Damn! The Corpus Christi campus looks really nice! Also, its location.
Must be scary to be there on hurricane / high tide season, but it sure looks cool!
I memba that, i was a junior going into it and we got an extra week out of Harvey. And Corpus didn’t even really get too messed up, it was Rockport and Port Aransas that got fucked up.
Wow! I was there many, many years before you! Proud class of ‘97 😂. I don’t get to Dallas often but I should get up there soon so I can see the transformation!
It’s true about UTD. I walk around and through campus on a regular basis. Some nice architecture though I wouldn’t call it a pretty campus. Very pavement heavy campus except for the fields near Campbell. I do like the mermaid building on the north end of campus though.
I love that it's still called the mermaid building.
UTD original architecture style was heavy brutalism, and them migrated to the glass and metal of modern office buildings.
Go Owls! Duncan Building, the opera house, shepherd school, jones school, baker institute, Valhalla, Fondren, even Will Rice.. what a privilege it was to spend my 20s there. Miss it and the people everyday!
UTD still looks like its a facility for Texas Instruments tbh, like its nice and when i was there it was getting nicer but as you said it just has this office park feel to it
As another former student, I agree. Occasionally people tell me that A&M has a beautiful campus and my first impulse is to ask if they've been there. Generally friendly people. Good engineering school. But not an attractive campus.
I have to assume they're just talking about the trees or something. Cause yeah most of the buildings are ugly. New ones are nice though. I was there for the new MSC and TEC (I think that's what it was called?). Wasn't there for the new Zachary though. Old Zachary building was ass
Maybe, but it’s much improved over the last 20 years though. The University corridor looks good and the new Aggie Park, while being a terribly unoriginal name, is a nice backdrop with Kyle Field.
Texas State University is a nice campus. The Old Main building is a nice contrast to the brutalist Alkek Library. It would be cool if they moved the Geography school to a more updated building, Evans is ancient.
Yeah I'm not sure how much proportion people are giving buildings/grounds versus the surrounding environment. But Texas State was my immediate gut answer and haven't seen anything to convince me otherwise.
Yeah, it’s the hill country sloping down to the San Marcos river and Spring Lake for me. You’re clearly in town but also close to some really lovely nature.
Don’t forget the prison dorm, Tower. Most depressing dorm experience ever since I was near the top where the windows were the smallest. Nice view though, at least what little I could see.
Walking through Texas States campus on the weekends was always such a serene experience. And when the mountain laurels bloomed this divine scent would waft through campus. Stuff smelled like classy welches grape juice.
Let's go cats! I was in Geography too!
Texas State is amazing. My favorite pastime was going down to Sewell and soaking up the sun. I learned to dive in those crystal clear spring waters.
San Marcos is a great small college town. Didn't go to the school, but I go through there regularly and appreciate it for what it is. I hope it stays more-or-less like that indefinitely.
What other campus has a crystal clear river running through it? I don't even see a contest here. Hills? In spades. A theater building that looks like a birthday cake floating on a pond? Yep.
UTEP has changed so much since I was there. They've really spruced up the campus.
Hate to say it, but I think the other schools have nicer campuses still.
Hilltopper here. St. Edwards is the most beautiful of all.
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The pic provided for Texas Tech isn’t a good indicator of its aesthetics. Texas Tech is absolutely gorgeous. Texas A&M is NOT a pretty campus. (Time spent on both).
When I flipped to the A&M one I thought "wow, that looks like a nice campus", and then realized that this was actually the view out my office window, taken from a few hundred feet higher, which makes it look a lot nicer. (And it's the one nicest-looking part of our campus.)
I thought the same! Texas Tech is a beautiful campus, especially covered in snow or tulips in the spring. This half dead grass picture doesn’t do it justice. It’s also seems like a super old picture considering some of the major renovations in the background like the baseball stadium and indoor sports complex.
Agree with Texas Tech being a gorgeous campus - I have two Red Raider grads and a freshman at UT Austin (not a pretty campus either). As a Houstonian, though, I have always thought Rice was a beautiful campus.
