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The College of William & Mary , one of the oldest universities in the country, is located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia.
Duke University , the South's most prestigious university, is located in Durham, North Carolina. The Gothic-inspired Duke Chapel is the tallest building on campus and is the University's most notable landmark. Just south of the Chapel on Chapel Drive is the Undergraduate Admissions Office, where tours of the university are offered on a daily basis. Duke maintains for visitors that provides more detailed information. Duke's campus can be reached off exits from the 15-501 freeway.
Emory University is in the Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
Rice University located in Houston, is one of the most noted schools in Texas.
Texas A&M University located in College Station, is a large (45,000 student) land-grant University in the state Texas. Notable for its Corps of Cadets, a 2000 member strong uniformed student military contingent and sprawling campus, Texas A&M is best visited by car. This conservative school is obviously proud of its Texan heritage and the area has many fine Country-Western dance halls.
The University of Texas is located in Austin in the state of Texas. If Texas A&M in College Station is Sparta, UT and Austin are Athens. Diverse and liberally tolerant, the campus of the Univeristy of Texas in Austin sports spanish revival architecture. With more than 50,000 students, UT is both of one of the largest and most well regarded public university in the US. Austin, a large liberal metropolitan city, is an island of liberalism in Texas and is located along I-35.
The University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville, Virginia. One of the most prestigious public universities in the country, "UVa" was founded by Thomas Jefferson, author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and two-term U.S. President. Much of Jefferson's original design for the central Grounds (what would be called a "campus" at most other schools) survives, and UVa is the only university in the U.S. designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. He considered the University so important a legacy that he directed that his gravestone include his status as founder of the University, to the exclusion of his U.S. Presidency.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It was the first state-supported university in the U.S. to admit and graduate students, though not the first such school to be chartered (the University of Georgia has the latter distinction). The Duke and UNC campuses can easily be visited in a single trip, or even a single day, as they are only 8 miles/13 km apart.
Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, founded by shipping and railroad tycoon "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1873. Vanderbilt's campus is approximately 1.5 miles from downtown Nashville, and despite its urban surrounding, the campus itself has few internal roads, is a national arboretum and features over 300 different species of trees and shrubs. Vanderbilt was home to the fugitive and agrarian scholar movements of the 1920s and 1930s, and was a hotbed of civil rights activity in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, Vanderbilt's park-like 330 acre campus is cited as an example of romantic architecture, whereas its Peabody College is has a classical design patterned on the University of Virignia's central grounds. Vanderbilt's Memorial Gymnasium is also a unique setting among college basketball stadiums. Vanderbilt is located on West End Avenue, which maybe be accessed by I-40 or I-440.
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