<p>I would to know if theres any other good colleges out there besides the current popular colleges you hear every 2 threads about it. Whats the name of the college and whats unique about it? (majors/price/community/good environment/ect)</p>
<p>Well for engineering, or architecture theres cooper union, a free school in manhattan.</p>
<p>Chico State (california): the school over all is not very good except for construction magangment. And the community is great and a very good envromet with a lot of nice people. Chico also has a huge park miles wide and big party scene; but it's still a state.</p>
<p>Wooster, Rhodes, Knox are all very good small LAC's in the midwest.</p>
<p>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (San Luis Obispo, CA) - Specialty is a very hands on education in Engineering, Architecture and Business.</p>
<p>Hampshire College in Mass. in a small town with an open curriculum. very liberal student body and a small LAC. In the book "Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges."</p>
<p>Adding to Barrons list of great LAC's outside of the Northeast (yes, I know I left off Carleton, Macalester, Oberlin, and Kenyon - all great schools, but no longer "unknown") :</p>
<p>Lawrence U in Wisconsin - top notch academics, excellent physics department, excellent music conservatory</p>
<p>St. Olaf College in Minnesota - amazing study abroad programs, larger LAC
(2900 students), excellent in math, biology, and English</p>
<p>Hope College in Michigan - excellent undergraduate science research program</p>
<p>Trinity University in Texas - nice San Antonio location, pretty campus, great programs in engineering, business, physics, psychology and philosophy.</p>
<p>Albion College in Michigan - very strong political science program</p>
<p>Kalamazoo College in Michigan - the very unique K-Plan curriculum lets you combine liberal arts studies with internship co-ops and study abroad. </p>
<p>Earlham College in Indiana - Like Swarthmore and Haverford, has Quaker values. Top notch programs in chemistry and biology. Excellent med school placement. Unusual majors in fields like Peace & Global studies, Human Development, and non-profit management, unusual study abroad programs.</p>
<p>Goucher College Maryland - require study abroad for all students starting this year and backing it up with a $1200 grants to everyone to pay for travel expenses. Can cross-register with other Baltimore schools, including Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>Beloit College in Wisconsin - Excellent programs in English, creative writing, theater, archeology. Has a well-funded center for entrepreneurship that offers grants to help students start their own businesses. Free-spirited and creative student body.</p>
<p>Whitman College in Washington State - Excellent all around academics, certainly the equivalent of schools east coast schools like Haverford, Hamilton, etc. but not yet impossible to get into (that is starting to change, however). Unique "semester in the west" program where faculty and students travel together across the western half of the U.S., studying environmental and political issues.</p>
<p>College of Wooster in Ohio - Requires all students to complete a three-semester independent study in their major, well-respected by graduate schools.</p>
<p>Denison University in Ohio - great economics program, beautiful campus.</p>
<p>Lewis & Clark University in Oregon - absolutely beautiful setting with views of snow-covered Mt. Hood in the winter. Just outside of Portland, a great city. Excellent programs in biology, English and international studies.</p>
<p>St. Mary's College of Maryland - Maryland's public liberal arts college. Very strong academics, beautiful water front setting.</p>
<p>Knox College in Illinois - wonderful creative writing program, guaranteed med school admissions agreement with Rush Medical School in Chicago.</p>
<p>Willamette University in Oregon - Location across the street from Oregon state capital provides wonderful internship opportunitiies, especially for pre-law and poli. sci. students. Strong pre-health and pre-med advising.</p>
<p>University of Puget Sound in Washington - pretty campus with urban amenities. Strong science, language and study abroad programs.</p>
<p>Chapman University in California - great film program for those who want to be in LA but don't make the cut for UCLA or USC</p>
<p>University of Redlands - Quirky Johnston Center program lets you custom design classes and curriculum to fit your needs, also has a wonderful music program.</p>
<p>Sewanee/The University of the South - Tennessee - absolutely stunning 10,000 acre campus, unique traditions such as honors students wearing academic robes passed down through generations of students, excellent academics.</p>
<p>Universities that deserve more attention:</p>
<p>James Madison University in Virginia - Terrific programs in business, drama, communications and poli. sci.</p>
<p>George Mason University - very strong political and international affairs program, located right outside of D.C., great choice as a back up for GWU or Georgetown for people who don't like American or Catholic U.</p>
