The 20 Ugliest Colleges in the USA

[Sonny]

LINK:
http://campussqueeze.com/static/20-ugli ... e-USA.html

MCLA schools making the grade:
Northeastern
UCSD
NC State
Texas A&M
Carnegie Mellon
Pitzer College & Harvey Mudd (two Claremont Colleges)

Discuss.....

[Duffy34]

Northeasstern may be a little bit on the ugly side regarding a campus but you cant beat going to college in the heart of Boston. An awesome city, especially for college age kids and a great place to go to school. Plus there are like 200 colleges in or around boston so there is always a great bar scene...and girls.

[Tim Gray]

LINK:
http://campussqueeze.com/static/20-ugli ... e-USA.html

MCLA schools making the grade:
Northeastern
UCSD
NC State
Texas A&M
Carnegie Mellon
Pitzer College & Harvey Mudd (two Claremont Colleges)

Discuss.....

That building is Northeastern's satellite campus in Dedham, MA a good 25-30 minutes away from NU. The Dedham is where professional development and night classes and such are offered.

Check out NU's real campus, for being in the middle of a major city, it's awesome:

[BigheadTodd]

Ahh my old dorm at Southern CT. Somehow it seems prettier in my dreams....BTW, when will southern get an MCLA team? They get alot of FLIDs and players from CT.

[swampthing]

Yeah it actually looks great in those pictures. Plus if you're close to Boston that's got to factor in somewhere.

I don't think a school from the SEC (except Alabama's fountain . . .?) can make the most beautiful universities list just because they all sort of look the same with the old school architecture which I think is great looking but if you put one on you'd have to list them all.

If you want to see the ugliest, most expensive college building ever that was supposed to incorporate modern art, look up MIT's famous building (I can't think of the name so it's not that famous but my friend from there showed me and it's hideous) on a search bar.

[Vols2]

Univ. of Buffalo is also on this list (aka- SUNY-Buffalo)

[Tim Gray]

Yeah it actually looks great in those pictures. Plus if you're close to Boston that's got to factor in somewhere.

I don't think a school from the SEC (except Alabama's fountain . . .?) can make the most beautiful universities list just because they all sort of look the same with the old school architecture which I think is great looking but if you put one on you'd have to list them all.

If you want to see the ugliest, most expensive college building ever that was supposed to incorporate modern art, look up MIT's famous building (I can't think of the name so it's not that famous but my friend from there showed me and it's hideous) on a search bar.

I bet you mean Simmons Hall at MIT

[FLAK]

Nope, I think he means the new Stata Center, that was designed by the same guy that designed the Disney Opera House in L.A. (I think that's what it is known as)

[laxfan25]

That would be Frank Gehry - pretty well-known architect. Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, the Disney Concert Hall, Experience Music Project in Seattle, and the Weisman Art Museum at the U of Minnesota.
Very unusual designs to say the least.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry

[Zeuslax]

The guys tell me it's getting better. I'm not sure about that. They thank their lucky stars that Pitt and Duquesne are next door.

[DanGenck]

Northeastern is very beautiful. That one should not be on the list.

And with respect to Texas A&M, I am guessing much of the grey is because of the Corps of Cadets history and the natural "bland" taste that comes with military colleges/universities.

[DanGenck]

The beautiful ones are stupid, too. Pepperdine is on the ocean, but the structure of the campus itself is morbid.

How are Harvard and Columbia not on the list? Some of the Big Ten schools should also be on there...

Whoever wrote this reminds me of a 15 year old.

[scooter]

The beautiful ones are stupid, too. Pepperdine is on the ocean, but the structure of the campus itself is morbid.

How are Harvard and Columbia not on the list? Some of the Big Ten schools should also be on there...

Whoever wrote this reminds me of a 15 year old.

Agreed. Cham-bana as well as Iowa City are holes...but Dekalb isnt much better

[OAKS]

That would be Frank Gehry - pretty well-known architect. Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, the Disney Concert Hall, Experience Music Project in Seattle, and the Weisman Art Museum at the U of Minnesota.
Very unusual designs to say the least.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry

It's in the wiki article, but I had heard before that MIT is suing the design firm because the building is leaking and collecting water and whatnot.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articl ... m_complex/

[Phantanimal]

According to the new IL rankings, the number 1 ugliest school also has the preseason #18th ranked NCAA men's lax team... Go Dragon's!! Go ALC!!

1.)Johns Hopkins 13-4
2.)Duke 17-3
3.)Virginia 12-4
4.)Georgetown 12-3
5.)North Carolina 10-6
6.)Maryland 10-6
7.)Cornell 15-1
8.)Princeton 10-4
9.)Navy 11-4
10.)Notre Dame 11-4
11.)Syracuse 5-8
12.)Albany 15-3
13.)Towson 9-7
14.)Delaware 13-6
15.)UMBC 11-6
16.)Loyola 7-6
17.)Bucknell 11-4

18.)Drexel 11-5

19.)Hofstra 6-8
20.)UMass 7-7
21.)Colgate 11-5
22.)Ohio State 9-5
23.)Army 6-9
24.)Dartmouth 5-10
25.)Denver 6-8

Full article
http://www.insidelacrosse.com/page.cfm? ... yid=171897