The San Antonio-based Web site, TheBestColleges.org, recently released its rankings of the “50 Most Amazing College Campuses.” The editors wrote, “Because students who graduate from beautiful campuses typically report higher overall satisfaction with their college experience, we decided to put together these rankings of the 50 prettiest college campuses in the United States.”
The “prettiest” campus, according to the editors, belongs to Elon University in North Carolina. Kenyon College in Ohio ranked second and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, ranked third. Pepperdine University, on the coastline of Malibu in California, ranked fourth.
Four women’s colleges made the list. Scripps College in California ranked 46th. Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania was rated as the 45th prettiest campus and Wellesley College in suburban Boston ranked 38th. The women’s college with the most beautiful campus, according to the Web site, is Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It ranked 13th overall.
Sweet Briar, at 41, is also a women’s college.