Nicest College Campuses

I would go with:

Stanford
University of Washington-Seattle
University of Notre Dame
Cornell University
United States Military Academy (West Point)

Those are my top 5. What do you say?

 
jec:
Have you seen princeton?

I have. It has a beautiful campus but I do not like it as much as I like the above colleges. Personal opinion

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shorttheworld:
talk some shit for this but Quinnipiac University has expertly manicured lawns and is in the middle of a state forest park. im pretty sure half the tuition goes to landscaping lol

lol i agree. i was there yesterday for a career fair and there was a small hoard of workers swapping out mums like clockwork. also, the females are expertly manicured.

personally, i think salve regina has a very unique and "nice" campus. and the Gothic architecture at Yale is nice too.

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FeelingMean:
shorttheworld:
talk some shit for this but Quinnipiac University has expertly manicured lawns and is in the middle of a state forest park. im pretty sure half the tuition goes to landscaping lol

lol i agree. i was there yesterday for a career fair and there was a small hoard of workers swapping out mums like clockwork. also, the females are expertly manicured.

personally, i think salve regina has a very unique and "nice" campus. and the Gothic architecture at Yale is nice too.

I agree with you. Quinnipiac U has one of the best campuses during Fall time. Campus is surrounded by mountains. Salve Regina in RI is awesome. Right by the beach. Yale has one of the best night life for college students.

 
mfoste1:
pepperdine hands down.....are academics good there?

They are ok. Probably a step down from the UC SB and UCI; I'd put them on par with UC Riverside and Merced, if comparing to CA schools. I would guess they have a tighter alum network, being a mid sized private.

However, everyone I have met from there cannot say enough good things about their college experience. Not a big surprise.

 
blackrainn:
Dartmouth (location is awesome for outdoors / winter sports) Harvard Yale Princeton Hopkins Stanford Duke

Hopkins, what have you been smoking haha?

edit: nevermind, just saw that you GO to Hopkins

 
blackrainn:
Dartmouth (location is awesome for outdoors / winter sports) Harvard Yale Princeton Hopkins Stanford Duke

Duke looks like a cement prison.

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DNOsaur:
blackrainn:
Dartmouth (location is awesome for outdoors / winter sports) Harvard Yale Princeton Hopkins Stanford Duke

Duke looks like a cement prison.

Where are there cement buildings on West? Do you mean Fuqua?

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Chicago's campus is not nice enough to be on the list of the nicest campuses.

When I went there for college recruiting all the grass on the lawn outside of the building in which they held the info session was overgrown, their fountains are in disrepair and depressing to behold, and there was a homeless person's shopping cart full of crushed soda cans in the middle of one of their quads.

 

pepperdine sits on a cliff overlooking malibu...if we are going off of purely location and campus there is no contest

Here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, you are the sucker.
 

I'd say Notre dame is the unmatched college campus. It's in the middle of nowhere the lawns are immaculate and every building except the dorms is epic. If only the weather was bearable....

 
Vectors225:
seedy underbelly:
Washington University in St Louis and Princeton in the U.S.

Internationally though, no university campus is as gorgeous as Oxford's.

waat? washu campus is shit

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Have you been to the campus? It's fairly small but it's visually gorgeous for the most part. And the new south 40 (new freshman dorm area) is fucking amazing.

 
mfoste1:
MistaBooks:
Ole Miss - not to mention there are pretty things to look at aside from the landscaping/buildings - you ivy guys know what I'm talking about ehhh??

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Nooo you're thinking of NYC.

Top campuses have to be Pepperdine and Oxford...they're incredible.

Also, a little love for the SEC: LSU's campus is respected too. (at least in the south)

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ThaVanBurenBoyz:
Indiana has extremes: Notre Dame and IU (especially in the fall), then Ball State (white trash hell hole) and Purdue (the most bland campus I've ever seen).

Indiana also has some small LACs with amazing campuses. Depauw University, Wabash College, Hanover College. Used to play sports at these all the time in UG. in the fall those places are amazing.

