It something to note that huge, huge California has its four most prominent, full universities located totally within its two huge metro areas (LA and Bay), two private, two public.

Which of the big four (or the Pac-10 four, if you prefer) do you like the best:
Cal, Stanford, UCLA, SC?

Which has the most "California feel" to it (to me, that would have to be The Farm in Palo Alto, with UCLA in 2nd)?

Which seems most eastern in layout? (my vote: Cal)

Which of the other California campuses rival these (I'd would definitely say UCSB and, for setting alone, UCSC)?

Which do you like the least (perhaps some CSU campuses with a real "institutional feel" to them)?

Here is my list of favorite california campuses. These are the only ones ive been to.

UCLA
USC
CAL
UCSD

Universty of Washington
Stanford
University of San Diego
UCLA

I love Stanford and UCLA.

I have to mention Pepperdine. What a beautiful campus.

Do you people have any pictures for us that have never seen a college campus in California?
:cheers1:

UCLA
http://www.uofdreams.com/destinations/UCLA/UCLA---campus-aerial.jpg
http://www.plannedgiving.ucla.edu/images/UCLA/campus_4.jpg
http://www.laco.org/images/RoyceDay.jpg
Pepperdine
http://law.pepperdine.edu/images/home.jpg

Cal. Poly and UC Berkeley (http://www.berkeley.edu/webcams/gallery.html) have these incredible views!! i mean they are just :eek2:

I cant believe i forgot pepperdiine. that is the best campus on earth. what a location.

Berkeley

If you lived here, you might feel differently about things, LAuniverse. There's not only gown here, but also town. Both are interdependent and forced to coexist on a few square miles.

What's wrong with town? That dynamic is precisely what I like about Bezerkeley. But isn't this about campuses anyway?

Haha, you obviously enjoy the distance without the proximity, LAuniverse! ;)

There's nothing wrong with Town -- on the contrary! It's the gown old timers are suffering from: Gown is taking over! :runaway:

Oops I mean gown.

I lived in Berkeley for 5 years, Whose Homepage. Go Cal!

You *lived* here or you went to Cal, LA? :)

Believe me, there's a difference.

I *lived* here without connection to Cal, except briefly in 1971-72, when I worked @ their Institute of Library Research.

Went to Cal, lived off campus for 4 yrs. Lived near Sac and Cedar. Still not "town" enough? ;)

Ah. So you lived here AND went to Cal! :)

May I ask whether you had a car? ;)

Speaking of nice campuses, I rather like Caltech.

UC-Santa Barbara

UC Davis. It's beautiful!

Four gorgeous university campuses. I wish I attended one of these four, instead of Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa in frigid Eastern Ontario! I would say UCLA is the nicest.

UCLA
Stanford
UC Berkeley
USC

UCLA has been immortalized in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as UC Sunnydale. Nice...

But, I would have to put my vote in for Berkeley as the best looking of California's major campuses. You cannot separate the town from the gown. (and gown owes a lot to the town anyway) For this, the most pleasant campus experience is in Berkeley.

But of course, I would have to throw some support in for Santa Cruz as well. Ansel Adams once said that UCSC has one of the most beautiful campuses in the United States. I would have to agree but I think this is only fleeting as the UC system contemplates adding 6000 more students to the UCSC campus. How much more strain can a beautiful place take? How much more strain can the town take?

UCSD is my favorite. Not cause its in my own hometown, but its becasue its right by the ocean and there library is awsome. It looks like a pyramid with legs. I took a tour there and basically found that its a virtual city. With streets and little school companies and stores. Its also very beautiful with the eucolyptous forests inbetween the buildings. Its a place I hope to go one day...