College Rank Names The 50 Most Beautiful Campus Quads

BEXLEY, OH – College Rank has released a list of the 50 Most Beautiful College Campus Quads. College quads serve as communal spaces where students, faculty and visitors study, gather and enjoy a park-like setting. Colleges and universities around the country put their quads front and center on marketing and promotion materials, and for good reason; they are often the most beautiful area of a campus.

Sara Moore, the article’s author, had this to say regarding the ranking: “We took an in-depth look at hundreds of campuses across the country and over many hours cut our list down to 50 very deserving schools. We considered factors such as size, campus programming and events, weather, history, and above all else, aesthetics while compiling this list. Students at all of these schools would be well served to spend as much time as possible on their campus quad.”

Here is a list of the 50 Most Beautiful Campus Quads (In alphabetical order):
Bates College – Lewiston, ME
Baylor University – Waco, TX
Belmont University – Nashville, TN
Berry College – Mt Berry, GA
Boston University – Boston, MA
Brown University – Providence, RI
Bucknell University – Lewisburg, PA
College of the Atlantic – Bar Harbor, ME
Columbia University – New York, NY
Connecticut College – New London, CT
Cornell University – Ithaca, NY
Covenant College – Lookout Mountain, GA
Denison University – Granville, OH
Duke University – Durham, NC
Florida Southern College – Lakeland, FL
Furman University – Greenville, SC
Gettysburg College – Gettysburg, PA
Hamilton College – Clinton, NY
Hanover College – Hanover, IN
Harvard University – Cambridge, MA 
Miami University – Oxford, OH
Morehouse College – Atlanta, GA
Mount Holyoke College – South Hadley, MA
Northwestern University – Evanston, IL
Ohio University – Athens, OH
Oklahoma State University - Stillwater, OK
Pepperdine University - Malibu, CA
Santa Clara University – Santa Clara, CA
The Ohio State University – Columbus, OH
Thomas Aquinas College – Santa Paula, CA
University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa, AL
University of Arizona – Tucson, AZ
University of California Los Angeles – Los Angeles, CA
University of California Berkeley – Berkeley, CA
University of California Irvine – Irvine, CA
University of Chicago – Chicago, IL
University of Cincinnati – Cincinnati, OH
University of Georgia – Athens, GA
University of Maryland – College Park, MD
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI
University of Minnesota Duluth – Duluth, MN
University of Notre Dame – South Bend, IN
University of South Carolina – Columbia, SC
University of Utah – Salt Lake City, UT
University of Virginia – Charlottesville, VA
University of Washington – Seattle, WA
University of Wisconsin- Madison – Madison, WI
Vassar College – Poughkeepsie, NY
Wake Forest University – Winston-Salem, NC
Yale University – New Haven, CT

The full ranking can be viewed here: collegerank.net/beautiful-campus-quads

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