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Tech, I totally agree with you on Boulder. Personally, I think Penn State looks gorgeous, particularly in the fall and winter. Man... so great places to really see the beauty of the campus. Between the buildings and the landscaping, it is just a gorgeous place.

Other campus I happen to like: University of Michigan, CU Boulder, Wake Forest and UVA all come to mind.

 

We're just getting our first snow here in Boulder, expecting up to 15 inches by the end of tomorrow! God damn I love Colorado

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TexasBlue:
Please remind me why you care about fountains and the length of the grass???

Go to any school in the south on Saturday in fall... Oxford, MS and Tuscaloosa, AL definitely top the list.

Additionally, a Saturday in Lexington, KY in October is hard to beat at Keeneland (yes, I realize it's not on campus).

The fountains look dingy and have no water. They are cracked. (Or were last time I was at UChicago). Why does this matter? Well, I guess if you think a girl with bags under her eyes and crusted vomit on her lips can still be beautiful, then so can their campus.

 
HFFBALLfan123:
Any SEC school on gameday trumps nice lawns and fountains any day of the week... Retarded Sluts > A golden dome

Havent been to a gameday at a SEC (although I really want to), but if you go to a gameday at ND its not just "nice lawns and fountains" The campus definitely has a palpable electricity to it. Tough to describe and I'm biased, but just saying nice lawns and fountains does not do it justice.

IU is the only other really pretty campus I have seen, but I have only been to midwest campuses so I am sure I am missing out on a lot

 
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HFFBALLfan123:
Any SEC school on gameday trumps nice lawns and fountains any day of the week... Retarded Sluts > A golden dome

Havent been to a gameday at a SEC (although I really want to), but if you go to a gameday at ND its not just "nice lawns and fountains" The campus definitely has a palpable electricity to it. Tough to describe and I'm biased, but just saying nice lawns and fountains does not do it justice.

IU is the only other really pretty campus I have seen, but I have only been to midwest campuses so I am sure I am missing out on a lot

I was at the ND vs. AF game a few weeks ago, its a nice campus but nothing compared to SEC gameday... tailgating is a complete joke and you couldn't pay me enough to fuck the girls there...

 

I have visited the Cornell campus on about 20 occasions. It is the most beautiful campus that I have ever visited. I taught at Notre Dame College of Business for a couple of years. Did not notice anything spectacular about their campus. I used to go to Chicago almost every weekend just to avoid the boredom. I mean, sure they have the touchdown Jesus and all that, but that is all good for one visit.

 
Virginia Tech 4ever:
How does one rank campus beauty? None of us has been to even 5% of American universities, let alone global universities.
True. Outside of the Midwest, I've only been to Georgetown and Columbia.

Georgetown is a fun area for sure, but the campus was only "nice" (nothing exceptional). Columbia was pretty nice for a campus in/huddled up against a city. Sure beats Marquette, Butler, U Chicago, etc., lol.

 
HFFBALLfan123:
go.with.the.flow:
best campus is wait..wait..... who gives a flying fuck

Well, it seems you do since you took the time to comment...

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SlikRick:
Pepperdine tops any other campus hands-down in terms of looks. I had a floor to ceiling window overlooking the Pacific Ocean my sophomore year. It was pretty sick. Academics are comparable to UCI and UCSB, although I guarantee you'll do 10 times more work at Pepp.

Ph*ck you. I was Early Action wait listed at Pepperdine.

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SwaGGeReR:
Best urban campus: Columbia

The architecture here is, without a doubt, gorgeous. But the campus is so freaking tiny that it doesn't often feel like a true campus. :(

That, Barnard students, and the annoying hippies one bumps into every other second makes for a pretty annoying campus environment.

 

These comments have to be taken into context. Which campuses have you actually visited? For example, with the OP's 5 campuses, I've only seen two (Stanford and Cornell). Liked them both, but they aren't at the top of my list.

Better to list what campuses you've actually visited, so we can understand what your rankings mean.

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