<p>I have been admitted to both Santa Barbara Community College and California State University Chico. If I attended SBCC I would transfer to UCSB after 2 years. My major is Business-Accounting and I can't decide which college to attend. If I went to Chico I would have the 4 year college experience living in the dorms, at SBCC I would live off campus in an apartment the first two years. I can't decide if getting a diploma from a UC school such as UCSB is that much more important than getting a diploma from a CSU such as Chico. Please help in my decision process, thank you!</p>
<p>The “4-year college experience” is overrated and is much less important than getting the best education you can get. If you perform well at SBCC and get into UCSB, you have your junior and senior years to get that experience, and you leave with a UC degree.</p>
<p>Thank you for your response and yes I agree that getting the best education is important. But what do you think in terms of getting a job, how important is getting a UC degree compared to getting a CSU degree?</p>
<p>Well, it depends on which UC and which CSU (UCM versus Cal Poly SLO would likely favor Cal Poly SLO, for example). But for UCSB versus CSU Chico, I would expect more employers visiting the career center at UCSB, due to greater prestige and being less out of the way (though still more of a trek from the Los Angeles metro area than UCLA or other Los Angeles area schools).</p>