We ran across this article when looking at the Campus Squeeze.com blog and thought it might be entertaining. Please note: This list of Ugly Colleges was not created by us - we are just reposting this ugly colleges article from Campus Squeeze. The look of a school is subjective, and what matters the most is the education that you get out of your college loans.

 

 

20. University of Maryland-College Park（马里兰大学）- Much controversy over this one. The surrounding neighborhood isn’t great, and overall the buildings are on the downswing. It does have a nice quad and trees, but seriously. Who cares about trees? If all the stuff surrounding the trees is disgusting, doesn’t that say something about the college? You decide for yourself.

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19. Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey（新浙西州立大学罗格分校）- All about the neighborhoods; this one leaves much left to be desired. The lack of a centralized campus is the problem here, because the buildings are just scattered around New Brunswick with no set design, really, so it just seems like a bunch of ugly buildings. The Don Imus stuff didn’t help it’s reputation at all, so I kind of have pity on Rutgers. Which is why they’re 19 and not higher on this list.

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18. Texas A&M （德州农工）- There’s not much wrong this campus except for the lack of color. One poster said it’s essentially “BEIGE BEIGE everywhere…” I couldn’t agree more. And, um, “Aggieland”??? Not exactly an appealing phrase, is it? And on their website, they have an extremely strange lack of pictures of their buildings. Just keep adding fuel to my fire, Texas A&M. Knock yourselves out.

 

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17. Ithaca College（伊萨克学院）- Ithaca pales horribly next to Cornell. Their proximity just emphasizes the beauty of the architecture at Cornell and the absolute lack of any kind at Ithaca. Sure, Ithaca is “gorges” but the campus is a bunch of gray buildings that just blend into the ground. I was extremely unimpressed by Ithaca College, but Cornell looked amazing. It got just left off my list of beautiful colleges, which I apologize for. Sorry, Cornell.

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16. Rochester Institute of Technology（罗切斯特理工学院）- Ugh, this place is drab city. Sure, it’s full of smart people, but it’s just a brick campus. Gross brick that has no such spoke of “character” that brick usually has. These buildings that make up the RIT campus are all factory-esque. Not something you want to be looking at all day, especially if you’re going to be spending thousands of dollars to be established in your field.

 

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15. Northeastern University（东北大学）- Why do all these schools have to be so boring? For once, I’d just like to see a building that was intentionally designed trying to be beautiful, but just failed badly. We’ll see as we get further down on the list. Back to Northeastern. I don’t want to use the word drab again but in this case there really is lack of a better word. It’s gray and dull, and looks very utilitarian. As I look out the window and see the overcast sky as it starts to thunder and the General Mills factory pouring out smoke, that reminds me of Northeastern. You must not be able to find it when it rains in Boston. But I heard that they’re doing construction there, so hopefully it getting better. But its “ugly” rep will live in infamy. At least in my book.

 

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14. Harvey Mudd College- You’d think that because of it’s California location, it would actually be pretty. Well you couldn’t be more wrong. Being a Claremont College, that’s surprising. The buildings are old and faded, and the architecture isn’t relative to the California lifestyle. That’s too bad, considering how well some of the other colleges in the area are designed. Harvey Mudd got just slabs of concrete. It’s a pretty good school, too. What a shame.

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13. University of California, San Diego（加州大学圣地亚哥分校）- Oh my, not another California school. That’s depressing. The architechture here is nothing but obscene. They tried way too hard to be modern and it was just a miserable failure. (Hey, finally! Someone who tried!) Some of the buildings really just look like a futuristic trailer park. It’s flat out brutal. It’s too high tech for my taste; too much glass, not enough personality. You may differ, but I’m the one making the list.

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12. University of Texas at Dallas （德州大学达拉斯分校）- This campus may not be all bad, but if all the new buildings are going to be ’state of the art’ like this one, UTD is in trouble. According to the UTD website, “The NSERL is a state-of-the-art, 192,000 square foot research facility set for completion in spring 2007. UTD will draw scientists from all over the world and from all disciplines to its first-class laboratories.” Or they’ll just laugh at the “fish scale” building. Give me a break, you can’t get away with this building, even if it is The Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory.

 

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11. Drew University- I went on Drew’s website and took the tour of the campus to see if I could prove people wrong who said that Drew was ugly. Uh, no. The buildings are old: very, very old. Like old in a bad way. Old as in they look dirty. Of course, they took the pictures in beautiful fall when all the trees have orange leaves…um, so what? Trees, like I said before, do not make a beautiful campus. It’s pretty gross altoghter and trees cannot make up for that.

 

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10. Pitzer College- Uh-oh. A Claremont College. I almost didn’t believe it until I looked at the slide show on their site. Nasty plain, white buildings that are so rounded, they remind me of silos out in the middle of nowhere. They have absolutely no personality. A couple of buildings look like they were made out of scrap sheet metal. That’s not what a college campus is supposed to look like. You get enough of that in the working world.