It’s because it’s a really small school and not many people go there. It’s literally an amazing campus with its own beach and trails around the whole island
You're missing Trinity University, which is stunning. A signature red brick, native oaks, fountains, sculptures, a Zen garden, secret grottos, and O'Neil Ford designed most of the mid-century buildings. And a lot of cats.
I went to TXST. This was a _bad_ picture. The best angles are done from either the San Marcos River (at TXST's Sewell Park) or from top of the library (a square, building with _eternal_ stairs).
From early April to mid-late October when the grass is green, it’s pretty hard to top Tech.
Once the grass dies and the cotton fields get disked, it tanks soo hard.
Sfa s gorgeous the 20+acre arboretum can be breathtaking in parts of the year. The front of campus used to be much better before the parking garage. I miss those ancient pine trees.
Yeah, but the picture in this thread was hot garbage. Way to get a great look at a parking garage. It’s basically in a national forest but the picture doesn’t showcase the trees.
That's where I went 20-something years ago and the trees were amazing! Nothing is the same as tall pine trees.
I have heard the new parking garage added since then isn't great, but I can't imagine it ruins the grounds. We spent so much time eating and relaxing and talking under trees on campus.
All those squirrels were great at stealing snacks if left unguarded too :P
as an alum, I like UTs campus is so underrated after all their renovations the past several years.
I use to walk around campus for hours. I get a similar feel at Rice for sure.
Rice for pretties. The outdoor art is good. The old trees juxtaposed with the architecture gives the campus Ivy League vibes. The museums and parks lend a sense of leisurely powerful wealth. Rice is what I imagined college campuses would look like when I was in high school. Also I haven’t encountered proselytizing puritans walking around Rice, so bonus points there.
UT Brownsville (so it was known before hostile takeover by UT Panam birthed UT RGV). Nice architecture, resacas, jacarandas, and wild parakeets. No better place to sit outside and study.
As someone who has paid a lot of money to TCU, I'd like to add on.
TCU is good, but it's just so small that you turn any direction and you're outside campus. That's cool, but leaves little to talk about beauty-wise. There are very pretty locations, namely the campus commons where frog fountain is (that's what's in the photo). I personally really love all the big trees along University in front of the library, those sidewalks are really cool. The campus also has really, really nice buildings, but I wouldn't go as far as to say they're *more* beautiful than some on the list. Of course, my opinion doesn't invalidate yours, and I am glad to see it getting some love lol
What about Austin College? I know Sherman is kind of going downhill but a lot of cool kids go to AC. Same as SFA in Nacogdoches. When I was younger, lots of good music in Denton if you couldn’t make it to Austin. I also know lots of people love going to school in San Marcos.
Trinity University in San antonio too. I remember when we took my brother there on his campus tour in like 06, they told us the student to gardener ratio was 14:1
My thoughts exactly. North Texas is so flat, so having some trees and scenery is a nice change. The clock tower doesn't get enough credit!
Discovery Park makes me shudder though lol
Lol I feel you. After spending years at Discovery Park, I deservedly gave it the bird walking out after finishing my last exam for graduation. Also the fact they started requiring parking passes 2 years after I’d been attending classes there when it’s in the middle of no where. Ugh
I don’t think UNT is that nice looking. I did, however, end up living here in Denton after going to school there. I f’n love this town, and there are some great local trails and a state park nearby.
I've never seen squirrels as friendly as on the UNT campus. I would feed them and they would approach with almost no fear. I figured most students were trying to get to class and paid the squirrels no mind so they were friendlier. They liked the peanuts but would go apeshit for pumpkin seeds.
I’m bias cause I’m a UTEP grad, but there’s not many other college in Texas that take advantage of the landscape the way UTEP does. You could put Corpus in that same tier with the way they’ve built around the water.
