What makes a beautiful college campus--Magnificent architecture? Colorful flowers and plants? An incredible view of the ocean or mountains?
Whatever the secret ingredient is, these schools have the most important factor to make it on the Princeton Review's "Most Beautiful Campus" list...student approval! This list was one of many compiled for the Princeton Review's new book, "The Best 379 Colleges." According to the Princeton Review, "All 62 ranking lists are based solely on what students told us about their own colleges on our 80-question student survey." More than 125,000 student surveys were submitted, and students weighed in on a variety of superlatives including best food, best financial aid, even biggest party school.
So what do you think of the campuses that made the cut? Was your school unfairly left off one of the lists? Register with the Princeton Review to see the full list of beautiful schools or browse all lists.
10. Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Fla. (Flickr, Malcolm Manners)
9. Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. (Flickr, Kah-Wai Lin)
8. University of Mississippi in University, Miss. (Flickr, Nancy Fuentes)
7. Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas (Flickr, Daniel Lobo)
6. Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. (Flickr, Via Tsuji)
5. Scripps College in Claremont, Calif. (Flickr, Claremont Colleges Digital Library)
4. Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, Va. (Flickr, Braz Brandt)
3. Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn. (Flickr, Ed Uthman)
2. Pepperdine University, in Malibu, Calif. (Flickr, Chen Yang)
1. Colgate University in Hamilton, NY (Flickr, Mike Bash)