Ranking: Ivy League College Campuses

Ranking each Ivy League college campus by factors like architecture, food, nearby attractions, and more. No academics, just the overall feeling of each place. Subscribe for more place-based content!

Colleges in this video (alphabetically): Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University
Geographic areas include New England (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut), Mid-Atlantic (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York)

[deckerjackson]

I think you all missed the point with Dartmouth. The location of campus is beautiful, and allows students to go rock climbing, hike the Appalachian trail, or swim in the river on any day of the week. The restaurants in town are delicious. There are cozy little diners, cultural food from Nepal and Thailand, and steakhouses too. Although the winters are cold, Dartmouth is the only school in the nation with its own skiway! Buses can take students there whenever they want. Also, the annual school wide snowball fight, and winter carnival are ways that we celebrate the snow and have fun with it! Not to mention you get to see some of the most stunning changing leaves in the world. Although I agree that Princeton has buildings that are more architecturally marvelous, baker library and Dartmouth hall are both beautiful, and the situation of the school within a small New England college town allows for a stronger base in tradition and community.

[daisy-yzrw]

campus wise Cornell is ranked no1… so pretty so big so much nature so much sceneries!

[jorelgarcia]

Thank you Yale university you have been generous in giving free class lectures in YouTube unlike any other universities in the world!

[Timidor]

The great appeal of a place like Cornell is you have a contained college experience in a "gorges" setting & quirky town. We have our whole drinking age life to live in cities

[IvaneL]

I feel like Princeton and Yale arquitecture are very similar ( both beautiful) Also NYC isn’t an hour away, more like 1.5 driving without traffic or 2 hrs if you take the train bc of all the many stops. Boston is probably 2 hrs away by car depending on traffic as well.

[jakemoseley]

I went to Yale. The architecture is to die for. But Princeton is in a much better setting. The town is cutesy cute. New Haven is not. I vote Princeton.

[caidanpilarski]

Yeah uh why is Cornell at the bottom of the list? Ithaca is a quaint college town with some of the most and best restaurants of any town in the USA? Beautiful fingerlake region surrounding and within the campus? Some newer and older architecture to appeal to everyone? Direct bus rides on university buses to NYC? The standards used to rank were a bit off as well. A lot of it is subjective

[Rbsa]

Ithaca is ranked one of the best college towns in the country, not sure how we're second to last

[ArtemisFowl-eqjs]

This helped, as I wanted to go to Yale, but this is just confirming it! Thanks

[Adventuregirl]

I dated a guy that went to Yale. It is a nice campus and I enjoyed him showing me different places.

[vr]

All Ivy League schools are great in terms of campus and academic!!!👍👍👍
They are the best!❤️❤️❤️

[Tee-Ess]

I went to Harvard. Putting my bias really like the Princeton campus and town. You put a little too much emphasis on having a big city nearby. Students are poor and time constrained and tend to stay closer to campus. I went into Boston maybe a dozen times tops. And you think New Haven is a great town? Better than Cambridge? Really?

[richardleonori]

When Ezra Cornell said that he would found an institution "where any 'man' could find instruction in any study, his response to how he would control demand, he said, "Wait until you see where I'm going to put it."

[JackKubinec]

Shocked and appalled Cornell is #7. You’re ranking CAMPUSES not proximity to cities. My day is ruined.

[allentumminello]

Dartmouth is about family & education. Not McDonald’s & shopping

[BillTunell]

Just admit that your major criterion is "closest to places we'd like to be other than a college campus."

[georgepolasky]

Nice video. Well done. Interesting. In terms of sports, I’m a Princeton fan. Otherwise, Dartmouth.

[sktub]

Shouldn't safety be a part of this formula? Urban campuses Yale, Penn, Columbia and Harvard definitely have a different level of student and campus safety than schools like Cornell, Princeton and Dartmouth.

[TyraCruz]

Did they say that Harvard is in Boston?

[SeanSafford]

Being 2 hours from a Chipotle is a feature not a bug.