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9. Illinois Institute of Technology（伊利诺理工大学）- This is the third “institute of technology” on the list. They need to get better architects at these schools. The low-rise buildings are so nasty and dull that they feel like a blast from the past. Some serious renovation is in dire need at this school. Only the Main building is okay, but the rest just falls short with its flat, square-ish design that feels like an office complex. Of course all of their pictures focus on the Main building, because the rest is just not camera-worthy.

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8. SUNY campuses（纽约州立大学）- Buffalo, Binghamton, and Albany- (pictures from top to bottom) I’m sandwiching these all together because I don’t think they deserve separate spots on the list. They may have some green space, but that doesn’t make up for the ugly buildings. Buffalo’s campus (I’ve driven through it multiple times, considering it is about ten minutes from my house) has some nice upperclassmen apartments on a lakeish-thing, but its buildings look like Lego land. It’s so bizzare. They are just squares that protrude from a main structure. Binghamton’s just awful in the middle of rural nowhere with random squares, again. Like that’s supposed to be a cool design. And Albany’s buildings are just drab and rundown pieces of concrete. SUNY needs some serious face lifts, the whole system and its buildings.

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7. North Carolina State University（北卡州立）- Brick, brick, brick, brick…it should be their fight song. The whole entire campus, I’m not even joking, is red brick. Is that supposed to be some kind of a character statement? it looks like a low income housing project. To throw in an accent of some kind, the designers must’ve thought, “Hey! Why not some metal?” and just put some random steel porticos around the campus and called it a day. And maybe some steel bars around the windows to make them feel smaller and more like a jail. That’s the spirit!

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6. Rowan University- Ugh. Uggggggh. One word-nasty. The school colors are brown and yellow. Brown and yellow!!! I don’t think I need to spell it out for you. You know what those colors look like. Moving on, what’s up with these buildings looking like prisons? Is that some kind of a trend? One looks like a prison, then the other looks like a born-again Christian church from the 1970’s. And what is it made out of? Hmm..red and grey brick! How original of them. These colleges need to mix it up a bit.

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5. Carnegie Mellon University（卡耐基梅隆大学）- A poster said “I don’t think it’s buildings or classrooms would meet the local building codes in my town.” That’s deplorable. Carnegie Mellon makes itself look great on is website but how unfortunate that it really isn’t. They tried to fandangle it so that people perusing the site wouldn’t see how ugly its buildings really are. But alas! They slipped. I haven’t actually been to Carnegie Mellon, just heard horrible things about it and Pittsburgh. So I decided to take a virtual tour of its residence hall. But what they didn’t realize is outside the window of a room you can see the god-awful brick red building that looks like something you’d see at Rikers. What else is new?

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4. Brandeis University（布兰戴斯大学）- Way-out weird design all over campus. Each building tried to be modern and contemporary with a mix of glass and brick, but it just looks unfriendly and cold. Which is actually a good description of Boston in the winter. I’ve heard from multiple students that say Brandeis is a horrible campus and fairly ugly. And the sad part is they try to mix a contemporary smorgasbord in with a castle! That does not work. And…oh my, a cottage. A demolished cottage with another cottage in the background. So Brandeis is: A modern, contemporary, medival, country college campus. If you’re as confused as I am…

 

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3. Southern Connecticut State- Yeah, I don’t want to hear it. Sure, they’re doing construction, making it look nice, but it’s still as ugly as ever to me. It has a complete lack of visual interest and is currently dirty and filthy. More gross brick composes basically all of campus, and don’t even get me started on the dorms. And New Haven? Dull. I mean, how can Southern Connecticut State even compete with Yale in the same neighborhood? At least Yale tried to make their buildings architecturally interesting by pouring acid all over them. Southern Connecticut State’s campus = pathetic.

 

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2. University of Massachusetts-Amherst-（麻省大学阿穆赫斯特分校）The UMass dorms look like the projects, says a student. Another poster says they’d vomit touring the UMass campus in March/April without the snow covering it up. The hideous buildings make up somewhat of an industrial park. The buildings are old and faded, lack originality, and are all around not worthy of a higher institution of learning.

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1. Drexel University（德雷萨尔大学）- Won Ugliest Campus in the Country in 2002 and guess what? No one made any changes. They still have prison-like dorms (shocker) and massive orange, yes orange, brick buildings from the ’70’s. It’s small, sporadic, and basically Philadelphia’s urban dumpster called a higher place of learning. That’s embarrassing. The people of Drexel (the administrators, not the students) need to wake up and look around their filthy campus and shape it up.

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Thanks to Campus Squeeze for letting us use the list and remember, don’t select your choice of school solely on looks, rather choose based around education and overall experience. Also remember to think of smart borrowing and exhaust all scholarships and grant before taking student loans .. no matter how ugly or beautiful your college is!

 

特别提醒：大学读的不是校园，读的是“大师”（学术素养的提高和心智模式的成熟）；

 

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