<p>I'm torn on where to go and I'm down to only a few days to decide. My four main concerns are getting a starting job, getting into grad school, having options, and obviously having an amazing time.</p>
<p>I would be going undeclared to either college, with the intention of declaring a specific business major for my junior year. I just want to explore and get a real education first.</p>
<p>I absolutely loved Fordham. The campus is beautiful, the classes are small, and the choices are endless. Everything I have read about the school says that any parties are only off-campus (due to lack of housing) and that the educational program is "rigorous". Even though this is definitely the college leaning toward, I'm worried that I'll be bored and buried in work.</p>
<p>Maryland is a way bigger party/sports school, has a way nicer campus, and has been ranked equal if not higher than Fordham in every college rankings list that I have read. It seems like I'd have more fun here and come out with an equivalent degree.</p>
<p>I wish you could attend colleges for like a week and then make your decision. Please help!</p>
<p>I don't know anything about Fordham but I have visited Maryland and someone in my family graduated from there. I agree that the campus is nice, but, at least for my child, the campus was also way too large. Some classes are blocked off to you if you can't make the walk within the 10 minutes allotted between classes. Do you like a very large campus? How do you feel about diversity? Have you looked at the surrounding area? I know that the school has a higher than average crime rate. Have you checked statistics?</p>
<p>D is going to be going to UMD. The size, altho daunting, also offers the greatest flexibility, options, and opportunities. You can make a large university small with a little bit of extra effort--getting to know your professors, and with the activities you choose to do. Re: making the walk within the 10 minutes allotted between classes....rarely do you schedule your classes that close together in college, anyway. People can argue this non-stop....either of your choices will be fine. Maybe it comes down to $$, convenience/hassle, and just--in the end, what's your gut tell you?</p>
<p>Fordham is a very safe school - in fact I can say we are one of the safest, if not the safest school in NYC. The only way you can get yourself in trouble is by walking alone in the middle of bronx at 3 AM (which some people do and consequently get themselves in trouble and Fordham's rep suffers due to their stupid decisions)...other than that I don't think you can give me one school that is safer than Fordham....we have a few security vans that roam around the Rose Hill campus (the campus is not that big about 80 acres) 24 hrs a day..Additionally, there are 18 emergency telephones, easily identified by a blue light, located throughout campus, all you need to do is press the red button if you feel you are in some kind of a danger. tton. These phones are directly connected to the Security Office and enable security personnel to know the exact location of the caller. At the Lincoln Center campus, red emergency phones are located on all floors of both the Lowenstein and the Law School buildings.</p>
<p>Fordham is getting better and better every year and we have a strategic plan lined up aiming to make Fordham the best Jesuit school in the country by year 2016 - raising the SAT average to over 1400, lowering accptance rate to 30% (the acceptance rate dipped down to 41% for the incoming class compared to 48% two years ago) increasing our endowment (our first target is to increase endowment from $365,000,000 to $1 billion in the next 5 yrs), and establishing new facilities and buildings on the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center Campuses. I really have a feeling that in the next 10 years, we will have an ivy league status and you will be very proud of your degree.</p>
<p>the business school has already started to feel the effects of our goal to establishing ourselves as an eminent Catholic institution. Ever since our new president stepped in a couple years back, the business school has established countless number of programs such as the 5 yr BS/MBA program which allows you to get both degrees from Fordham within 5 yrs, the CEO breakfast club which allows you to have breakfast and network with distinguished corporate leaders, Freshman mentoring program that allows freshmen to network with established corporate leaders that have graduated from Fordham (many partners of accounting firms, CEO's, the big shots working in Wall Street, etc.). As a testament, Fordham's business school rank has moved up to 34 according to Business Week and our average starting salary of $53,000 ranks the top 6 or 7 within the nation trailing by only a small margin behind schools like U Penn Wharton, NYU Stern, Emory, MIT, Carnegie Mellon. and UC Berkeley.
Top 10 recruiting firms that hired the most graduates in the past academic year No. hired
PricewaterhouseCoopers 32
KPMG LLP 30
Ernst & Young 25
JPMorganChase 11
Morgan Stanley 6
Deliotte & Touche 5
UBS Financial Services 4
Bear Stearns Cos. 3
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 3
OPHedge 2</p>
<p>University of Maryland: instate: $7,200 per year
Out of state tuition and fees: $14,560 plus about $800 in fees= $15,360</p>
<p>Tell me, Is Fordham worth DOUBLE in tuition of Maryland each year? This is in addition to higher room and board charges for Fordham. This also doesn't take into account the cost of living differential that will occur each year, which should exacerbate the problem!</p>
<p>If you don't want to attend a large state school, consider a small school such as St. Marys in Maryland,which is very good and just as inexpensive.</p>
<p>yea its more expensive and the cost of living is higher but with that comes access to countless opportunites to get an internship/job in NYC...needless to say and no offense but there is a huge difference b/n Maryland and NYC</p>