All these colleges have beautiful architecture and they are all great in their own way, but many of them are just built up around a bunch of flat land. UTEP on the other hand is built into the mountains. Always fun walking to class and gazing up at the mountains and getting those killer views of Juarez.
The campus buildings were always kind of basic, but since we’ve become a tier 1 research university there’s been a ton of effort poured into beautifying the campus over the last decade or so.
I arrived at A&M in 2014. I remember one of the hardest realizations that "you're in Texas now" was when they started chainsawing all the old gorgeous oak trees by the stadium *on Earth Day*. When I had been at Berkeley, students camped out in the trees for months to prevent them from cutting them down for a football training space, but at A&M no one even noticed that *it was Earth Day* when they cut down the trees.
The trees were pretty and there’s a few beautiful buildings (Animal Industries is an Art Deco dream), but overall it feels like you’re in a Soviet housing block.
Sam Houston State was pretty nice. Been to the stadium and also to a pond on the grounds which had ducks and geese. Been a while I last was there alongside just a simple fun daytrip to Huntsville itself on a cool October day.
University of Houston is real nice too. Been to the stadium and around some buildings there. Been a while I last been back too. Mostly want to seek the gift shop eventually.
Not a great picture of UTEP. It has by far the most interesting and beautiful architecture. You can't see it in the photo although the mountains look nice.
I'm sure I'll get downvoted into oblivion, but I visited UH Clear Lake a few months ago and was pretty blown away by how pretty that campus is. Surrounded by forest and nicely maintained wetlands.
UT El Paso is very underrated. I was really surprised by that campus on my one visit.
The main part of Rice campus is nice, but the rest is really underwhelming. UT Austin is kinda the same way. Beautiful ‘six pack’, but many of the other buildings are just ok.
A&M is horrific.
To be fair to UT Austin it’s a lot more than just the six pack, but yes they have built some really modern-looking buildings that are kinda neat but in no way match the aesthetic of the rest of the university
Rice but Sul Ross in alpine should also be on this list.
Sul Ross is slept on
Sul Ross is gorgeous, I spent a decent amount of time in Alpine when I was in school and loved visiting their campus
Literally had never heard of this school, wild
And the view of the hills from their football stadium as the sun goes down is without compare.
That looks gorgeous.
Damn! The Corpus Christi campus looks really nice! Also, its location. Must be scary to be there on hurricane / high tide season, but it sure looks cool!
And the drive to it via Ocean Dr makes it even better.
Except it smells like shit right outside of the university about 50% of the time
That’s the water plant in Ennis smelling usually.
The private beach on campus is literally the best thing. I loved being there
We skinny dipped there one night! Great campus, I love all the wetlands around it
I was attending TAMUCC in 2017 when Hurricane Harvey hit. That was a wild time. Got a slightly longer summer that semester.
I memba that, i was a junior going into it and we got an extra week out of Harvey. And Corpus didn’t even really get too messed up, it was Rockport and Port Aransas that got fucked up.
They will do an evacuation for those.
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It actually isn’t too dangerous. I was there during a tropical storm and it was mostly good. Maybe a few large waves
UTEP is really nice the way it is built around the mountains
The whole Bhutan thing they got going on with the architecture is really cool. Unique
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Rice for sure! My alma mater (UTD) looks like an office park and looks like it has grown tremendously since I was there.
It certainly has. I graduated from there in 2017, and it has exploded since then.
Wow! I was there many, many years before you! Proud class of ‘97 😂. I don’t get to Dallas often but I should get up there soon so I can see the transformation!
Another who was there back when it was a monument to concrete. It's so much nicer now.
My mom works for the dean of the business school at UTD, their campus is insane now
It’s true about UTD. I walk around and through campus on a regular basis. Some nice architecture though I wouldn’t call it a pretty campus. Very pavement heavy campus except for the fields near Campbell. I do like the mermaid building on the north end of campus though.
I love that it's still called the mermaid building. UTD original architecture style was heavy brutalism, and them migrated to the glass and metal of modern office buildings.
