Colgate
WashU, Vanderbilt, Richmond, William and Mary, UVA, Wake Forest, Sweet Briar
Durham, St. Andrews and Cambridge
Durham has a real castle students live in. Hard to top that.
UC Santa Cruz doesnāt have the most beautiful buildings but the campus is a gorgeous redwood forest. Santa Barbara as well, views so pretty you could care less about the buildings.
U Richmond is overall prettiest campus and structures weāve been on.
University of San Diego. William & Mary and UVA. For SLACs, Kenyon.
Notre Dame is pristine
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UBC is hard to beat for the location. Beaches, snow covered mountains, and cherry trees. Some of the buildings are great, some not so muchā¦big place. St. Olaf is pretty nice, but not spectacular. Middlebury, too. There must be a school in the middle of a desert or in the mountains, somewhere? Iāve heard Pepperdine is nice, but have never been there.
St. Andrews is a scenic town, but the university itself isnāt particularly attractive. Cambridge is beyond beautiful.
Stanford, Duke, and Northwestern
Princeton, Duke, Stanford
William & Mary, Richmond, Wake Forest, UVA, & Lehigh. Lehigh was the most unique, beautiful campus I saw.
Colby
Iowa State
Middlebury
I like green surroundings and public art, I guess.
Definitely Hamilton. It felt like something out of a childrenās fairy-tale book, especially the student activities village.
Bucknell - hereās a good photo of the campus and river: https://www.glassdoor.com/Photos/Bucknell-University-Office-Photos-IMG509554.htm
It really does look like college casting central.
I have to go see Lehigh again. I remember the dining hall building was very nice, but the hills and the dorms were off-putting. I preferred Lafayette.
UCSB. As @turtletime stated - who cares about the buildings when the Pacific Ocean is your backdrop. And, itās beautiful all year round.
I know I posted Cornell upthread but this YouTube vid really encapsulates most of the campus best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFSU3TWBiW0&list=PLKIfcUEZfRnszAcHja_n1WfIZgQMQ9yMU
Beebe Lake is on the campus with a running trail around it. Freshmen cross Triphammer Bridge walking from North Campus to classes. It truly is gorgeous.
The āHarry Potterā pic is actually of Cornellās War Memorial, a tribute to all the fallen Cornellians who perished in WW1 and is situated in the West Campus area of school, bottom of Libe Slope.
I havenāt toured a ton of campuses but from what Iāve seen, Cornell is quite lovely.
āDefinitely Hamilton. It felt like something out of a childrenās fairy-tale book, especially the student activities village.ā
Hamilton should get a special prize for best shared student spaces, IMO.
UCSB, University of Washington, USC (So Cal)
Bryn Mawr.
Mount Holyoke was also beautiful.
Princeton.
Wake Forest/UVA
University of San Diego. Beautiful coherent campus layout and buildings, but probably the landscaping and gorgeous year-round gardens, fountains, and glimpse of Mission Bay captured our hearts.
Havenāt been to Hamilton since my twin went there in '71 (during the āKirklandā years), but it still stands as the most charming old-fashioned campus-y LAC campus Iāve seen. And the Marimekko-y crunchy granola Kirkland side had its own charms.