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| gehzumteufel |
Anyone have any good reasons for going one way or the other? I am starting school in Jan at a jc just to get the Gen Ed out of the way and transfer credits, but I am torn on whether to look at going to a public or private uni.
Cost is not a serious difference as UCLA, Stanford, and USC are all at 36kish/yr. |
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| Sunsnail |
public community ftw!
3k/year |
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| djcami |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Anyone have any good reasons for going one way or the other? I am starting school in Jan at a jc just to get the Gen Ed out of the way and transfer credits, but I am torn on whether to look at going to a public or private uni.
Cost is not a serious difference as UCLA, Stanford, and USC are all at 36kish/yr. |
out of those three i'd most definetely suggest you go to Stanford if thats an option. i'd say Stanford has a better reputation academically alhtough i'm sure some people will disagree with me. |
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| Trance Nutter |
| Whoever has the reputation in the course you want to do. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sunsnail
public community ftw!
3k/year |
lol "jc" = community college. ;) :p
| quote: | Originally posted by djcami
out of those three i'd most definetely suggest you go to Stanford if thats an option. i'd say Stanford has a better reputation academically alhtough i'm sure some people will disagree with me. |
It all depends on the field, but in my case that would be 100% true. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance Nutter
Whoever has the reputation in the course you want to do. |
Well I am already aware of that, but I was just curious as if anyone knows anything that would sway me either way. USC, UCLA, Stanford, CalPoly San Louis Obispo, UC Berkely, SDSU, etc all have a very high reputation for MechEng majors. That is a mix of private and public in that list. They all have quite comprehensive programs too. Was looking at them all last night. |
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| Protege |
| If you can afford it, go private. If not, go public. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Protege
If you can afford it, go private. If not, go public. |
That is the thing, cost wise they are basically the same.
Stanford, if you consider all the fees (they also include a 12k housing figure in this fee) is 52k. UCLA, not including housing, is 38k. They are basically the same. So cost is kind of moot between them. |
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| Palladium |
| how about no uni at all |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Palladium
how about no uni at all |
This is not an option for an engineer. |
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| BoReD365247 |
If cost isn't an issue then I would say go to the best school out of the list. At least from what I've seen personally here in Texas that seems to be the biggest issue, for instance I paid 3.5K per semester for tutition alone at UT (public school) but at Rice per semester you're talking 15K/semester.
Also another thing is that if you have free rent at a school nearby, then go there because having bills is never fun (i.e., parents). |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by BoReD365247
If cost isn't an issue then I would say go to the best school out of the list. At least from what I've seen personally here in Texas that seems to be the biggest issue, for instance I paid 3.5K per semester for tutition alone at UT (public school) but at Rice per semester you're talking 15K/semester.
Also another thing is that if you have free rent at a school nearby, then go there because having bills is never fun (i.e., parents). |
Well I will have to finance this (ing practically taking out a damn mortgage for some areas of the US!) but being that the area I am considering specializing in (Nuclear MechEng) makes a boat load (really any MechEng specialty makes a boat load) I am not worried about that. |
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