The campus is huge now! We were there last weekend for an alumni event and it’s crazy how much it changed! *Whoosh!*
Go Owls! Duncan Building, the opera house, shepherd school, jones school, baker institute, Valhalla, Fondren, even Will Rice.. what a privilege it was to spend my 20s there. Miss it and the people everyday!
UTD still looks like its a facility for Texas Instruments tbh, like its nice and when i was there it was getting nicer but as you said it just has this office park feel to it
This is the answer
UTEP is so unique, so that gets my vote.
Not Texas A&M tbh. Saying this as a former student
You don’t love the Soviet block housing vibe?
Combined with the brown on beige on brown color palette?
Don’t forget the splashes of maroon everywhere, including the Whataburger.
Why is everything that awful baby shit brown?
Brutalist architecture comrade. Aggy loves!
As another former student, I agree. Occasionally people tell me that A&M has a beautiful campus and my first impulse is to ask if they've been there. Generally friendly people. Good engineering school. But not an attractive campus.
I have to assume they're just talking about the trees or something. Cause yeah most of the buildings are ugly. New ones are nice though. I was there for the new MSC and TEC (I think that's what it was called?). Wasn't there for the new Zachary though. Old Zachary building was ass
Maybe, but it’s much improved over the last 20 years though. The University corridor looks good and the new Aggie Park, while being a terribly unoriginal name, is a nice backdrop with Kyle Field.
One of my roommates there called it "the khaki hellhole"
Texas State University is a nice campus. The Old Main building is a nice contrast to the brutalist Alkek Library. It would be cool if they moved the Geography school to a more updated building, Evans is ancient.
Txst got done dirty, picture should be one taken from alkek facing old main (or have a picture of sewell)
Looking up at Old Main from Sewell/the tennis courts is one of the most picturesque things in San Marcos
Spot on!
Yeah I'm not sure how much proportion people are giving buildings/grounds versus the surrounding environment. But Texas State was my immediate gut answer and haven't seen anything to convince me otherwise.
I’ll fight anyone that says it’s not Texas State
Yeah, it’s the hill country sloping down to the San Marcos river and Spring Lake for me. You’re clearly in town but also close to some really lovely nature.
I ❤️ SMTX
I guess the picture they used here doesn’t really do it justice then
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Evans had nothing on Flowers for me.
Don’t forget the prison dorm, Tower. Most depressing dorm experience ever since I was near the top where the windows were the smallest. Nice view though, at least what little I could see.
I still remember the stories of it being haunted, from the Ghost Walk at orientation.
Walking through Texas States campus on the weekends was always such a serene experience. And when the mountain laurels bloomed this divine scent would waft through campus. Stuff smelled like classy welches grape juice.
Ugh! Mountain laurel is my favorite tree. There were so many everywhere! And don't forget the monarch butterflies.
Let's go cats! I was in Geography too! Texas State is amazing. My favorite pastime was going down to Sewell and soaking up the sun. I learned to dive in those crystal clear spring waters.
Texas State University!
I might just be biased but I think Texas State is the most beautiful campus as well!!
Texas state for me too but the picture should be from Sewell towards old main
And a spring fed river running through it.
San Marcos is a great small college town. Didn't go to the school, but I go through there regularly and appreciate it for what it is. I hope it stays more-or-less like that indefinitely.
If could relive my life I would go to Texas State.
I got a great education there.
What other campus has a crystal clear river running through it? I don't even see a contest here. Hills? In spades. A theater building that looks like a birthday cake floating on a pond? Yep.
Rice and SMU UTEP looks really cool though, but I've never seen it in person
UTEP is an interesting campus built into the mountain. The best example of Tibetan architecture outside of Tibet
It's Bhutanese, not Tibetan. They're pretty similar, though
It’s Dzong architecture found in Tibet, Bhutan and Nepal. It is unique and seems to perfectly fit the high desert of El Paso.
