These 3 Texas universities among most prettiest campuses on Architectural Digest list

Marley Malenfant , Austin American-Statesman
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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

  • No. 14 Baylor University: The university was named after the former Texas governor who later became president of the university.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • University of Hawaii at Mānoa

  • St. John’s College Santa Fe

  • St. Olaf College 

  • Brown University

  • Mount Holyoke College

  • University of Vermont

  • Swarthmore College

  • Trinity College

  • United States Naval Academy

  • Lewis & Clark College

  • Belmont University

  • Sewanee: the University of the South 

  • Wake Forest University

  • College of the Holy Cross

  • Vanderbilt University

  • Furman University 

  • Indiana University Bloomington

  • Washington University in St. Louis

  • Northwestern University

  • University of Mississippi 

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • University of Washington

  • Columbia University

  • Salve Regina University 

  • University of Pennsylvania

  • University of Missouri

  • Rhodes College

  • University of California, Berkeley 

  • Cornell University

  • University of Notre Dame

  • University of Chicago

  • Vassar College

  • University of Colorado Boulder

  • Duke University

  • Georgetown University

  • Harvard University

  • University of Virginia

  • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Dartmouth College 

  • William & Mary 

  • Flagler College 

  • Colgate University

  • Kenyon College

  • Stanford University

  • Berry College

  • Princeton University

  • Yale University

  • Florida Southern College

  • Pratt Institute

  • University of San Diego

  • Bard College 

  • Carnegie Mellon University

  • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • University of Richmond

  • Williams College

  • Wellesley College

  • Howard University

  • Johns Hopkins University

  • Bryn Mawr

  • Spelman College

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: 3 Texas universities among most prettiest on Architectural Digest list