<p>My D is interested in the speech pathology program at Towson. She has heard that it is a suitcase school and it gets very lonely on weekends. Some kids love it and others seem to hate it and transfer asap.</p>
<p>If you know anything about Towson, good or bad, please share....we'd really appreciate it.</p>
<p>I really have no direct experience, but DS#1 goes to school with a kid who grew up in Towson and doesn’t have a whole lot of nice things to say about it. Besides being pretty suitcase-ish, it’s just not a very pretty place.</p>
<p>That said, if she’s found a strong program she’s interested in, that’s something. (I think a friend of mine did a graduate program in speech pathology at WVU–worth looking into?)</p>
<p>One young woman I know is there for speech pathology and is happy; it is supposed to be a good program. She is an in-state freshman. I don’t know how often she comes home. Towson trains a very high number of Maryland’s teachers and has grown quite a bit in the last decade. </p>
<p>You will want to ask how many students live on campus and if housing is guaranteed. There are several colleges around the same area. I don’t know how much they interact with one another. I think that there is some opportunity to take classes at different schools.</p>
<p>I know that housing is not guaranteed all 4 years. I want to say it’s only guaranteed the first year, but I could be wrong.</p>