Most scenic B-School(Top 15) campuses?
Just wanted find out what Top15 B School campuses are scenic/good looking?
So far, I've seen:
Columbia/Stern - Absolutely ugly
HBS - nice campus, but nothing spectacular. Haven't seen MIT, but should be similar.
Wharton - decent campus, but Philly is a dump. Although the Penn area is much better
Yale - awesome new campus, but New Haven
I imagine UVA/Michigan/Duke/Tuck/Stanford/Berkeley are very scenic campuses. Can anyone comment? What about the two Chicago area schools?
UCLA has the nicest campus and weather.
I went to school in NYC like you (not NYU) and I work in the NYC area. So I am absolutely interested in getting out of NYC for B School. Going to the west coast is not on my radar though.
It seems like Kellog has a very good looking campus right by the lake.
While @tna probably thinks I'm a liberal feminist pussy, I'm gonna bring him in here about the Philly comment. UPenn has a great urban campus and Philly is a great city. Don't go west too far from Penn but across the river is center city and it has a lot to offer.
Haha. I think nothing of the sort.
Not sure why someone would consider Philly a dump. Maybe if you got off at 30th Street and kept walking West until 50th or like Powelton. Center cited and old city are great. Lots of history. Livable city with plenty to do. In the middle of a big building spree. At least 4-5 cranes in ucity and 5 30-50 story buildings going up this year in CC alone. Plus you're close to NYC and Washington.
Cornell's Johnson School is pretty nice during the fall and summer months.
Whatever B School I go to, I am assuming I will not be spending the summer there.
A majority of top business schools will have real winters. Just a fact that most are in the north east.
Given that you don't seem to have a penchant for urban or west coast... Johnson is awesome for outdoorsy stuff, town has a laid back vibe. Tuck is similar, but the town seemed more conservative to me. Darden is nice as well, and you avoid a lot of the winter if snow isn't your thing. Fuqua didn't strike me as the most beautiful area, but the campus is awesome.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder though. Go check them out for yourself if you can.
I don't understand what do you mean when you say Hanover, NH is conservative? You mean politically? That shouldn't bother me because my views are pretty right wing. I think most of WSO's membership tends to be conservatively inclined.
Notre Dame is gorgeous.
Berkeley is really beautiful but Stanford might be even better. Stanford's campus looks really amazing, especially during the summer. Btw, I think HBS looks really good though. MIT is ugly.
Some thoughts for schools I've seen:
Tuck: The school is an important part of a small town. I've mostly just seen the town and the athletic facilities, but if you're considering Tuck, do it for the "Tuck experience" and not the beauty of the campus.
Fuqua: The b-school building is pretty amazing. I visited it back in 2010 during the summer and I really liked it. One of the more impressive buildings and a great broader Duke University campus of course.
UVA Darden: I hated the Darden building, just because it seemed very old (I'm a fan of modern, use of glass and light, etc.) The UVA campus is pretty but the school itself and the classrooms didn't impress me. If you're a fan of historic / detailed architecture, you may actually really like the building -- some people I've met love it.
HBS: I wasn't super impressed with the buildings and facilities but maybe my expectations were set too high. Certainly not poor. Of course, no one goes to HBS because of the buildings...
Stanford: I really liked Stanford. The West Coast location enables them to do a lot of cool things with the campus. In particular, the first year "dorms" are directly connected to the outdoors and even some classroom buildings make use of outdoor space. Pretty unique.
Wharton: The overall Penn campus is pretty nice. Lots of pathways with trees and other green scenery around. I wasn't too impressed with the insides of the buildings (went there to interview and sit in on a class), but the overall Penn campus made up for it.
Booth: I go here, I'm biased. The actual building the b-school is hosted in (Harper Center) is super nice and modern. The overall UChicago campus is quite nice also. However, once you leave the university grounds you're in Hyde Park which is a bad area at night and sometimes even during the day. The downtown classrooms and study rooms are also very modern (the study room and partial classroom building is less than a year old).
Harper is very similar to Ross. The wintergarden and the surrounding area. I really liked it, very modern, but the only problem I had was the overwhelming number of undergraduates taking up space everywhere.
WUSTL's new bschool:
http://www.moorerubleyudell.com/projects/olin-business-school%E2%80%94k…
If you don't want cold and don't want west coast but do want pretty, I suggest Duke or Darden. When I went to see Duke last year, my cousin, who lives outside of Durham kept pointing out that the entire area is surrounded by the Duke Forest, which is lovely. And then there's also basketball.
UVA was designed by Thomas Jefferson -- how bad can that be?
Personally, I think of all the school locations I've seen including Berkeley (my home city now) and Palo Alto, Cornell is the most naturally beautiful campus. Hanover is adorable, but Ithaca takes your breath away. The Stanford GSB campus is amazing -- it's like someone invented business-school paradise there -- and if you come go to that part of the world for school, you will probably never leave.
Darden is really scenic
Anderson Marshall Haas GSB
I know it's not a top school, but Pepperdine in Malibu, CA
USC has one of the more loyal alumni networks of any school, but "scenic" wouldn't be the first thing that comes to mind given its location in South LA (formerly known as South Central LA).
"Scenic" might not be the first thing you think of when you hear South LA, but USC's actual campus is a beautiful place and is only getting nicer with the addition of the new USC Village on the old UV grounds. Stunning on-campus architecture (for the most part), and a highly modern business school building. I went there for undergrad, but took a few classes in the graduate school building and wish I could have taken more. Plus, it's about a 40 minute drive to Malibu (as compared to about 20 minutes from UCLA) which isn't bad.
For your architectural viewing pleasure...
http://village.usc.edu/
OP, is this really a criterion you're weighing in the bschool comparison? Calling Columbia and Stern "absolutely ugly" and Philly a "dump" makes you sound like a real clown.
Have you ever been to Philly? Last time I checked every major city has ghetto areas. If you just hate city landscapes in general, then why even bring them up? Total mongoloid thread.
Haha. sb'd.
A city campus for any degree most likely isn't going to entail the traditional quad and campus feel but, and I will readily admit that I didn't go to bschool, the last thing I wanted when I was in my later 20's was to move to a pretty campus in the middle of nowhere, especially after having lived in a few major cities. The benefits of having numerous restaurants, a great nightlife, museums and arts scene and all of the other bonuses of cities and I'd give up a scenic campus any day of the week. Add that to the fact that Stern and Columbia put you a subway ride away from 95% of the jobs most people on this site want, and Penn puts you a 1:15 minute Amtrak ride basically directly from Wharton's campus to Penn Station and there are definitely benefits to "ugly" campuses and "dump" cities. When you want to get out of the city to see nature and scenery you rent a car for the weekend.
But that's just my opinion. I'm a city person. Moving to the burbs when my oldest kid entered school was like ripping out a piece of my soul.
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