<p>I really need to find a cheaper college [along the lines of $tuition 25,000 and under] with a good english department. Please reply and give me some ideas. Location is no problem.</p>
<p>Wells; very good school and cheap.</p>
<p>What state are you in? Your flagship public university might have a great English program (e.g. Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, W&M, UVa, etc.).</p>
<p>Berkeley...</p>
<p>Some schools are very good with aid. Sometimes, "demonstrated need" goes up a lot higher than other schools. It seems like you're looking for places with good merit aid and good English programs, or good financial aid and good English programs, or both. It would probably help if you say what state you're from, and your yearly income, as callibrated by however colleges do it (what your parents make combined in a year might be it, for instance.) Your stats could give us an idea of where you could get in, or get significant aid. Also, how far, distance wise, are you willing to go for college?</p>
<p>I am from Missouri, and my parents make probably 21,000 to 24,000. But my dad is on disability so ... I am willing to go anywhere in the continental U.S.</p>
<p>Elcarroll, givne your family income, you will probably receive quite a bit of need-based assistance. What are your credntials like? Unweighed GPA, class rank, SAT/SAT II, ACT? ECs? AP classes? AP Exam results? Etc...</p>
<p>I've heard promising things about UCLA'S English department (then again, cheap only if you're a CA resident).</p>
<p>U Missouri Columbia, Washington U St Louis, U Chicago, Grinnell, U of Iowa, Kenyon,Vanderbilt, Centre, Knox, Oberlin, Rhodes, U of the South, Indiana U Bloomington, U Illinois U-C</p>
<p>I have a friend who really likes the english department at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida... I beleive the tuition is only like $8000 a year. Its a small private school, beautiful campus.</p>
<p>It will be hard to top the sticker price of the U of Missouri or Truman State, both of which have excellent English departments. Make sure both are on your list as financial safeties.</p>
<p>I agree with Alexandre. Your family will probably be eligible for significant financial aid. Before you even start looking at colleges, I'd suggest you learn all you can about the steps required to apply for financial aid and the various forms it can take. A good site: <a href="http://www.finaid.org%5B/url%5D">www.finaid.org</a></p>
<p>However, it's important to keep tucked in the back of your mind that if you need large amounts of financial aid it might still be a very good idea to keep sticker price in mind. The reason? Most colleges will give you a financial aid package that includes grants, loans and work study.
The grants are "free" money - you don't have to earn them or pay them back. The loans and work study you do have pay back or earn as you go. So, a lower priced school to begin with can sometimes work to your advantage in terms of coming out of school with less loans hanging over your head. There are a few very elite schools, such as Princeton, that limit the amount of loans in financial aid packages, but they are highly selective so they should not be counted on.</p>
<p>What are your grades and test scores like? If they are good, that will give you more options because you will not only be eligible for financial aid at some schools, but also for merit scholarships which can in some cases be equal to full tuition.</p>
<p>In terms of sticker price, schools in the Northeast are in general more expensive than schools elsewhere in the country. They also, again I'm speaking in generalities, are less hungry for students and so it can be harder to get merit scholarships. If you are looking for the "Best values" in terms of sticker price, focus on schools in the Midwest and the South. And, keep in mind that public universities generally have less grant money available for out of state students (and some of them, like UMich and the University of California schools cost as much for out of state students as many private schools).</p>
<p>Finally, don't forget that you will have travel expenses to and from school. Financial aid and merit scholarships do not include those, so you must count on paying them out of pocket. You might want to keep this in mind and make sure that you have at least a few schools on your final list that you can get to by car or via inexpensive means.</p>
<p>With all that said, here are some schools that have very good English departments and either low sticker prices to begin with, or excellent opportunities for merit scholarships, or both. I have also included a few that don't necessarily fall in either category but which tend to be very generous with how they structure their financial aid packages. Much will depend on whether you want a large or small school, the setting you prefer, and a host of other factors, but this list will give you a starting point. Visit the websites of a few of these schools, read their admissions pages, look over and compare their English departments, and you'll start to narrow things down. Since I don't know your grades/test scores, some of these schools may be reaches for you, some may be ultra-safeties. This is list is also not meant to be exhaustive - there are many excellent English programs out there, I have just tried to focus in on ones that might meet your financial needs best.</p>
<p>Again, don't overlook the U of Missouri-Columbia and Truman State. One or the other should probably be on your list as a financial safety. Feel free to send me a personal message if you have questions.</p>
<p>Small schools:
Millsaps College (Miss.)
Rhodes College (TN)
Beloit College (Wisc.)
Grinnell College (Iowa)
Dickinson College (PA)
Kenyon College (Oh)
Wittenberg (Ohio)
DePauw (Indiana)
Hendrix (Arkansas)
Trinity U (Texas)
Centre College (Kentucky)
Southwestern U (Texas)
Denison (Ohio)
Lawrence U (Wisc.)
