Yeah - i’ll look at two schools with a similar campus metric -
W&L and Bowdoin as an example. One I thought was stunning. One blah. Both an A-.
Purdue is - again, in my and my kid’s opinion - really nice. A B+. But UIUC - he couldn’t wait to leave - and A-. And some posters have noted Purdue is clean and looks well kept while UIUC looks run down. So ….to each their own.
If you google Niche + best campuses, you’ll get a stack rank. Of course it depends on how they classify. You can’t put the link here but the top 10 are and I’ll be interested to see how many are in the other top rankings:
- UCLA - fine in my opinion - not a biggy
- Liberty - haven’t seen
- Cal Baptist - haven’t seen
- Va Tech - I think the nicest large campus in America
- Wash U - very nice - but very different than Va Tech - so how do you compare?
- Alabama - we’ve read many posters on here say once their kids visit, game over.
- TCU - it’s fine
- JMU - i loved it - especially the quad but my kid hated the freeway running through it
- Auburn - very nice
- UGA - I liked it a lot - mainly how they wedge the statium in so effortlessly…but top 10….hmmmm
OK the next 10
Ole Miss, MId American Christian in OKC, Yale, FIU, The Masters (in Santa Clarita, CA), USC, SMU, UCF (not buying that…it’s nice but not that nice), Vandy (ehhhh) and Grand Canyon.