Berry College near Rome has been named one of America's "Most Beautiful College Campuses" by Travel and Leisure magazine.
The magazine used a trifecta of “architecture, landscaping and surroundings” to choose the campuses that “have the power not only to sway indecisive high school students but also to attract tourists.”
The magazine said Berry, housed on 26,000 northwest Georgia acres – the world’s largest contiguous college campus – “makes prime use of its setting, with numerous reflecting pools and fountains situated nearby its beautiful English Gothic-inspired buildings.”
While Berry was the only Georgia school to make the list, several colleges and universities in adjacent states were also chosen:
Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Fla.
The University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn.
Duke University in Durham, N.C.
Furman University in Greenville, S.C.
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
Other schools on the list:
Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.
University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.
University of Cincinnati
University of San Diego
Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore.
Rice University in Houston
Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
University of Washington in Seattle
Princeton University in Princeton, N.J.
Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio
Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pa.
University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
Yale University in New Haven, Ct.
University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo.
University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis.
Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass.
College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn.
Scripps College in Claremont, Calif.
University of Chicago
Byrn Mawr College in Byrn Mawr, Pa.
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