The US higher education system is the hallmark of the country, and the distinguishing feature of many American universities is rightfully considered to be their campuses - spacious and picturesque student cities with a population of many thousands and a rich infrastructure that allows you to never leave the university during all 4-5 years of study.
In fact, there is a professor at MIT who joined the school in the early 1980s and has never been on campus since! Add to his impressive tenure the 7 or 8 years he spent there as a student, and you get a minimum of 50 years.
We present to your attention a small overview of the best campuses of American universities. We hope that you will like them and awaken in you the desire to go somewhere. Why not, in fact?
Stanford University
The pearl of California, located among the hills east of San Francisco. Californians like to amaze the imagination of neophytes with all sorts of "selves" - the longest bridge or something else. Also Stanford University has the most beautiful entrance group: you get off in the parking lot and walk past two rows of palm trees on Palm Drive to the mosaic-decorated Memorial Church... Wow, goosebumps!
The university was founded almost a century and a half ago and is considered one of the best in the world for the preparation of lawyers, doctors and business managers. Among its employees are Nobel and Pulitzer laureates, and graduates are evenly represented in the management of the largest American corporations, and in IT they make up the vast majority. But this is not enough for Stanford: every year it is in the top ten in the world in a variety of indicators, and sometimes in their total.
Berry College
One of the largest universities in the Old South was founded in 1902, specializing in social sciences, primarily economic, social, and political studies. It offers almost a hundred programs in four faculties, as well as preparatory courses and a double degree together with Kennesaw State University.
But the most impressive thing about Berry is, of course, its campus. Not only is it just huge (11 thousand hectares!) and students have their own mountains, rivers, lakes and forests, and not only in number, but also with the money of Henry Ford, amazing buildings in the style of classic English Gothic were built here from gray sandstone and multi-colored bricks. The sight is simply amazing, and it is a pleasure to study here (students even have their own ski station and a pier with a yacht club on one of the lakes).
University of Notre Dame
This university is even older - it was founded in 1842. Its five faculties teach liberal arts, architecture and engineering, and business. It is famous for academic exchange programs, allowing you to go to dozens of countries around the world, as well as double diplomas from one and a half hundred universities in Africa, South America, China and Japan, as well as the Middle East and Europe. And, of course, its campus, the heart of which is the neo-Gothic Basilica of the Sacred Heart, the sparkling crystal dome on the central administrative building and numerous squares, fountains and shady alleys, where it is so pleasant to sit on a bench or take a walk after classes.
Rice University
One of the greenest universities in the southern part of the country is located in the capital of the black gold-rich state of Texas. Ironically, hundreds of thousands of local trees — from democratic maples and hickory trees familiar to Americans to oaks and elms — were planted precisely on oil revenues (the state has special funds aimed at supporting secondary and higher education, so public universities in Texas can boast of excellent conditions and extensive support programs for students). The university offers a wide variety of programs, closely cooperates with the real sector of the economy and conducts research and scientific activities (in Houston alone, Rice works with 75 institutes and centers, and in total he has more than 120 partners in the country). One of NASA's "home" universities.
The architecture of the university is quite unusual: here you can see stylized Romanesque and pseudo-Romanesque arches, and in general, while walking around the campus, you get the feeling that you have been transported somewhere to Italy, Croatia or Romania.
University of California, San Diego
While most university campuses combine different architectural styles (both to show diversity and because the facilities were built at different times), the University of San Diego has chosen one for itself: the Spanish Renaissance, in which the sophistication of the facades and the elegance of the towers are accentuated by details of carved wood and wrought iron. Patios with palm trees and shaded long walking galleries give a refreshing coolness with light shades of tropical paradise, and modern classrooms are equipped with powerful ventilation systems, so the heat simply has no chance to get inside and spoil everything.
The architectural dominant of the campus is a church and a chapel, which dome is the color of sky azure at a distance of several tens of kilometers from the city, but there are many other remarkable objects that stand out both from an architectural and scientific point of view.
San Diego is the citadel of business and the humanities. Thirty-four percent of students attend the San Diego School of Business, a remarkable place that regularly makes the front pages of the world's financial newspapers thanks to its $200,000 college portfolio of shares that students manage together.
Cornell University
On the main campus of Cornell University in the town of Ithaca, New York, there are both historical and modern buildings. In addition, there is a colorful Cascadilla gorge with a cascade of 8 picturesque waterfalls on its territory.
There is enough space on campus to accommodate almost 20 thousand students. In addition, Cornell is the twentieth place in the latest QS ranking, with 130 programs, among which the strongest courses are considered to be in engineering, mathematics, natural sciences, and agricultural sciences.
Southern University
Southern University in Tennessee, known as Sewani, has a vast territory. The campus with an area of more than 5,260 hectares is located on the Cumberland Plateau, so the beauty of the Gothic architecture here is wonderfully set off by the surrounding landscape.
Sewanee specializes in the liberal arts, offering 37 majors and 42 minors, as well as preparatory programs in business, law, and medicine. The most popular areas are economics, English literature, and international studies. The university finances summer and research internships, students can study abroad on exchange.