Knox College (IL)
Augustana (IL)
William Jewel (MO)</p>
<p>Mid-sized schools
Rice University (TX)
Washington U in St. Louis
Tufts (MA)
Yale-Harvard-Princeton-Stanford - expensive and very selective but good financial aid
University of Denver
University of Mississippi
Tulane
Ball State U (Ohio)
Marquette (Wisc)
Truman State</p>
<p>Large
Indiana U
Ohio State U
U of Missouri
U of Georgia
U of South Carolina
Duke (NC)
Wake Forest (NC)
University of Arkansas
University of Wisconsin
University of Pennsylvania
Cornell
Columbia
Emory
Syracuse University
University of Rochester (NY)</p>
<p>How is UT @ Austin?</p>
<p>I guess I am not including a lot of information for you guys so let me feel you in. I go to a small Christian School in Missouri. I don't know if I am losing chances of getting into a good college by not being able to talk to a guidance counselor. But anywho... I know that I will be able to get a lot of aid, cause I have read a lot of books about colleges. Truman State was on my list but I killed it. I will definitely put it back on my list cause of that tidbit of info. I am sophomore this year but they say to start your search early. I have not took the act yet but I have a GPA of about 3.6 on a 4.0. Some of the colleges that I have gotten info on is Winona, Western Carolina, Rocky Mountain, Westminster (MO), Culver-Stockton. Do you think I should put Lawrence back on my list? I crossed it off cause it was really expensive, but they offered really great aid. Everything about it was appealing to me except the price. SO I don't know. Thanks for all you help. Please keep giving me advice.</p>
<p>The University of Tulsa has an excellent English department (with a large collection of James Joyce's original writings as an example); has the second lowest tuition for private universities in the top 100 national universities (from U.S. News); awards significant merit dollars; and has only 2800 undergraduates (and 1300 in its grad/law schools).</p>
<p>The University of Tulsa has an excellent English department (with a large collection of James Joyce's original writings as an example); has the second lowest tuition for private universities in the top 100 national universities (from U.S. News); awards significant merit dollars; and has only 2800 undergraduates (and 1300 in its grad/law schools).</p>
<p>Beyond me saying that the University of Tulsa has an excellent English department, take a look at an excerpt from their website:</p>
<p>"The College of Arts and Sciences is home to four major journals including the James Joyce Quarterly, (now in its 40th year of publication) Nimrod: International Journal of Poetry and Prose, Russian Studies in History, and Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature, which celebrates 20 consecutive years of publication this year with two special issues.</p>
<p>The James Joyce Quarterly, The University of Tulsa and Brown University co-hosted the Modernist Journals Project, an online archive that will add both past issues of the James Joyce Quarterly as well as various modernist texts from McFarlin Librarys Special Collections to its website of early twentieth-century periodicals. Sean Latham, editor of the JJQ, has succeeded in bringing the 2003 North American James Joyce Conference to the campus of the University of Tulsa.</p>
<p>Each year, The J. Donald Feagin Distinguished Visiting Artist program helps TU create a dialogue between high-profile visiting artists, TU students and Tulsas public by bringing noted writers and artists to TU, including Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paula Vogel, actor and film director Tim Blake Nelson, acclaimed writer Russell Banks, novelist and playwright David Kranes and writer Rilla Askew.</p>
<p>The Ruth Mayo Distinguished Visiting Artist Program allows internationally recognized artists to provide classroom and individual instruction to undergraduate and graduate art students."</p>
<p>TU's sticker price is under $19,000 for tuition in 2005-06 and it's a stone's throw from Missouri.</p>
<p>I really am sorry because I have kinda mislead you. When I said location is no problem (which is true) There are some states that I don't want ot go to. No offense to people who live there. ;)</p>
<p>I don't really want any states like Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska. States that have a lot of plains. I don't really like the south either. I would have to say I am a cold weather lover. So really anything far north or west is great. Missouri, I don't have a problem with but I also don't want a really large school. Like 8,000 and under undergrads. Is it bad to be so picky? I am really trying to narrow my choices early so I'll know what schools to visit, especially the really far states. It would be hard to get there. ANywho, </p>
<p>Thanks for everything and keep replying.
Whatever info you need to help me out more just ask. I'll help you anyway I can.</p>
<p>Thanks again,
Liz</p>
<p>I don't know how good Mizzou's English department is, but the Journalism is top 3.</p>
<p>*I am from Missouri, and my parents make probably 21,000 to 24,000. But my dad is on disability so … I am willing to go anywhere in the continental U.S. </p>
<p>I really need to find a cheaper college [along the lines of $tuition 25,000 and under] with a good english department. Please reply and give me some ideas. Location is no problem.*</p>
<p>I’m confused. If your parents only earn about $20k+ per year, how can you afford a college that has tuition about $20k? Besides, there isn’t just tuition to pay for, there is also room, board and books which cost another $10k-12k per year.</p>
<p>Even if you’re including tuition, room, board, and books in your $20k budget, I still don’t know where you’d get the $20k from.</p>
<p>Also, most out of state schools are going to cost at least $30k+ per year. There are a few that might cost about $25k per year. And, since you’ve eliminated the “Plains states” and the South, you’ve pretty much have eliminated the less expensive schools.</p>
<p>Your best bet is to stay in Missouri and to to a state school unless you have really high stats that would either get you into a full need school or get you a scholarship.</p>
<p>You would qualify for about $5500 in a Pell Grant, but not much more in “free money” unless your stats are high enough for schools that give great aid. If that is so, then the tuition limit that you’ve stated is meaningless.</p>
<p>So, where would you get the $20k per year from since you say that is your budget?</p>
<p>hey im a missourian too in the same boat and also looking for a good cheap school with a good english department haha what a coincedance thanks for starting this thread</p>