Prettiest College Campuses in America

#76
#76
NochNoch said:
Personally, I'd flip those two but I don't think you can go wrong either way.

Think VMI is pretty impressive, as well.

Dead on about VCU though, avoid that place like the plauge.
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being stacked with W&L helps VMI a lot. That said, I can't for the life of me imagine paying to be a Rat. That's simply crazy.

UR is an impressive place and being hooked up to the Westhampton course of CCV helps too. I just like the look of W&M with the old muted brick throughout.
 
#77
#77
BigPapaVol said:
being stacked with W&L helps VMI a lot. That said, I can't for the life of me imagine paying to be a Rat. That's simply crazy.

UR is an impressive place and being hooked up to the Westhampton course of CCV helps too. I just like the look of W&M with the old muted brick throughout.
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Couldn't agree more about being a rat, not my scene but have friends who went and loved it. To each their own, I guess.

I guess the only thing for me is that UR feels like a different world tucked in that city. There are some nice neighborhoods around the campus but it is still a whole nother level when you drive in through the woods surrounding the main entrance.

Plus, I happened to be there the Friday after 9/11 and the entire student body surrounded the lake on campus and at the end of the service everyone threw a flower in the lake. That lake is an image that will be burned into my brain for a very long time.
 
#78
#78
One's I've personally seen that are nice:

Pepperdine - clearly the scenery makes it.

UC Santa Cruz - again, it's the setting among those amazing Redwoods (kinda like being on a camping trip)

U San Diego - my sister used to teach there.

Northwestern has some great buildings and beaches on Lake Michigan plus you have Chicago right there.

U Wisconsin Madison - the lake/marina out back of the student union is pretty sweet

Sewanee

U of Montana (in Missoula) - sweet setting and nice little mountain/frontier town
 
#79
#79
Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount (CA), most of the UC campuses (Santa Cruz, especially), Elon, and Sewanee or my favorites.
 
#81
#81
northwestern was very cool. Totally slipped my mind. As was Wisconsin-Madison. Not sure I'd rank Wisconsin with my favorites though.
 
#82
#82
The LSU campus in Baton Rouge is nice, as is the Ole Miss campus in Oxford. Coastal Carolina's campus is quite nice, I also liked the College of Charleston campus real well.
 
#83
#83
volfanbill said:
northwestern was very cool. Totally slipped my mind. As was Wisconsin-Madison. Not sure I'd rank Wisconsin with my favorites though.
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I liked your old stomping ground of ODU, the downtown feel. Can walk over to a B&G for lunch on go back to class kind of thing. The women aren't to bad either.
 
#84
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Business said:
I liked your old stomping ground of ODU, the downtown feel. Can walk over to a B&G for lunch on go back to class kind of thing. The women aren't to bad either.
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If it wasn't under so much construction and I had already bragged about my undergrad school, I probably would have brought it up. Once you get inside the campus, it's like stepping away from all the Navy/Harbor/general city melee and very nice. Watching the sailboats on the Elizabeth River is very cool too. The old campus is great for that historic look and then you can see the new feel once you get over towards the engineering/NASA building and all the new athletic complexes. Not to mention the downtown feel around the Ted and bookstore. BTW, all those stores, restaurants and even the hotel are all paying rent to ODU. That area was at one time the most dangerous in Norfolk, so the land was dirt cheap and now ODU is reaping the benefits. I just hope it lasts.

Can't wait to see how the Foreman Field renovations finish up. I will not be present for the opening game of the Lane Kiffin era because I will be witnessing the return of football to ODU.
 
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#86
#86
Going off the Tidewater area theme we have going here, Christopher Newport University is a very nice looking campus.

I'm pretty sure all of their sports are D. III, but you wouldn't know it by looking at their facilities.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Compared to Cincinnati or Temple, Ohio State is a quiet, rural campus.
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Never been to Cincy or Temple. I was at OSU in the 90's and thought it was quite urban, moreso than ours.

Of all the campuses I have been to i compare ours to Florida. To me they had a very similar feel. Gainesville is more rural than Knoxville and their strip is bigger but the overall feel was like UT. Similar architecture.
 
