<p>Community Colleges…</p>
<p>Berkeley was dirty and too random. Some of the buildings were impressive but there was no consistent theme.</p>
<p>I have quite a list…</p>
<p>Brandeis, MIT, Syracuse, pretty much every single SUNY I have ever seen, Penn (liked the quad, hated everything else), GW, UMD College Park, Connecticut College (!!), Wesleyan</p>
<p>I actually really liked Hopkins and I love the area of NYU at least.</p>
<p>Blue star,
I agree with Brandeis which was depressing and many SUNYs (Albany, Binghamton and Stony Brook; atrocious)</p>
<p>Rutgers in Camden – extremely dangerous area.</p>
<p>RIT was pretty ugly… tooooooo much brick</p>
<p>BU was the the worst I’ve seen. Not really a campus, and I hated the tower dorms.</p>
<p>Somebody, mentioned Columbia?? I thought it was a beautiful campus.</p>
<p>And RIT only looks nice when there is snow. . . .</p>
<p>Oh, and as far as community college goes, Adirondack Community College isn’t bad either (responding to a previous post), I take some classes there though my high school. . .</p>
<p>Boston University – long city blocks, municipal-like buildings, yuck</p>
<p>NYU – urban jungle, no ambiance</p>
<p>*UCLA – campus is beautiful, Royce Hall archetectural gem, blends well
major complaint = they blocked off traffic in the center of campus, you have to walk miles to your building. Only parking are available on the perimeter. Stupid design. And the buildings are far apart. The whole western style spread-out urban landscape. The same with Stanford. Look at Harvard. Everything is 4 corners you are never more than 5 min away from anywhere and Harvard Yard is directly across the street. One more thing, there’s plenty of street parking intersperse within Harvard campus. You can literally park on a side street and walk steps to a lecture hall.</p>
<p>In defense of MIT: </p>
<p>the side facing the Charles river is nice. Stately in fact. You just have to get away from Mass Ave. Also the common is nice too.</p>
<p>University of Illinois and Illinois State are both bland and unimpressive. Both have a very utilitarian feel.</p>
<p>Hated Umass amherst, suny binghamton is in a really depressing area. I can’t believe some people thought Tulane and U South Carolina had ugly campuses though. Oh well, to each it’s own.</p>
<p>University of Wisconsin, Clark University.</p>
<p>I don’t know why people think UMDCP is so ugly. The area is not at all bad comparatively speaking and I’ve always thought of it as just your typical big state college, all brick and nothing special but nothing terrible either.</p>
<p>why are you bringing back a thread that died over 2 years ago?</p>
<p>Anyone who says Penn and Columbia are ugly campuses needs to have his head examined.</p>
<p>Of those not mentioned, and given the natural beauty and expense of attendig, Bennington is a woeful campus. Agree that Penn is nothing special. Though I don’t think it’s among the worst in the country, definitely ugliest in the Ivies.</p>
<p>Peabody Institute of JHU. It occupies a city block using a bunch of old attached buildings. It does have a courtyard in the middle, but there’s never a real need to go outdoors. The core of it is a warren of hallways and stairs that fairly urge you to get lost. I told my daughter that it looked more like a hive than a campus.</p>
<p>Wow, this whole thread just really shows why it is good that there are so many choices and to each his own. My daughter, and many of the other students there, chose Bennington, in part, because of the beauty of the campus.</p>
<p>That said, while many people rave about it, I personally did not like the campus of Connecticut College.</p>
<p>
Ironically, the library at the Peabody is widely regarded as one of the most [elegant</a> and beautiful](<a href=“http://www.peabodyevents.library.jhu.edu/photogallery.html]elegant”>http://www.peabodyevents.library.jhu.edu/photogallery.html) in the country. Seriously, how many college libraries are routinely rented out for weddings ? The library web page even has a “Gift Shop” link for “Peabody Library Merchandise”.</p>
<p>
Of course it’s a matter of personal taste, but many would dispute that statement. I don’t know how familiar you are with the entire Penn campus in its current form, but many areas (e.g., Locust Walk, Upper Quad, Lower Quad, College Green, 37th St. Walk, 36th St. Walk, Hamilton Walk, Smith Walk, Perelman Quadrangle, Biology Pond, etc.) compare very favorably with Columbia, Harvard, and Brown, and even parts of the other Ivy campuses.</p>
<p>For a campus in the midst of a large urban city, Penn’s 280 acres (which are soon to multiply with the eastern expansion to the Schuylkill River) are generally quite lovely, and the campus is considered by many to be one of the nicest urban campuses in the country.</p>
<p>Rutgers/Douglas.
UMass-Dartmouth.</p>