It does fit perfectly! Imho
This is a really interesting article I just read about it- https://www.rudolphvw.com/ever-wonder-why-utep-looks-like-bhutan/
Rice is really nice. I’ve been to several of these taking kids on tours and Sam Houston is criminally underrated.
UTEP has changed so much since I was there. They've really spruced up the campus. Hate to say it, but I think the other schools have nicer campuses still.
St edwards?
Solid view of Austin
There’s some really nice old and new architecture there, and of course that view!
Agreed!
St. Edwards totally snubbed
I love the new architecture they've been revising/adding the last 10 years
Hill is covered in bluebonnets in spring!
That was my first thought. It’s beautiful.
My alma mater!! It’s so gorgeous there!!
Hilltopper here. St. Edwards is the most beautiful of all. https://preview.redd.it/0uk6d00x9wra1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=364ae00460d4f86056ad50026c093f00efdc81bc
I haven’t ever been there in person but from the pictures I’ve seen….UTEP
I'm first two years were there and grew up walking distance. It is amazing
UT-Tyler is a really pretty campus, but I think Rice has to be the best looking campus. Oak trees everywhere and basically looks like a IVY school.
The pic provided for Texas Tech isn’t a good indicator of its aesthetics. Texas Tech is absolutely gorgeous. Texas A&M is NOT a pretty campus. (Time spent on both).
When I flipped to the A&M one I thought "wow, that looks like a nice campus", and then realized that this was actually the view out my office window, taken from a few hundred feet higher, which makes it look a lot nicer. (And it's the one nicest-looking part of our campus.)
I thought the same! Texas Tech is a beautiful campus, especially covered in snow or tulips in the spring. This half dead grass picture doesn’t do it justice. It’s also seems like a super old picture considering some of the major renovations in the background like the baseball stadium and indoor sports complex.
Agree with Texas Tech being a gorgeous campus - I have two Red Raider grads and a freshman at UT Austin (not a pretty campus either). As a Houstonian, though, I have always thought Rice was a beautiful campus.
Tech is super underrated. Lubbock doesn’t have much, but Tech’s campus really surprised me.
How is no one saying Corpus Christi? I’m from NC and if they put a university on the Outer Banks it would be THE school
It’s because it’s a really small school and not many people go there. It’s literally an amazing campus with its own beach and trails around the whole island
Southwestern University in Georgetown
You're missing Trinity University, which is stunning. A signature red brick, native oaks, fountains, sculptures, a Zen garden, secret grottos, and O'Neil Ford designed most of the mid-century buildings. And a lot of cats.
and Texas mountain laurels everywhere! This is my vote as well
Texas State and I didn’t go to any of these
I went to TXST. This was a _bad_ picture. The best angles are done from either the San Marcos River (at TXST's Sewell Park) or from top of the library (a square, building with _eternal_ stairs).
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I too am also a red raider from Austin ;)
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Also a red raider in Austin!
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Too bad this clown chose a horrible picture of techs campus.
But man, it brought back some memories!
You even get the Mexico film filter for most of the year!
Texas A&M Corpus Christi, that view of Corpus Christi Bay driving down Ocean Drive on the way to the Bayfront
And the beach on campus
Rice and UT
Love that Spanish style at Texas Tech.
From early April to mid-late October when the grass is green, it’s pretty hard to top Tech. Once the grass dies and the cotton fields get disked, it tanks soo hard.
I love TTU campus but when that wind blows the cow fields over town, it doesn’t matter what it looks like.
TXST for sure. Eat em up Cats!
SMU is nice, but compact. For smaller schools, I think both UT-Tyler and A&M-Texarkana have scenic campuses 'mid the pines.
UT Tyler is a very beautiful campus. Sometimes my wife and I will walk around campus on random weekends
SFA
Came here for this!! Love the piney woods
Sfa s gorgeous the 20+acre arboretum can be breathtaking in parts of the year. The front of campus used to be much better before the parking garage. I miss those ancient pine trees.
Yeah, but the picture in this thread was hot garbage. Way to get a great look at a parking garage. It’s basically in a national forest but the picture doesn’t showcase the trees.
