Small Western Massachusetts College Makes List of Most Beautiful Campuses in the U.S.

Massachusetts is famous for many things, but the concentration of colleges in the Commonwealth, combined with the rest of New England, is unmatched. Some of the most prestigious and historic schools in the country are located in Massachusetts, including Harvard University, which was founded in 1636 and is widely regarded as the oldest university in the country.

At the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year, there were 146 colleges and universities in the state of Massachusetts, with campuses located throughout the state, from Cape Cod to the Berkshires.

At Massachusetts colleges, there are 481,945 students, including 332,232 undergraduate and 149,713 graduate school students, in total for the academic year 2024-2025, according to UnivStats.com

So we know Massachusetts has plenty of colleges to choose from, but just one Massachusetts college made it to the list of the nicest college campuses in the U.S.

This Massachusetts College Named Most Beautiful Campus in the Nation

Travel + Leisure recently published a list of the most beautiful college campuses in the country and only one Massachusetts college made the top 15. In fact it was the only campus from New England ranked that high on the list as well.

According to T+L, to come up with its study, the University of Melbourne Online examined Tripadvisor reviews for more than 40 major U.S. college campuses and calculated the percentage that mentioned the word “beautiful."

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1. Sewanee: The University of the South
2. Indiana University Bloomington
3. University of Colorado Boulder
4. Kenyon College
5. St. Olaf College
6. Santa Clara University
7. Rhodes College
8. William & Mary
9. Vanderbilt University
10. Pepperdine University
11. Berry College
12. Duke University
13. Cornell University
14. Rice University
15. Williams College
16. Lewis & Clark College
17. Northwestern University
18. University of Virginia
19. Princeton University
20. Swarthmore College
21. Wellesley College
22. Furman University
23. Pomona College
24. University of California, Santa Barbara
25. Wake Forest University
26. Bryn Mawr College
27. University of Oregon
28. Stanford University
29. Spelman College
30. University of Washington (Seattle)
31. Yale University
32. United States Naval Academy
33. Case Western Reserve University
34. University of Chicago
35. University of Florida
36. University of Pennsylvania
37. Purdue University
38. University of Central Florida
39. Boston University
40. Rutgers University
41. University of Texas at Austin
42. UCLA
43. The Ohio State University
44. Georgetown University
45. Texas A&M University
46. Colgate University
47. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
48. Harvard University
49. Drexel University