Top 10 Most Beautiful College Campuses

Although educational track record, location, and quality and value of curriculum are among the most important factors to consider when choosing a university, a visually pleasing campus can play a part in influencing your decision. After all, you’ll spend years of your daily life on and around school grounds, so it’s only natural to prefer picturesque surroundings.

Read on for details of the top 10 most beautiful college campuses in America, and find out what contributes to their aesthetic appeal.

1. Kenyon College This campus in Gambier, Ohio is celebrated for its sweeping green spaces, tall trees, and classic Gothic buildings. Especially preferred by arts and language students, it has been selected as one of the most beautiful schools in the world by a global panel of architects and designers interviewed by Forbes magazine.

2. Princeton University Another favorite of the global architect panel, Princeton has been praised for its old-world architecture. The university is also known for its man-made lake and elegant walkways.

3. Rhodes College With traditional Gothic stone construction and 100 acres of woods, this Southeastern college boasts a lush green campus in the center of Memphis’ urban sprawl. Thirteen of the university’s buildings are listed on The National Register of Historic Places.

4. Scripps College Most likely to be described as “lovely,” this campus is distinguished by its Mediterranean Mission Revival architecture, southern flavor, and stunning liquid amber trees, tulips, and orange trees, all set against the scenic foothills of Southern California.

5. Loyola Marymount University Loyola is famous for its clean, elegant space. Housed at the crest of a bluff overlooking Los Angeles, this 150-acre campus is a modern marvel.

6. Pepperdine University With beautiful rolling hills, an ocean view from every dorm, and the understated flair of classic Californian construction, this Malibu campus is one of the most beautiful schools you’ll find in the Southern U.S.–or anywhere else, for that matter.

7. Stanford University Spanish Colonial style architecture covers this expansive campus, with over 8,000 acres of Californian foothills, walking trails, and charming residences ensconced between scenic San Jose and romantic San Francisco.

8. University of the South (Sewanee) Designed to appeal to lovers of the great outdoors, the Sewanee campus has made a commitment to sustainability that seamlessly blends nature with its Gothic architecture.

9. Yale University The Ivy League schools really know how to achieve flawless presentation, and Yale is a consummate example. One of the world’s most beautiful college campuses, it is renowned for its elaborate and dramatic Gothic structures.

10. Flagler College This St. Augustine, Florida school prides itself on its newly restored historic buildings, as well as its newer structures that mirror the old styles. The entire campus is within sight of nearby beaches and other attractions.

With so much visual inspiration, it’s no wonder that students flock to these beautiful college campuses from all over the United States. If you’re ready to get a top-notch education against a stunning backdrop, these handsome campuses are well worth a closer look.

Applications, Peking University Campus Network Security Solutions

Peking University campus is the largest campus networks, since 1989 to participate in “demonstration in Zhongguancun Area Networks” at the beginning, has completed 220 school buildings, office buildings, dormitories, faculty quarters of the fiber optic interconnection to provide information on nearly 60,000 cable point. The face of complex and diverse network environments and professional information service needs, Beijing university campus network security gateway used HillstoneSA series, the overall network performance while ensuring the premise, to a high throughput, high concurrency, high-create a new connection, high reliability of results.

Business needs Peking University campus network computer currently has more than 47,000 units, the daily also line nearly 2.5 million computers in general to provide text and image as the main form of information services at the same time, Beijing University campus there are a wealth of audio online video streaming media resource, and a large number of professional information services.

Peking University’s commitment to a very large server access to traffic, while a variety of attack traffic for the server running an enormous challenge.

Server faces enormous pressure to network attacks, running out of device performance, an urgent need to deploy a powerful attack against the security gateway for protection.

Solutions Peking University campus network services including the provision of multiple access methods, users are free to use wired, wireless, dial-up and other means at any time, any place connected to the campus network, campus network-based directory service user management system to achieve a unified campus network user authentication, unified management and unified billing.

For school teachers and students as well as Internet users with a variety of information resources server placed in the campus of Peking University’s professional server room, this room is superior hardware environment, all servers can run the quality of the physical environment.

However, the increasing spread of viruses and network attacks today, high-quality physical environment is not enough to run, safe and efficient operation of the network environment has also become an information-building must be taken into account.

Hillstone to Peking University to provide high quality security protection solution. HillstoneSA products using innovative 64-bit multi-core processors and high-speed switching bus technology, a powerful anti attack to avoid the traditional ASIC and NP session security system to create capacity and shortcomings of weak flow control for application layer VPN and content security feature provides powerful processing capabilities to protect. The solution now often used for education, banking, business, telecommunications, government and other industries and sectors.

Hillstone security at Peking University’s network topology is as follows:

HillstoneSA-5040 product-specific session control with ability to precisely control each IP address to access the server-initiated session session number, and access speed, use of multi-core processor architecture and a new generation of StoneOS secure operating system, can In the DoS / DDoS attacks before they occur will attack a limited range of control, completely solve the ARP attacks, the greatest degree of protection of all servers.

HillstoneSA-5040 product can handle more than 100,000 per second of TCP new session request, 5-10 times more than similar products, can ensure adequate security during the same time strengthening the server will not reduce the accessibility, not lower server on the user’s service quality. Combined with Syn-proxy functionality, all access to the server will be filtered from the Hillstone device and then sent to the server security, maximum protection of the server is down or running out of resources will not.

Hillstone security gateway with a strong anti-attack, while maintaining a new session per 5000http the background flow rate can withstand 800,000 attacks per second flow, the ability to screen a large number of attacks outside of the server group for the server room to provide a strong security fortress.

Customer benefits

By HillstoneSA series security gateway products, the Beijing University campus network can fully play the original equipment capacity, integration of system resources, the protection of the network security context, to improve system performance, better for the majority of student services. Head of Peking University campus, said: “Hillstone security gateway has a very strong anti-handling capacity, and DoS / DDoS attack, has provided us with more effective security solution, easy management, control, precision, our server after more secure. “