Most beautiful college campus is...?
Oct 4th, 2003, 07:39 AM
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Most beautiful college campus is...?
Before we know it, we will be looking at colleges. While I know that the beauty of the campus is not the main draw of a school by any measure, it is a factor. We will be looking at schools with strong academics but not at all limited to the ivies. All womens schools are a possibility, too. Fodorites have often provided great info in the past so I am asking you opinions. Thanks so much.
Oct 4th, 2003, 08:00 AM
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Hofstra University on Long Island has a beautiful campus. It's academically sound, and its location is about 30 miles east of NYC and convenient to some of the best beaches ( the Hamptons and Jones Beach) in the country.
Oct 4th, 2003, 08:22 AM
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Pepperdine
UC Santa Cruz
Stanford
Wellesley
Smith
Dartmouth
Bucknell
Miami (Ohio)
Duke
Northwestern
U Washington (Seattle)
Bryn Mawr
Williams
Washington and Lee
(Many of these are from Princeton Review's top 20 list, at least the ones I've visited, plus some I think belong in the top 20).
UC Santa Cruz
Stanford
Wellesley
Smith
Dartmouth
Bucknell
Miami (Ohio)
Duke
Northwestern
U Washington (Seattle)
Bryn Mawr
Williams
Washington and Lee
(Many of these are from Princeton Review's top 20 list, at least the ones I've visited, plus some I think belong in the top 20).
Oct 4th, 2003, 01:35 PM
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Furman University, just north of Greenville, SC, makes a fuss about its status as "one of the most beautifully landscaped public institutions in America." That's a quote I've read in several guides to American colleges and universities.
Meanwhile, Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., is also quite lovely -- and oddly enough, for a look at it, rent Scream 2, which was filmed on the campus.
For a beautiful college campus in a beautiful city, I recommend Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC, which is also home to Wake Forest University and Winston-Salem State University, which is an historically black college.
I also have to give high marks to Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, NC, north of Asheville, for a beautiful college in a beautiful village set amidst some of the most beautiful natural scenery in the eastern US -- beautiful to the third power, in other words.
Unfortunately, many of the other higher education options in Western North Carolina tend to consist of rather bland modern buildings, although UNC-Asheville makes up for it by boasting botanical gardens as well as mature landscaping, plus its location in North Carolina's most architecturally diverse city, if not its most beautiful.
Meanwhile, Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., is also quite lovely -- and oddly enough, for a look at it, rent Scream 2, which was filmed on the campus.
For a beautiful college campus in a beautiful city, I recommend Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC, which is also home to Wake Forest University and Winston-Salem State University, which is an historically black college.
I also have to give high marks to Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, NC, north of Asheville, for a beautiful college in a beautiful village set amidst some of the most beautiful natural scenery in the eastern US -- beautiful to the third power, in other words.
Unfortunately, many of the other higher education options in Western North Carolina tend to consist of rather bland modern buildings, although UNC-Asheville makes up for it by boasting botanical gardens as well as mature landscaping, plus its location in North Carolina's most architecturally diverse city, if not its most beautiful.
Oct 4th, 2003, 06:18 PM
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University of Colorado in Boulder. At the base of the Rocky Mountains, with amazing views of the Flatirons. The weather is beautiful, they never close the golf courses! It can snow one day, and be 70 and sunny the next! 300 days a year of sunshine! An hour and half to some of the best skiing in the world! Good looking students from all over the country as well!
Go Buffs!
Go Buffs!
