How beautiful is your local college campus?
Travel + Leisure shared their list of the “30 Most Beautiful College Campuses in the U.S.,” with one Connecticut university making the list.
Ranking 15th overall, Yale University in New Haven beat out other colleges like Duke, Wellesley College and The College of William & Mary, according to Travel + Leisure.
“While some campuses cling to their past, Yale embraces changing architectural movements,” according to Travel + Leisure. “The buildings span from the Georgian-style red-brick Connecticut Hall (whose construction predates the Revolutionary War) to the postmodern Ingalls Rink by Eero Saarinen.
“There’s also the School of Management’s Edward P. Evans Hall, a Norman Foster project completed in 2014. Duck inside the wondrous Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, which houses volumes in a six-story glass-enclosed tower, set against translucent grained Vermont marble panels. The most impressive items in the collection are an original Gutenberg Bible and a 12th-century book of Buddhist prayers.”
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Which college was ranked the prettiest of them all? The honor went to Stanford University in California, according to Travel + Leisure: “The entryway to Stanford is arguably the grandest of any beautiful college campus. A mile-long palm-lined drive leads up to the expansive green oval Main Quad, surrounded by red-roofed buildings and the school’s architectural crown jewel, Memorial Church with its striking mosaic façade. Beauty continues at the Cantor Arts Center, which has 170 bronzes by Auguste Rodin, one of the largest collections outside of Paris. Take in the view of the 8,180-acre campus and the surrounding area—including the San Francisco skyline on a clear day—from the Hoover Tower observation platform.”
Find the full list of campuses to make the list here, courtesy of Travel + Leisure.