<p>Which is better for a Maryland resident, who is interested in double majoring in finance and math-or-compsci,
Baruch or UMD?</p>
<p>And if the answer was UMD, would it make a difference if you had Maccaulay honors at Baruch?</p>
<p>Bumpity bump.</p>
<p>Bumpity bump.</p>
<p>Baruch is CUNY, which is not the same as NYU. The only thing they truly have in common is that as an OOS student you will be paying a lot for the education.</p>
<p>Let’s take it from a factual standpoint.</p>
<p>UMDCP Smith is ranked not only nationally, but internationally. CUNY is not.
UMDCP is in the top 20 public universities (Smith ranks higher), again CUNY is not. </p>
<p>Why would you pay OOS if you can go IS to a higher ranking university? If CUNY is using this statement
than the big hint is “value”. Nothing wrong with that, but again as an OOS you are going to pay more to go to a value ranked public school, and not the academic ranked school.</p>
<p>Honestly, if you were an NY resident, I would probably have a different take on it, because UMDCP is now @37K a yr, by the time you’d graduate it will probably be in the low 40’s, and that is a lot of money to pay for OOS.</p>
<p>Additionally, college is a whole aspect thing. You will not live, breathe and eat academics 24/7. A lot of finding your match is directly related to the school itself. College life is also from a social standpoint, such as football games, fraternities, and sororities and the town that the school resides in.</p>
<p>Our DD would have hated every second at UMDCP, because she wanted a small town feel, thus VTech is a better fit for her. Our DS would have rather placed needles in his eyes than go there, because he likes the ability to go into DC and live the city feeling. Both are great schools, both have great athletic teams (just different FB for Tech, BB for UMDCP), but they are night and day when it comes to college life. At VTech, the majority of students live on campus their entire college career, at UMDCP, by JR yr the majority of students are off campus. At Tech, they are rabid when it comes to school pride, at UMDCP they are more laid back. At UMDCP the campus is huge and spread out, at Tech is much smaller, but still has the college feeling. At Tech, you are not walking into town, at UMDCP you cross the street to get to new leonardtown and you are in the town.</p>
<p>You need to visit CUNY, because the feel of the college will probably be more like UMBC or American than UMDCP.</p>
<p>Pima: Last I knew, Tech only guarantees housing for freshmen. They have 30,000+ full time students and about 9000 dorm rooms. A close friend whose daughter is a junior told me a while ago that everyone moves off campus after freshman year. (Just FYI, so you don’t get surprised at the end of the year).</p>