The world’s 20 most beautiful universities

Students in the UK certainly have their pick of beautiful universities. There are brutalist lecture halls, 900-year-old libraries, ultra-modern city-centre institutions and remote, quaint campuses.

Just take a look at the majestic buildings of Edinburgh, Cambridge and Oxford.

But what’s the choice like outside the UK? To guide students heading out on a year abroad, Immerse Education has analysed data from the world’s top 50 universities to determine which are the most beautiful.

These are the world’s 20 most beautiful universities

1. University of California (LA)
2. University of California (San Diego)
3. Columbia University
4. University of Washington
5. Harvard University
6. University of Toronto
7. University of Michigan
8. Cornell University
9. Duke University
10. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
11. Princeton University
12. Yale University
13. Stanford University
14. University of Texas Austin
15. University of Illinois at Urbana
16. Peking University
17. New York University
18. University of Sydney
19. University of Chicago
20. University of Melbourne