Hey Everyone.
So I got into both colleges but I don’t know which one I should go to.
I need your advises
thank you
Very, very different. What do you plan to study? Will costs be similar? What is important to you?
Quest is a small LAC on the block plan. One of my son’s mountaineering friends is up there studying environmental science. It is one of the best locations in the world if you like to climb and ski.
CSU is the traditional large state U experience. The mountains are there but not walking distance like Quest.
Magnetron summed it up nicely. Two radically different options and choosing between them involves considering a lot of different factors. We’d need a lot more detail to help you.
Well, I want to study computer science. Quest offered me a scholarship but I’ll have to pay 20000$(Canadian dollars)
which is the is the same amount I have to pay at CSU (26889$).
I am looking for a school where I’ll have the opportunity to practice what I’ll be studying (this can be through internships or temporary jobs). I am also interested in the medium sized campus( not extremely large).
Let me know if there is any other details I have to provide.
Have you contacted Quest with what you would like to study? It does not appear they offer much in the way of computer science or even a faculty member with expertise. CSU has an actual developed curriculum, and you would have peers also studying CS.
Quest has a non-traditional curriculum that emphasizes breadth at the expense of depth. So you won’t get a computer science degree, or the equivalent, from Quest. I looked at their catalog and counted only four CS courses (IND 3141, 3144, 3145, 3156). That’s only a small fraction – less than half-- of what a traditional CS major would require.
https://questu.ca/_downloads/_documents/REGISTRAR/2016/COURSE-CATALOG-2016-2017.pdf
Quest doesn’t have “majors”; their curriculum is designed to provide broad exposure to “the breadth of human knowledge”, including literature, classics, natural sciences, and social sciences. If that’s what you want, great. You would probably get a much broader general education than you would as a CS major at a traditional school. But the downside is that you won’t get much depth in any of these subjects, including computer science. Every Quest student graduates with the same general bachelor’s degree, they don’t offer degrees in specific fields like English or economics or computer science.
If you prefer a “medium-sized” campus, then Colorado State, with 33,000 students, doesn’t really qualify. But Quest, with only 700 students, isn’t really medium-sized either.
Are you an international student? If so, have you checked on what kinds of visa/regulations apply if you want to work/do internships?
There are job opportunities for CS students/grads around Fort Collins (where Colorado State is located) as well as the farther-away Boulder/Denver areas where you could theoretically work/intern in over the summer.
But as Corbett says, CSU has 33,000 students and it’s considered to be a big school.