Business Insider Names The Most Beautiful And Iconic American College Quads

Rob Fox12 years ago

Ah, “the Quad.” Often times it is the true symbol of one’s university. Simply seeing it makes you feel home, even if the vast majority of your time in the quad was spent in half-conscious transit from one class to another, or drunkenly stumbling home and debating whether you should pee or vomit in a dark nook on the edge of the iconic space, while its majestic architecture towered over one of your lower moments.

The Quad is a revered space at any university, but some, naturally, are better than others. According to Business Insider, these are the 14 (which they then amended to 16) Most Beautiful and Iconic American College Quads:

Harvard University — Harvard Yard

University of Alabama — The Quad

Cornell University — Arts Quad

University of Virginia — The Lawn

University of Missouri — Francis Quadrangle

Yale University — Branford Courtyard

University of Washington — The Quad

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Killian Court

University of Pennsylvania — The Quad

University of Maryland — McKeldin Mall

Stanford University — Main Quad

University of Wisconsin–Madison — Bascom Hill

University of Michigan — The Diag

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — Main Quad

University of Texas at Austin — South Lawn

Southern Methodist University — Main Quad

Did your school’s steaming landfill of a quad not make the list? Feel free to complain about that in the comments.

[via Business Insider]