Local News America's Most Scenic Institutions of Higher Learning September 1, 2011 / 9:46 AM EDT / CBS News Credit: University of California, Santa Cruz Rice University, Houston, Texas Credit: Rice University University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California Credit: University of California, San Diego Occidental College, Los Angeles, California Credit: Occidental College Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Credit: Indiana University Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Credit: Vanderbilt University Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida Credit: Flagler College United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado Credit: United States Air Force Academy Scripps College, Claremont, California Credit: Scripps College Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Credit: Duke University Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Credit: Wellesley College Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Credit: Stanford University Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Credit: Trinity College Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio Credit: Kenyon College Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Credit: Yale University University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Credit: University of Virginia Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Credit: Princeton University Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Credit: Harvard University University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Credit: University of Chicago Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Credit: Bryn Mawr College