautiful grounds, a few NYC schools qualify in a different way, since they are located in neighborhoods where hotel rooms cost hundreds of dollars per night: Fordham-Lincoln Center comes to mind immediately. We toured student housing at Columbia College Chicago (another urban setting) which boasted full suites overlooking Grant Park and Lake Michigan. The architecture at UC Santa Barbara is prosaic, 1960s cinder-block style, but the location is spectacular. The same applies to UC San Diego. Cal-Poly San Luis Obisbo is in beautiful wine country, along the Central Coast. I never visited Cal State - Channel Islands, but would guess that it is very attractively situated. Eckerd has a lovely location on Tampa Bay, although its buildings are nothing remarkable. My first post, regarding New College, still stands: their Admissions Office is located within a bayfront villa (formerly owned by the Ringling family). On our first visit, we saw a dolphin frolicking directly offshore. </p>

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<p>Flagler college actually IS in a former luxury resort in Florida.
Eckerd and New College also.
UNC Wilmington is in a top beach resort, too.</p>

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<p>Pepperdine is consistently ranked as the most beautiful campus in the country. Try even filmed Zoey 101 there.</p>

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<p>University of Wisconsin? Gorgeous city (they built the capital in that location because it was pretty), but not exactly what I would call a resort in any other sense.</p>

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<p>Definitely High Point University - complete with gate guards</p>

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<p>Stanford.</p>

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<p>I think St. Mary’s College of Maryland feels like a summer camp…not quite the same, of course. And Swat is a lovely campus – but I feel like the hard working atmosphere offsets any resort-type feel the physical beauty may give it.</p>

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<p>Just finished reading a book where even other college presidents comment about High Point as being 'Country Club U" Place is just bizarre in how far they have taken things.</p>

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<p>USF for a lower tier school relative to the rest of the thread</p>

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<p>We really didn’t recognize the dividing line between New College of Florida and the Ringling Museum next door. I thought we parked in the wrong place.</p>

<p>Appalachian State does have a hotel and is in a resort town.</p>

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<p>Madison is gorgeous but the UW campus is not, IMO. Or rather, half of it–the part near the lake–is, and the other half is ugly and disjointed. Lots of run-down Brutalist buildings.</p>

<p>Bard College in NY was actually a private estate (for the Rockefellers? can’t remember). It still looks more resort-y than collegiate.</p>

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<p>Well, students don’t go to High Point for an education, but rather to get amenities while picking up a degree until a parent sets them up with a job. :slight_smile: So yes it’s been pushed to an extreme but it doesn’t feel “extreme” to the crowd it caters to (who also don’t care/don’t have to care about the reputation the school has in the state :p).
Strictly speaking though it’s more country club than resort.</p>

<p>So far we’ve covered beach resorts and lakeside resorts but what about ski resorts, any college?
Would any among UVermont, Colorado College, St Mike’s, Carroll College of Montana… qualify?
Any college in the Poconos that’d qualify, for instance?</p>

<p>What about Vassar? </p>