Last spring, the student Web portal UNICUM and the architectural website BauNetz teamed up to create a contest called “Germany’s most beautiful university campus.” This August, they announced a winner: the University of Passau.

Judges particularly liked the Bavarian school’s architecture, location and a student lawn named Innwiese. Clinching the second place slot in the contest was the University of Magdeburg-Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt. Third was the private Business and Information Technology School in North-Rhine Westphalia. Students, experts and website visitors judged 21 German universities. Categories in which universities could earn points included beauty and architecture, soundness of infrastructure and building furnishings.

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