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Harvard University
Yale University
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Oxford University
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
National Autonomous University of Mexico
University of Colorado at Boulder
Queen’s University Belfast
Stanford University
The University of Copenhagen
Trinity College
Tsinghua University
University of British Columbia
University of Cambridge
University of Cape Town
University of Coimbra
Aarhus University
University of Edinburgh
University of Helsinki
University of Salamanca
University of St Andrews
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts
Wake Forest University
- Question: What elements contribute to the beauty of a university campus?
- Answer: What makes a university campus beautiful is often a combination of magnificent architecture, historic iconic buildings, lush gardens, famous libraries, sports facilities, and vast quads where students can mingle.
- Question: How are some university campuses tied to the history of their cities?
- Answer: Some of the world’s most fascinating campuses are so intricately woven into the fabric of the city in which they are located that the history of the city is defined by the history of the university. In those cases, the entire city became a university campus, like you would see in Oxford or Cambridge.
- Question: Which architects contributed to the design of newer university campuses?
- Answer: Newer campuses were playgrounds of some of the world’s best architects such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico or Yale University.
- Question: Are any university campuses recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Sites?
- Answer: Many of the most beautiful world campuses are recognized and preserved as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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