My son has been accepted at a lot of schools but has narrowed it down to Clemson or FSU. Due to scholarships at both the cost is almost identical. He wants to major in engineering and Clemson has a better ranking for that but FSU is ranked better overall and has been making major improvements in their engineering program in the last couple of years.
Anyone with experience with either program or school. He needs to decide soon because he is driving me crazy. Any links to articles that might help him decide.
@sclakemom Has he visited each campus? Which does he like better? Did he get to go to admitted student days at both? Based on your name, I’m assuming he’s in state for Clemson? Does he want to go OOS? The biggest difference is going to be size; if you’ve been on Clemson’s campus you know it’s suburban. You either love it or you don’t. Tallahassee is a much larger town, and FSU has 32,000 undergrads vs. 20,000 at Clemson. D20’s decision came down to Clemson and one other engineering schooI. I can tell you why D20 chose Clemson: small engineering classes, great academic support, smaller, friendly campus (she didn’t want to be in a city), top 10 happiest students (this was important to her), #1 career office and 79% of engineering students do co-ops (these were very important to her), general engineering for the first year w/no secondary application for major (she liked the idea of having a year to explore all engineering majors and yet not get locked out due to caps sophomore year). He has two great options. Good luck!
Yes, he has been to both campuses and likes them both. Does not like that FSU’s engineering school is actually about 3 miles off campus and not well regarded; but that is changing because FSU is now in control and not FAMU. He is torn because his dad is pushing FSU, bigger school, growing area, better overall rankings. He thinks he would have better opportunities and FSU is actually cheaper even though they are out of state because of offered scholarships.
Clemson is only 2 hours from home, in state, palmetto fellows, and he will know al ot of people there. Both good schools. Glad to hear your daughter likes it and that classes are small. My daughter went there and some of her classes (Chemistry / Bio) were huge.