A Ranking Of America’s Prettiest Campuses
Everyone knows that some of the most prettiest campuses are right in the good United States of America. Everyone might have a different opinion about which twenty-five are the prettiest. So the twenty-five most prettiest college campuses in my opinion are:
1. Southeast Missouri State University
Located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, SMSU is settled near the banks of the Mississippi River.
2. University of Evansville
In southwest Indiana, University of Evansville is located on the Ohio River. The university campus is characterized by its grassy open spaces and tree cover – the landscape is well maintained, and many students take advantage of the spacious lawns and large shade trees.
3. University of Kentucky
UK is located in the city of Lexington, which is about 80 miles south of Cincinnati and 200 miles northeast of Nashville.
4. University of Tennessee
Situated in the heart of Knoxville, which is a thriving modern city with the welcoming personality of a small Southern town. UT’s front yard is the Tennessee River, and its backyard is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
5. University of Alabama
Established in 1831, the University of Alabama is a leafy campus with historic buildings, and a natural history museum.
6. Tennessee Tech
Tennessee Tech is located in Cookeville, Tennessee – a city approximately 70 miles east of Nashville.
7. Ohio State University
OSU is a large, primarily residential, public university in Columbus, Ohio.
8. Harvard University
Established in 1636 in the Heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard gives you all the benefits of a city, as well as the feeling of a quiet haven, separate from the hustle and bustle of city.
9. Yale University
Yale’s tree-lined campus in New Haven Connecticut has been home to “a company of scholars and a society of friends” for over 250 years.
10. Clemson University
This picturesque college campus sits on 1,400 acres in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, along the shores of the 56,000-acre Hartwell Lake.
11. Pennsylvania State University
Penn State is a geographically dispersed university system with campuses located throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
12. Stanford University
Stanford is a thriving residential campus and community sitting on 8,000 acres of foothills and flatlands – once a horse farm belonging to Jane and Leland Stanford and still fondly known as “the Farm.”
13. Texas A&M University
Texas A&M is located in College Station, Texas (about 90 miles northwest of Houston and within a two- to three-hour drive from Austin and Dallas).
14. University of Southern California
USC’s beautiful and historic University Park campus is a great destination for visitors to Los Angeles.
15. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is located on a 168-acre tract in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The campus spans approximately one mile of the north side of the Charles River basin directly opposite the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
16. UCLA
From Rodeo Drive to Sunset Boulevard to the world famous beaches of Santa Monica and Malibu, you can experience everything from natural wonders to premier shopping, sample every kind of food, and enjoy arts and events in the entertainment capital of the world (Los Angeles).
17. University of California, Berkeley
The oldest of all UC campuses, Berkeley may have dated buildings, but for some, the architecture provides a sense of history and a much more resemblance to the east coast college campus feel.
18. Columbia University
Located in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, bordering Harlem, Columbia University may lack the quaint rural charms of some of its collegiate counterparts. However, the Morningside Heights campus of the Ivy League institution makes up for this with the sheer magnificence of its design.
19. Cornell University
Cornell’s main campus is on East Hill in Ithaca, New York, overlooking the town and Cayuga Lake.
20. New York University
NYU’s main campus is located in the lively Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. As a true city school, it has no borders separating a distinct campus from the streets of the Big Apple.
21. Florida State University
The main campus covers 489 acres of land including Heritage Grove and contains over 14,800,000 square feet of building. The Westcott Fountain is one of the most recognizably photographed images of FSU.
22. University of Notre Dame
The Notre Dame campus maintains a landscape of fresh colors for every season, ivy-covered walls on classic collegiate Gothic buildings, expansive quadrangles and some of the world’s most recognized campus landmarks – the Golden Dome, Touchdown Jesus, the Grotto of our Lady of Lourdes and the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. It’s a campus and a university filled with both beauty and spirit that’ll make you never want to leave.
23. Duke University
Duke’s home campus spans three contiguous campuses on nearly 9,000 acres in Durham as well a Marine Lab in Beaufort, N.C.
24. Michigan State University
MSU’s campus is a perfect blend of natural settings and modern facilities.
25. Princeton University
Princeton University’s park-like campus is revered for its architectural and natural beauty. This 500-acre residential community is located in central New Jersey in a cosmopolitan town, centrally located between Philadelphia and New York City.
Which schools do you think have the prettiest campuses in America? Comment below!
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