Texas has some of the most beautiful colleges in the U.S. The architecture that went into building these universities has plenty of history behind it. Architectural Digest did a ranking of the 64 prettiest college campuses in the nation.
Here’s how Texas held up.
Architectural Digest’s most prettiest universities in Texas
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No. 14 Baylor University: The university was named after the former Texas governor who later became president of the university.
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No. 16 Rice University: The university was founded in 1891 and endowed by Houston businessman William Marsh Rice. The Rice Institute (as it was then named) opened its doors in 1912. It became a university in 1960. In 1963 the first space science department in the United States was established at Rice.
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No. 25 Southern Methodist University: SMU was designed by the Chicago branch of the architectural firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. Robert Stewart Hyer (1860-1929), the first President of SMU, chose Georgian architecture after the Thomas Jefferson-designed architecture of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Here’s a list of more colleges and universities on the list
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University of Hawaii at Mānoa
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St. John’s College Santa Fe
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St. Olaf College
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Brown University
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Mount Holyoke College
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University of Vermont
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Swarthmore College
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Trinity College
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United States Naval Academy
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Lewis & Clark College
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Belmont University
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Sewanee: the University of the South
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Wake Forest University
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College of the Holy Cross
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Vanderbilt University
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Furman University
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Indiana University Bloomington
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Washington University in St. Louis
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Northwestern University
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University of Mississippi
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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University of Washington
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Columbia University
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Salve Regina University
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University of Pennsylvania
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University of Missouri
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Rhodes College
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University of California, Berkeley
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Cornell University
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University of Notre Dame
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University of Chicago
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Vassar College
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University of Colorado Boulder
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Duke University
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Georgetown University
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Harvard University
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University of Virginia
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Dartmouth College
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William & Mary
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Flagler College
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Colgate University
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Kenyon College
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Stanford University
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Berry College
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Princeton University
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Yale University
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Florida Southern College
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Pratt Institute
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University of San Diego
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Bard College
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Carnegie Mellon University
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University of California, Santa Cruz
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University of Richmond
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Williams College
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Wellesley College
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Howard University
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Johns Hopkins University
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Bryn Mawr
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Spelman College
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: 3 Texas universities among most prettiest on Architectural Digest list
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