Stanford Tops Travel + Leisure’s List of 30 Most Beautiful US College Campuses
The ranking assesses campus design through architecture, art holdings, landscape features to reveal how aesthetic allure shapes institutional identity.
Overview
- Travel + Leisure has published its annual ranking of the 30 most beautiful college campuses in the United States.
- Stanford University earned the top spot with its mile-long palm-lined entrance drive, red-roofed Main Quad, mosaic-facade Memorial Church and the Cantor Arts Center’s extensive Auguste Rodin collection.
- Yale University placed 15th, highlighted for its architectural evolution from the Georgian Connecticut Hall to Eero Saarinen’s Ingalls Rink, Norman Foster’s Evans Hall and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
- The rankings span a geographically diverse set of campuses, featuring institutions from Bard College in New York to Rice University in Texas.
- Full campus profiles and detailed rankings are available on Travel + Leisure’s website.