Princeton Review Top 10 Most Beautiful Campuses: Better to be Closer to the Coasts
By Russell WesterholmSituated nearly smack-dab in the middle of the state of New York, Colgate University is the Princeton Review's "Most Beautiful Campus."
The ranking is part of dozens of lists annually released by the publication, based on surveys of 130,000 students at 379 schools. The "Most Beautiful Campus" list did not favor either coast, but no schools in landlocked states made the ranking (unless you count Indiana, Ohio or Mississippi as being landlocked).
However you look at it, the Review's prettiest campuses all happened to be at least within driving distance of some body of water. The list did not favor the Midwest, save for the more-eastern states of Indiana and Ohio.
1. Colgate
Location: Hamilton, N.Y.
Type: Private - liberal arts
Acceptance Rate: 27 percent, highly selective
2. Pepperdine University
Location: Malibu, Calif.
Type: Private - coeducational
Acceptance Rate: 37 percent, selective
3. Rhodes College
Location: Memphis, Tenn.
Type: Private - liberal arts
Acceptance Rate: 58 percent, selective
4. Sweet Briar College
Location: Sweet Briar, Va.
Type: All women - liberal arts
Acceptance Rate: 84 percent, somewhat selective
5. Scripps College
Location: Claremont, Calif.
Type: All women - liberal arts
Acceptance Rate: 36 percent, highly selective
6. Rollins College
Location: Winter Park, Fla.
Type: Private - liberal arts
Acceptance Rate: 59 percent, selective
7. Southern Methodist University
Location: Dallas, Texas
Type: Private - research
Acceptance Rate: 51 percent, selective
8. University of Mississippi
Location: University, Miss.
Type: Public - coeducational
Acceptance Rate: 59 percent, somewhat selective
9. Princeton University
Location: Princeton, N.J.
Type: Private - Ivy League, research
Acceptance Rate: 8 percent, highly selective
10. Florida Southern College
Location: Lakeland, Fla.
Type: Private
Acceptance Rate: 50 percent, selective