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Business said:
Going off the Tidewater area theme we have going here, Christopher Newport University is a very nice looking campus.

I'm pretty sure all of their sports are D. III, but you wouldn't know it by looking at their facilities.
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we got to visit CNU's Student Center for our facilities class and it would rival just about any school, regardless of size in the country.

It doubles as their basketball arena and while I've never attended a game there, I can't imagine no matter how they claim they can close it in that it could get very loud or exciting.
 
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volfanbill said:
we got to visit CNU's Student Center for our facilities class and it would rival just about any school, regardless of size in the country.

It doubles as their basketball arena and while I've never attended a game there, I can't imagine no matter how they claim they can close it in that it could get very loud or exciting.
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CNU's baseball field is like a Single A baseball field. Right next to the golf course. The thing about CNU, if I remember correctly, they are state funded. Compared to all the other schools in the USA South besides Ferrum, which is Billy Wagner funded, they have without a doubt the best sports facilities.
 
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#90
#90
This year ive been to Furman Wofford Clemson UGA Auburn UT(of course) and Bama.

As much as it pains me to say it Bammers campus was probably the nicest overall.

Clemson and Auburn have a very similar feel being college towns and i enjoyed both, however i was at clemson in the summer and auburn during football season so auburn gets the edge slightly for what i no.

Wofford and Furman are significantly smaller and are very pretty. to me though they felt like a more improved high school which im sick of

UGA wasnt that impressive to me except for the large amount of bars

UT is ok...but its on the rise :rock:
 
#92
#92
VaTech's campus is pretty especially the terrain. You'd also expect to see Robert E Lee walk across the lawn.
 

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I would narrow my top 2 to Colorado Mountain College in Leadville, CO and Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. I graduated from Colorado Mtn. College and I have to say for a very small school how many can say that they had the two tallest mtns. in CO out their window, had the tallest mtn. in the lower 48 out their window, had the 3rd tallest mtn. In the lower 48 out their window, and lived at the base elevation of 10,300 feet in the highest town in the lower 48 states. The view is spectacular and the snow is even better. I am partial to that school. The buildings are few and lack great architecture, but the view is priceless. Now Humboldt State University has it's own forest of redwoods, how sweet is that? As for ugly campuses mtsu ranks right up towards the top. Colorado Boulder is alright, but the student body as a whole are a bunch of doped up, jack a55 rich kids. I will be happy if I never enter the city of Boulder ever again.
 
#94
#94
I was looking at Northwestern up by Chicago and thought that was a pretty campus. It had one of those old-style looks but looked modern at the same time. It was pretty cool
 
#95
#95
blupotato said:
I would narrow my top 2 to Colorado Mountain College in Leadville, CO and Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. I graduated from Colorado Mtn. College and I have to say for a very small school how many can say that they had the two tallest mtns. in CO out their window, had the tallest mtn. in the lower 48 out their window, had the 3rd tallest mtn. In the lower 48 out their window, and lived at the base elevation of 10,300 feet in the highest town in the lower 48 states. The view is spectacular and the snow is even better. I am partial to that school. The buildings are few and lack great architecture, but the view is priceless. Now Humboldt State University has it's own forest of redwoods, how sweet is that? As for ugly campuses mtsu ranks right up towards the top. Colorado Boulder is alright, but the student body as a whole are a bunch of doped up, jack a55 rich kids. I will be happy if I never enter the city of Boulder ever again.
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I love the city of Boulder. I love the University. 99% of the students are exactly as you describe them.
 
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#96
volfanbill said:
northwestern was very cool. Totally slipped my mind. As was Wisconsin-Madison. Not sure I'd rank Wisconsin with my favorites though.
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agree on NW. Strongly considered Kellogg for grad school. Wife loved it.
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#97
#97
dickens821 said:
I love the city of Boulder. I love the University. 99% of the students are exactly as you describe them.
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don't get me wrong besides the twin tower dorms the campus has some beauty and the school is great. but there are just too many hippies and coke heads that ruin the town for me.
 
#100
#100
Ball State and Akron are both colossal dumps; ditto Toledo.

But then, I don't know why anyone would be expecting beautiful architecture or landscaping from the MAC.
 
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