Massachusetts college lands on list of America’s most beautiful college campuses

WELLESLEY, Mass — For students looking to study with a view, there are fewer options better than this school of less than 3,000 students.

Wellesley College is the 19th most beautiful college campus in America, according to a new ranking from Travel and Leisure.

Located in Wellesley, the school is a private women’s liberal arts college with 56 departments and majors available.

“Only 12 miles west of Boston, Wellesley’s 500-acre campus is another world entirely, with pathways that meander through sprawling meadows and groves of conifers that surround tranquil Lake Waban, with 19th-century brick buildings tucked into the wooded hillsides. Several greenhouses, lush with tropical, subtropical, and desert plantings, stay green straight through the long northeastern winters,” writes Travel and Leisure.

Another New England school, Yale University also made the list.

The full Top 25 is as follows:

1. Stanford University, California
2. Berry College, Georgia
3. University of Notre Dame, Indiana
4. Florida Southern College, Florida
5. University of San Diego, California
6. Bard College, New York
7. Rice University, Texas
8. Cornell University, New York
9. The University of the South, Tennessee
10. University of Washington
11. Princeton University, New Jersey
12. Kenyon College, Ohio
13. Swarthmore College, Pennslyvania
14. University of Virginia
15. Yale University, Connecticut
16. Duke University, North Carolina
17. University of Colorado Boulder
18. University of Wisconsin - Madison
19. Wellesley College, Massachusetts
20. The College of William & Mary, Virginia
21. University of Chicago, Illinois
22. Bryn Mawr College, Pennslyvania
23. Furman University, South Carolina
24. Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
25. Flagler College, University

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