“The land is owned by the school, but leased to each house for a $1 per year. lol Now, that’s some rent control!”
But the landlord gets a $2-5M improvement placed on the empty lot.
You are probably right. I am used to Georgia Tech, where the percentage is much higher (52%), but that’s probably because rents off campus can be quite high. In college towns, the off campus rents are probably much more attractive.
UAH and Wichita State will be tough to beat on price.
I haven’t been to Wichita State, but I have to UAH.
I looked at some street and satellite views late, and was surprised. Where I’d seen a dorm a “mall” and a student center had been streets and some ranch housing 4-5 years ago.
I don’t think its ever going to be confused with Bates or whatever, but its changing.
UAH and Wichita have aero because local employers need aero engineers. That isn’t the norm. Since OP is in eastern TN Huntsville is easy to visit. Should do so and makeup your own mind about the campus.
Illinois Institute of Technology has aero. They can be very generous with merit for kids with good stats. However, it is a very urban school.
@twoinanddone I guess my big turn-off for UT Knoxville vs. University of Alabama is the fact that my son’s NMF scholarship at UA covers nearly all the cost the first year and all except room and board yrs 2-4 AND it AUTOMATICALLY renews!
For UT Knoxville, the costs of tuition alone were barely covered by piecing together several small scholarships (Hope + Volunteer + others) - plus the hassle of having to fill out the FAFSA every year to get them renewed was a turn off.
However - if one is willing to do the required due diligence for UTK - it is probably fine. I just liked the lack of the hassle factor for UA, and they have a much better deal for NMF. Sadly, I’d say the state of Tennessee hemorrhages NMF students to schools like UA, Ole Miss and UK which all have great NMF packages - UTK does not.
OP is in a different situation than @nerdyparent but for others looking at this thread that are NMF they can understand quickly how some schools like UA have heavy NMS because they are generous to them.
There are many students in TN, GA, and FL that qualify for their hope scholarship (or whatever their particular state calls it) to have them look closely at their state schools. Knowing the merit opportunities elsewhere can be a help in making the decision right for the student and the pocketbook.
UAH attracts a lot of local high stat kids who need to commute from home, or want to stay really close to home even with being in a dorm or apt - UAH have advertised their 2015-2016 merit tuition scholarships in local paper/news, and have it pretty prominent and easy to find on their web site www.uah.edu starting with 35% tuition for at least a 3.0 GPA and ACT 25 - 27, or SAT (CR + M) at 1130 -1240. Of course OOS is paying a higher tuition rate unless they reach the 100% merit at at least 3.5 GPA and ACT 30, or SAT 1330.
I know one local family where first DD took full community college scholarship; second DD qualified for 67% four year scholarship at UAH which was a better deal for DD2.
Excuse my ignorance, but wouldn’t the pep band be similar to marching band? If the OP visits UAH he might also set up an audition (info in link below).
^^Totally different. Pep bands play at a few sporting events, sometimes at a school fund raising event. It’s fun and doesn’t take a huge amount of time. A marching band at a school like Alabama requires hours of practice, usually starting a few weeks before school starts, several hours every week for practice, every football home game and sometimes travel to parades and bowl games.
I think there are advantages and disadvantages to both, but they aren’t the same.
If doing a UAH campus visit, have an appt with Music Dept chair - he is an awesome guy. Very student oriented and has a lot of non-music majors involved with some music that doesn’t interfere with students’ academics. We have known him for years - he also works with EC youth orchestra which is supported by Huntsville Symphony.
+1 for Auburn. Fantastic engineering, also no grade inflation :(, best marching band in the South (IMHO) - son is an Aerospace Engineering student and has been in the marching band last 2 years - wants to sit in the student section this year (Mom’s sad about that), moved off campus this semester - lots of affordable apartments and Tiger Transit hits just about all of them. It’s a biking friendly campus with lots of personality and friendly coeds. If you are really looking at the money only, Alabama will beat Auburn every time - they seem to be buying brains, but there is something about Auburn that still brings in the brightest. In my son’s Camp War Eagle they asked how many students had given up HOPE to attend Auburn, he said about half his class stood up - lots of Georgia engineering students whose profile was over represented at GaTech are attending Auburn. War Eagle!
@BobWallace - rents are higher off campus at GT, but so is crime…I live in North Atlanta and see the crime there every week. I’d rather live on campus too.
Check out U of South Carolina. They have new aerospace center and made this announcement today about partnership with Boeing. http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2015/08_mcnair_center_boeing_partner_for_aerospace_research.php#.VcPt117bK00
At ACT of 29 there is tuition reduction and at ACT 30 start to see reduction to in-state tuition rate (look at money matters information - not cut and dried guarantees but what students at different levels received last year). Several parents of band students have mentioned gaining in-state tuition for playing in marching band even if not a music major. Might be worth looking into. D knew a couple of students that played in marching band and were engineering majors.
I may have mentioned this already, but schools like UA, Purdue, etc have a summer week program for rising HS juniors and seniors interested in exploring engineering. UA’s program is called SITE (go on www.ua.edu and on the search type in SITE). In the past they have offered three different weeks of SITE - get a really good view of engineering/cs and the school, what is expected etc. Good to be more sure of major and also look over campus/facilities. Good info. DD attended UA’s program going into HS senior year and that helped her determine which eng field she wanted. Now an enthusiastic rising college sophomore continuing in that field.
UA, UAH, AU, MS State - all schools to visit to see what son likes/doesn’t like. One does need to watch ‘finish in 4’ - neighbor kid, Presidential scholar at AU taking a 5th year to finish ME degree, so adding a music minor - but this whole 5th year is fully out of pocket. Nephew at TN Tech did 5th year because he wanted to do super well w/o almost max hours each semester - he was in state for TN, and graduated Magnum Cum Laud with CS degree. He did a Jan - Dec Co-op (great company and experience, and company paid for housing), and a summer internship, so he actually finished in 6 but was super marketable with a very strong starting salary.
If you have the NMF scholarship from UA, isn’t that for 5 years?
Yes. One year housing.
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If you have the NMF scholarship from UA, isn’t that for 5 years?
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Yes 5 years of tuition, plus
one year of housing
$3500 per year stipend
one time $2000 summer experience
iPad or some other tech choice (there are options now).
PLUS…if you’re an eng’g or CS major, you also get $2500 per year, so you’d get $6000 per year on top of the furee tuition.
I think Bama is the highest ranked school that offers that much.
a student can opt to use extra semester’s worth of tuition towards a summer abroad. This is a win/win, especially for OOS students. One semester of tuition is about $13k…so the student gets a check for $13k that he can use for summer abroad…which usually covers an entire program, housing, food, airfare, spending money, extra side trips abroad, etc. I don’t think any other school does this.
The Million Dollar Band is the best band in the South. And check out their newly designed practice field that mimics the field in Bryant-Denny Stadium.
Drone video: http://youtu.be/R4tn6LgYiCQ