Beautiful colleges of India --converted
                     
PREFACE
College life is like a dream, and it gets all summed up within a span of four to  
five years. The most colorful and cheerful is the college campus life; if you are 
 a resident student then there could be nothing more fun. India not only has  
some of the top schools but also houses some of the world’s most beautiful  
colleges. Every campus has its own beauty and not only the visual  
appearance, but its beauty also lies with the memories that you design here  
as a student. College life is a dream of every school-going student. Everyone  
has their visuals about college life with the unlimited package of laughter and 
 gang. Everyone is young and full of enthusiasm to take the challenges and fly 
 over the cloud of rainbows. There’s no denying the fact that our college is  
very dear to each one of us and while we know that education and faculty  
play an important role in deciding the ranking of colleges and universities  
nationwide, even the college architecture or location act as catalysts in the  
same! So, on that note, we thought of curating a list compiling the most  
beautiful colleges in India, which you can check on further pages.
Forest Research Institute, Dehradun: The campus is like  
living in Pablo Picasso’s artistic world. The campus is in the state of  
Uttarakhand in the Doon Valley with a perfectly picturesque backdrop  
painted with the Shivalik ranges of the Himalayas. CG Blomfield was the  
main brainchild behind the impeccable colonial-style Greco-Roman  
architecture of the building, which is deemed the oldest of its kind  in 
India. The filmmakers of “Student of Year” (2012) got stuck into the  
beauty of the campus and shot several scenes for the film. You cannot  
resist yourself to capture the campus into your camera devices.
St. Xavier’s College Mumbai: St. Xavier’s College is an  
architectural marvel which was founded in the year 1869. Identified  
as a heritage structure by the Mumbai Heritage Conservation  
Committee, the campus stands out for its Indo-Gothic architecture,  
the in-house museum that preserves rare, old books, the famous  
leisure space named “The Woods” — housing an expansive tree  
plantation — and an auditorium with two secret underground  
passages. Sprawling over 1.18 hectares, the institute is renowned for  
its green initiatives and sustainable efforts to ensure efficient water  
conservation and waste management.
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee: The  
marvelous white architecture surrounded by the lush green campus  
area delivers you such a royal grant. The campus feels like a giant royal 
 residence from the British era where you can imagine yourself as the  
prince or the princess living a royal life. This heritage architecture is  
built in the town located in the foothills of the Himalayas and The  
James Thomason building is an administrative building of the  campus 
that is shaped in a quadrangle, built in renaissance style, and  
overlooks the Himalayan snow-clad peaks. the aesthetically  pleasing, 
141.6-hectare (approx.) campus sports modern architecture  and 
heritage buildings along with idyllic walking trails. It was built in  the 
year 1847, Established as The Roorkee College during the British  
Empire.
King George’s Medical University, Lucknow: The  
architecture of the college is a result of absolute brilliance. What  
started as a proposition by Maharaja of Vijaynagaram led to the laying 
 of the foundation stone by then Prince of Wales, King George V, in  
1906 was built and completed in the year 1911 and became a fully  
functional medical school campus in Lucknow. The design and  
architecture are done by Sir Swinton Jacob in an Indo-Saracen style or  
the Mughal-Gothic Style. The main campus building has Islamic  
architecture blended with Neo-European architecture. If you are into  
art, enlist this campus into your to-do list, visit the campus at least  
once in your lifetime.