On a more promising note, FSU recently became the fiscal agent for the engineering college:
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2015/07/14/change-roles-famu-fsu-college-engineering-raises-concerns/30162799/
FSU was previously in a subordinate role in the partnership.
From what I hear, since FSU took over, long overdue facilities upgrades and repairs are finally being implemented after years of neglect and mismanagement, and morale has improved somewhat.
Does anyone have any info on the percent of an engineering student’s classes that are taken at the main FSU campus vs. the engineering campus during their four years? I’m looking for rough numbers, not exact. My assumption is that it goes from 25% of classes in freshman year to 100% of classes in senior year.
Sorry to dig this up again, but I’m trying to convince my son that FSU could be a great opportunity in spite of the remote engineering campus. He’s not buying it, plus he won’t have a car. Any info would be appreciated.
Seriously, if he’s not interested, why push the issue?
We just went through college search/selection/application. There was one school that I thought S would love, would do well at, and it was in a really great town. I convinced him to apply by pointing out he could re-use one of his essays from another school. And he got in, with great merit money, bringing it to about $1000 less per year than the state flagship.
He refused. “Mom, I still don’t want to go there.” He’s happy with the school he’ll be attending, and while I still think he’d have liked my pick…it’s his education, his college experience.
Good advice @petrichor11
He was very interested until he saw where the engineering school was located in relation to the main campus and FSU fits nicely into our budget, if he were lucky enough to get merit aid. So I was just trying to think of attractive points to encourage him to put it back on the list.
To be clear, I haven’t pushed it. I’m trying to think of things that would make it more attractive.
In the end, I’ll probably drop it.
Again, there are a lot of students who don’t have cars but go to the Engineering campus every day. While living on campus, busses run out there starting at 7:30am. When moving off campus, you can find a place near a bus stop or you can live near the engineering campus. Within the first one-to-two years, your son isn’t going to be taking many engineering classes anyways. Maybe one or two a semester - max, depending on how many credits he’s coming in with. I strongly urge yall to come visit campus and then take the bus to the Engineering campus. Our campus is so small, having the engineering school “off campus” truly isn’t any more different than having to get to another building on the other side of a larger campus.
It’d be nice if NO ONE went to the engineering school. It’d force the state to make a change.
If no one went to the engineering school, the change that the state would make would be to shut down the engineering school, not build a new one for FSU.
The cost of giving FAMU the current engineering school and building an entirely new one on FSU’s campus was never going to be approved by the state, as it was $100 million +. And the time it would take to complete such a transition would mean that things would be disrupted for a significant length of time. It was never a popular idea in the legislature.
Probably so. But it seems like bad logic. They should merge every program at FAMU and FSU if all they care about is cost.