<p>Santa Clara University - California - beautiful campus near Silicon Valley, great for engineering, computer science and political science</p>
<p>University of San Diego, California - Private Catholic university, Another picture perfect campus, excellent programs in the sciences, political science, peace and justice studies.</p>
<p>Marquette University in Wisconsin - Terrific communications, business administration, engineering programs.</p>
<p>University of Wisconsin Madison - fun city for college students, ranked
among the top in many departments, great honors college program</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh - like UW, top programs in many areas. Honors college is terrific.</p>
<p>University of South Dakota - smaller, liberal arts focused university. Strong for pre-med. Friendly, and generous with merit money for out of state students.</p>
<p>Bowling Green State U in Ohio - great for career-focused students with programs in many areas, especially strong creative writing program.</p>
<p>Ohio University Honors Tutorial College - study one on one with professors, amazing research opportunities.</p>
<p>Humboldt State University in California - amazing for environmental science, very strong art school, beautiful coastal location in the redwoods.</p>
<p>University of Washington - Invigorating location in Seattle, top notch programs in many areas.</p>
<p>There are, of course, many many more out there, but I'll let others name them. If anyone wants individual suggestions, please PM me and I'll be happy to help. :)</p>
<p>deep springs- great schools that takes liek 10 kids a year, 2 year school where they FARM, but after 3 years most will go to yale harvard ect</p>
<p>franklin olin college of engineering- very selective, free, top eng program</p>
<p>as someone said cooper union</p>
<p>Bowling Green is pretty good, the philosophy program is strong. The CW program is good and has produced a lot of now-famous writers, (such as Terry Ryan the author of 'the prize-winner of defiance, ohio) a lot of the kids in my dorm are CW majors. Overall, the school is pretty good, but I'm not really digging it. (social reasons, not academic)</p>
<p>The College of the Atlantic is absolutely awesome if you're interested in biology, environmental science, the arts, or anything that crosses traditional academic boundaries, and it's one of the very best places to study (and actually experience!) marine science as an undergrad. They only have one major, Human Ecology, that can adapt to pretty much anything you can think of. With a student body of ~300, the college is <em>very</em> cozy. Warren Wilson is a similar school in a different setting.</p>
<p>UMBC is a great school here in Maryland. Excellent engineering, and science program.</p>
<p>Southern Oregon University (SOU) in Ashland, Oregon. Excellent theatre arts program, and a three year accelerated degree program. In fact, SOU was recently mentioned in a New York Times Magazine article regarding colleges that are hidden gems. Ashland is located in southern Oregon, about 10 miles from the California border (on the I-5 freeway) - gorgeous town in the beautiful Rogue Valley, surrounded by the Siskiyou mountains.</p>
<p>Eugene Lang, very small LAC with a liberal, intellectual bent. Students can take courses at NYU (and use its library), New School, Parsons, Mannes School of Music.</p>
<p>I second Cal Poly SLO</p>
<p>Ditto College of the Atlantic, it's where i'm applying :D</p>
<p>I am currently in high school looking for business schools to apply to. I plan to own my own business but want to go to a top college with a high number of job recruiters so that I can get a good picture of the field. Could you tell me some of the undergraduate business schools with the highest number of recruiters for jobs/internships or give me a website where I can find this information. Also, could you tell me of some colleges that provide daily "hands on" or actual scenerios from the business field.</p>
<p>Third Cal Poly Slo</p>
<p>College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. Only Jesuit underad-only liberal arts college in the country. Very prestigious in Northeast Catholic circles. Tightly knit community with close student/faculty interaction. It's got a beautiful campus on outskirts of city. Decades ago it was a national athletic power (major bowl games, national champs in basketball).</p>
<p>Wayne State University. Large research university in middle of Detroit, which has some decent neighborhoods that are being revived. Full range of majors. Supposed to have the largest medical school in the country. I know lots of people who went there for undergrad, and I've never heard any of them complain about it.</p>
<p>Allegheny College - Meadville, PA. One of the oldest colleges in the country, it is a very lovely campus with ivy covered buildings along with newer ones. The school is strong in bio, chem, geology, political science, psych and history. They require comprehensive research projects - "Comp" - from all students as a requirement of graduation.</p>
<p>I would also add SUNY Geneseo, a very selective public liberal arts college. Students by all accounts are happy and most are able to attend their grad school of choice. Outside of NY State, noone has heard of it.</p>