Most students choose a college for its academics, its cost, the party scene or because it’s far away from home.

Travel & Leisure gives another idea for consideration: the campus itself.

The publication recently created a list of the 30 most beautiful colleges and universities in the nation. Two Georgia schools made the list: Berry College near Rome and the University of Georgia in Athens.

Travel & Leisure notes Berry’s 27,000 acres of fields, lakes, forests and mountains and its “beautiful English Gothic-inspired buildings like the Ford Dining Hall, Ford Auditorium and Mary Hall.” For UGA, Travel & Leisure highlighted the iconic iron arch, the chapel bell and the Founders Memorial Garden, which features more than 300 plant species.

Travel & Leisure is not the first campus to spotlight Berry for its beauty. In January, U.S. News & World Report put the school on its list of 25 beautiful college campuses. Three other Georgia were also included: Georgia Tech, Mercer University and Spelman College.

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