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UC Santa Cruz made an international list of top 10 Most Beautiful Colleges that includes Oxford, Stanford, Princeton and the University of Bologna in the recent edition of Forbes.
A powerful landscape can play a significant role in establishing a campus’ character, says Aaron Schwarz, a principal at Perkins Eastman, a global architecture and urban design firm. The University of California at Santa Cruz, perched over the Pacific, is blessed with some good natural setting “genes,” he says.
Natalie Shivers, said the university blends buildings and the needs of pedestrians and drivers into the landscape. The magazine added: “It’s no wonder students like to study outdoors and that the campus has created 100 points of wireless access throughout the grounds.”
