{"id":43958,"date":"2026-10-28T13:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=43958"},"modified":"2026-10-28T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:08:04","slug":"furman-named-among-worlds-most-beautiful-college-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-named-among-worlds-most-beautiful-college-campuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman named among world&#8217;s most beautiful college campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University has earned a spot among the world&#8217;s most beautiful college campuses, ranking No. 12 on <em>House Beautiful&#8217;s<\/em> list of 39 stunning campuses.<\/p>\n<p>The publication highlighted Furman&#8217;s iconic Florentine Bell Tower, surrounded by the university&#8217;s spring-fed lake and lush greenery. The recognition also celebrates the natural beauty of Furman&#8217;s 750-acre campus, which features an Asian garden and 13 miles of paved trails.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Post and Courier<\/em> recently featured Furman alongside the College of Charleston, the only two South Carolina schools to make the list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/charleston_sc\/colleges-greenville-charleston-sc-world-most-beautiful\/article_d98658c3-fa41-4bbe-bdb8-c9341d5416ae.html?shem=aimgspe,\">Read the full story in the Post and Courier.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University ranked No. 12 on House Beautiful\u2019s list of the world\u2019s most beautiful college campuses, earning recognition for its iconic Bell Tower and scenic 750-acre campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":43959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-the-post-and-courier"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43962,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43958\/revisions\/43962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}