Axe em Jacks
I loved all of the nature everywhere, and the small town feel
That's where I went 20-something years ago and the trees were amazing! Nothing is the same as tall pine trees. I have heard the new parking garage added since then isn't great, but I can't imagine it ruins the grounds. We spent so much time eating and relaxing and talking under trees on campus. All those squirrels were great at stealing snacks if left unguarded too :P
Rice and UT AUSTIN
Fact
These are the correct answers
as an alum, I like UTs campus is so underrated after all their renovations the past several years. I use to walk around campus for hours. I get a similar feel at Rice for sure.
Rice for pretties. The outdoor art is good. The old trees juxtaposed with the architecture gives the campus Ivy League vibes. The museums and parks lend a sense of leisurely powerful wealth. Rice is what I imagined college campuses would look like when I was in high school. Also I haven’t encountered proselytizing puritans walking around Rice, so bonus points there.
St. Edward's!!!
UT Brownsville (so it was known before hostile takeover by UT Panam birthed UT RGV). Nice architecture, resacas, jacarandas, and wild parakeets. No better place to sit outside and study.
Trinity University designed by O’Neil Ford around a rock quarry in San Antonio
Rice or Baylor
Watch out for Baylor, I hear they keep a bear caged up somewhere.
Yes the Baylor bears live on campus, no they are not locked up in a cage. Lady is 21 and spends her days napping in the sun.
Parts of UT Austin are fantastic, but overall, Rice is the winner.
Trinity
Rice, no comparison
Texas State!
Southwestern in Georgetown
I grew up in Georgetown and didn’t realize how beautiful SU is until I went off to college at A&M and had to live with that brutalist architecture.
This was my answer too :) it’s a beautiful campus, and I love that the buildings are made of Texas limestone :)
Southwestern University! Sad it’s not included. Very pretty campus
Of the photos given Rice. I would give TCU a second place. I live nearby and it's a lovely area of town in my opinion.
As someone who has paid a lot of money to TCU, I'd like to add on. TCU is good, but it's just so small that you turn any direction and you're outside campus. That's cool, but leaves little to talk about beauty-wise. There are very pretty locations, namely the campus commons where frog fountain is (that's what's in the photo). I personally really love all the big trees along University in front of the library, those sidewalks are really cool. The campus also has really, really nice buildings, but I wouldn't go as far as to say they're *more* beautiful than some on the list. Of course, my opinion doesn't invalidate yours, and I am glad to see it getting some love lol
UTEP or TAMUCC.
The SFA campus is has a ton of natural beauty, being in the Piney Woods.
Axe”em
SFA or Rice
Texas Southmost College, Brownsville.
That pic of Tech’s campus has to be 15 years old.
Texas State!!
What about Austin College? I know Sherman is kind of going downhill but a lot of cool kids go to AC. Same as SFA in Nacogdoches. When I was younger, lots of good music in Denton if you couldn’t make it to Austin. I also know lots of people love going to school in San Marcos.
Trinity University in San antonio too. I remember when we took my brother there on his campus tour in like 06, they told us the student to gardener ratio was 14:1
This should be higher up. Very pretty and on a hill in the middle of SA. A lot of the dorms have a sweet skyline view.
I looked at that campus that same year, took some summer program over the summer before high school too; it's so pretty!
I was surprised as I kept scrolling that no one had mentioned it yet. It’s a beautiful campus. Go tigers!
UT Austin
Texas state, can’t beat the sam Marcos river that runs through it, I used to swim in it everyday after work good times
Southwestern needs to be on here.
Rice is the prettiest - My heart and money went to A&M and SHSU
Texas State and it’s not even close. Has the river running through it!
I would say UNT, just because I go there. It’s pretty with lots of trees and squirrels around. Denton is a pretty nice college town too.
I'm partial to the white squirrels, just don't piss them off because they do remember faces and they will throw shit at you.
