With three nieces and a nephew heading off to college in the next two years, I thought it appropriate to post Campus Squeeze's 20 Ugliest College Campuses. If you want to read the reasons why these campuses are on the list, you can read the original article HERE. To satisfy my own curiousity, I'm also going to list where each of these 20 ugly schools ranks in U.S. News' college rankings (in parenthesis). Maybe we'll uncover a relationship between campus beauty and educational quality. Fun!20. University of Maryland - College Park (54)
19. Rutgers - State University of New Jersey (59)
18. Texas A&M (62)
17. Ithaca College
16. Rochester Institute of Technology
15. Northeastern University (96-tie)
14. Harvey Mudd College (That just sounds ugly!?)
13. UC - San Diego (38)
12. University of Texas at Dallas
11. Drew University
10. Pitzer College (I've heard this place is the pits)
9. Illinois Institute of Technology (96-tie)
8. SUNY - Buffalo (118)
7. NC State University (85)
6. Rowan University
5. Carnegie Mellon University (22)
4. Brandeis University (31)
3. Southern Connecticut State University
2. UMASS - Amherst
1. Drexel University (108)
If there's no ranking shown, the school didn't rank in the top 125 in the nation and nobody reading this blog has any business attending a college ranked 126 or below! Key takeaways from this list:
- It is possible to get a good degree on an ugly campus (see Carnegie Mellon or Brandeis)
- Insitutes of Technology do not fare well on the beauty scale. As an Institute of Technology alum, I can vouch for this fact. I'm just glad GT didn't make this list.
- Colleges with ugly names have a high probability of being physically ugly (see Harvey Mudd and Pitzer). The fact that THIS school and THIS school are not on the list is a mystery.
- Don't go to college in upstate New York.
Now - go choose an aesthetically pleasing campus and get educated!
5 comments:
I can't believe my pack made the list - of course I was not there to bring up the curve. We had some hot engineering babes when I was there. I remember seeing at least one on campus and we had several cheerleaders that were incredible.
Steve
Just to clarify - this is not about the co-eds at the school. We're talking CAMPUS beauty here!
I disagree with that NCSU ranking. It's not that bad. What about Georgia State!
Don't shoot the messenger! I'd agree that GSU is miserably ugly though.
FYI, UMass Amherst is nationally ranked. Also, if you look at how the list was compiled, the author didn't even visit many (most?) of the schools, including UMass, so should this ranking be taken seriously? He looked at pictures online and a few e-mail responses. Visit the schools yourself or, at least, listen to people that actually do!
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