As someone who graduated from the U of MN:
The west bank is disgusting, the east bank is really nice except for a couple of the medical buildings i.e. Moos Tower, and the St. Paul campus is nice if you can get acclimated to the smell of the farm animals.
An urban campus takes some time to get used to, but I agree with fightingsioux4life that it is much better than SCSU and NDSU. I'd even add UMD as a campus it beats and I also went to school there for a couple of years.