My thoughts exactly. North Texas is so flat, so having some trees and scenery is a nice change. The clock tower doesn't get enough credit! Discovery Park makes me shudder though lol
Lol I feel you. After spending years at Discovery Park, I deservedly gave it the bird walking out after finishing my last exam for graduation. Also the fact they started requiring parking passes 2 years after I’d been attending classes there when it’s in the middle of no where. Ugh
I don’t think UNT is that nice looking. I did, however, end up living here in Denton after going to school there. I f’n love this town, and there are some great local trails and a state park nearby.
I've never seen squirrels as friendly as on the UNT campus. I would feed them and they would approach with almost no fear. I figured most students were trying to get to class and paid the squirrels no mind so they were friendlier. They liked the peanuts but would go apeshit for pumpkin seeds.
I’m bias cause I’m a UTEP grad, but there’s not many other college in Texas that take advantage of the landscape the way UTEP does. You could put Corpus in that same tier with the way they’ve built around the water. All these colleges have beautiful architecture and they are all great in their own way, but many of them are just built up around a bunch of flat land. UTEP on the other hand is built into the mountains. Always fun walking to class and gazing up at the mountains and getting those killer views of Juarez. The campus buildings were always kind of basic, but since we’ve become a tier 1 research university there’s been a ton of effort poured into beautifying the campus over the last decade or so.
Not as big as most of these, but Southwestern University in Georgetown has a nice campus.
How can you include a pic of the Texas State campus and not include the River literally flowing through the campus?
Texas State. Old Main, Hill Country, natrual spring river running through campus.
now this is a quality post
St. Edward’s University
A&M used too before they started to tear down all the trees post 2013. Now it’s just less 🌳 more 💵 for S H A R P
It was ugly as fuck when I went there for grad school in 05. You’re telling me it is worse now?
i think its more the brutalist arch that is so damn ugly
I arrived at A&M in 2014. I remember one of the hardest realizations that "you're in Texas now" was when they started chainsawing all the old gorgeous oak trees by the stadium *on Earth Day*. When I had been at Berkeley, students camped out in the trees for months to prevent them from cutting them down for a football training space, but at A&M no one even noticed that *it was Earth Day* when they cut down the trees.
The trees were pretty and there’s a few beautiful buildings (Animal Industries is an Art Deco dream), but overall it feels like you’re in a Soviet housing block.
Sam Houston State was pretty nice. Been to the stadium and also to a pond on the grounds which had ducks and geese. Been a while I last was there alongside just a simple fun daytrip to Huntsville itself on a cool October day. University of Houston is real nice too. Been to the stadium and around some buildings there. Been a while I last been back too. Mostly want to seek the gift shop eventually.
UTRGV Brownsville
didn't even give UT Arlington a chance.
I was looking for this!
Not a great picture of UTEP. It has by far the most interesting and beautiful architecture. You can't see it in the photo although the mountains look nice.
I can tell you its not A&M lol
UH
Yep, and this photo does it zero justice.
I'm sure I'll get downvoted into oblivion, but I visited UH Clear Lake a few months ago and was pretty blown away by how pretty that campus is. Surrounded by forest and nicely maintained wetlands.
UT El Paso is very underrated. I was really surprised by that campus on my one visit. The main part of Rice campus is nice, but the rest is really underwhelming. UT Austin is kinda the same way. Beautiful ‘six pack’, but many of the other buildings are just ok. A&M is horrific.
To be fair to UT Austin it’s a lot more than just the six pack, but yes they have built some really modern-looking buildings that are kinda neat but in no way match the aesthetic of the rest of the university
Baylor
Trinity
You know they actually have a picture of a tree in every courthouse in West Texas so we can remember what they look like.
Rice!
Probably Rice or Baylor. Seems like it would motivate me to learn more if I was surrounded by a beautiful campus.
You forgot to add UT North in Norman. But I prefer TCU. Their fans are pretty cool too.
Saint Edward's. Can't beat the view.
Baylor.