<p>i'm looking in going to computer engineering, cause i love working with computers, so i am wondering if going straight to university for computer engineering would be better or if going to college first then transferring my courses to the university would be best?</p>
<p>I’m not sure about your differentiation between ‘university’ and ‘college’. Are you referring to 4-yr vs. 2-yr community college? Some 4-yrs are called colleges (eg. Dartmouth College) and others called universities (eg. University of Michigan), however they both result in a 4 yr undergraduate degree.</p>
<p>its a 2yr course i can take in community college then i can transfer to university and finish off with another 2 years</p>
<p>If your community college has a formal articulation agreement for this particular major, then it can be a good way to do this. The CC will almost certainly be much less expensive, which will save you a lot of money for those first two years, and you will almost certainly have much smaller classes in the introductory courses at the CC which will make it easier for you to get any help you might need from your professors. Talk with the admissions office at your CC about transferring into the university that you are interested in. The counselors will have lots of good ideas for you.</p>
<p>Yes, starting at community college can be a good way to save money on the first two years, or for other situations (e.g. part time attendance while working).</p>
<p>However, check the target universities to see that the community college’s courses will transfer to be equivalent to the freshman and sophomore level courses needed for your major (try putting “transfer credit” in the target university’s web site search). Math, physics, and English composition are pretty common and fairly standard, but some other subjects like computer science are less standardized; you may have to take courses at more than one community college to maximize coverage of the freshman and sophomore level courses to minimize the amount of post-transfer “catch up” you need to do.</p>
<p>What the best choice for you is depends on your situation and the schools involved.</p>