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Of the ones I've been to, Duke and UVA would be up there.
It's a very interesting question, since I guess a lot depends on what type of landscape you like as person, since you have your quintessential college campus/town, then you have the schools in huge urban cities, or schools along the coast and the ocean or schools up against a mountain range or in the middle of the desert.
When my oldest was looking a few years ago she was focused on small liberal arts colleges and we visited a lot of them, my top 5 for beautiful campuses
1. Elon College
2. Furman
3. Washington and Lee
4. Roanoke
5. Swarthmore
She ended up choosing another which is also a gorgeous campus which is itself an arboretum and I have the pleasure of working on the Duke campus also not so shabby...
The cool thing about Clemson is it is right on a large lake. The two lake dikes are nice places to walk. There are also several lake beach areas. There is a large marina right across the lake and you can rent boats there.
Clemson has the largest university experimental forest surrounding a college campus. It is 17,500 acres and has numerous hiking and biking trails and a few small waterfalls.
Clemson has one of the top ranked college golf courses and it runs out by the lake.
Clemson is near the Blue Ridge mountains and you can see them from various points on campus and in town. The whitewater river Chattooga (the movie Deliverance was filmed on it) is about 1 hour away.
Given Clemson has pretty mild winters, if a student likes getting outside, Clemson is a great place to go to college.
I haven't seen too many. The University of Washington's Seattle campus is very nice. A central grassy quadrangle, rose gardens surrounding a founntain, a bit of cedar forest in one corner, a quiet hidden lawn surrounded by trees, a waterfront center lakeside, among wetlands with nesting ducks...
It's lost a bit of greenery recently, due to new buildings being built. But it's such a big campus, that there's still a lot left.
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