<p>@xraymancs…there are co terminal degrees for BS MBA at Iowa and Illinois which I am sure of. However they have special selection procedure.
@MYOS1634 I came here to know exact cost to attend However the four colleges that interest me have cost in increasing order as follows:
Iowa State University: 34,344$
Illinois Institute of Technology:35,000$
SUNY at Buffalo:35,000$
Florida Institute of Technology:33,000$
*All values are approximate and including scholarships.</p>
<p>I will come up with few more details in a tabular form…and thank you all once again for helping me out with such impersonal motive. God Bless All!!</p>
<p>It is probably going to be a LOT cheaper to live in Iowa than in Chicago. </p>
<p>My nephew attended Iowa State for Chemical Eng. Respectable eng school.</p>
<p>Once you tabulate the details and decide after scholarships what the cost at each institution approximately will be, then you decide if spending X more would make A, B, C a better place to go (cost effective).</p>
<p>Try to distinguish which schools have comparable aerospace programs (if you really know that will be your engineering field), and if you can manage some business courses along the way so you can perhaps go to a 5th year MBA.</p>
<p>My D is going to UA for civil eng, will be in the honors program, so during her 1st year, she can apply to the 5th year MBA program - has to have at least a 3.3 college GPA.</p>
<p>Perhaps at your short list of schools, you can check in to their university honors programs (if you are eligible) and see what they offer.</p>
<p>Right now, based on the information you provided, I’d say go with Iowa State. The tuition costs are slightly less than the others but most of all, as SOSCOncern stated above, it’ll be cheaper to live there (cost of living, cost of things, apartments if you wish to move off campus after freshman year…) There’s a good college town and the atmosphere should be rather laid back. And there’s less snow than in Buffalo :).</p>
<p>I agree about the low cost - TAMU has affordable housing options and also probably close to what Iowa State is. Be sure to get all the details you need from these two schools.</p>
<p>Well, before you revealed the scholarship information, I was going to say that for me the choice would be between Texas A&M and Ohio State. Texas A&M has better weather, but Ohio State is a more interesting location (Columbus). Both have large student bodies and and big sports; TAMU is more of an “engineering school” while Ohio State is great in a variety of areas.</p>
<p>But given that you have scholarships at some of these, that changes things a lot.</p>
<p>Iowa State’s CoA is $32,000 per year.
IIT’s tuition is about $21,000; average cost of housing is ~$7,000 and the 14-meals-a-week plan is $5,000, making the total cost of attendance around $33,000 - but a discount of $20,000 per year makes it wash out to $13,000.
Florida IT is very expensive - their total CoA for a double room is $50,319; with only $4,000 per year that’s $46,000.
Ohio State’s cost of attendance is about $35,000, and TAMU’s is about $39,000.</p>
<p>(BTW, this information was very easy to find OP - I just Googled “Iowa State cost of attendance”, for example.)</p>
<p>So IIT is the cheapest at about $13,000 after the scholarship. Iowa State is next, at about $32,000, but OSU and TAMU’s aren’t <em>that</em> much higher at $35,000 and $39,000 respectively.</p>
<p>So personally I would go with IIT, which will still put your parents in debt about $52,000 (manageable, assuming that they are about the U.S. equivalent of middle-class). If Iowa State offers you some financial aid that will bring the cost down to about half, then I would choose Iowa State over IIT. But there’s absolutely no reason for your parents to go $120K+ in debt to send you to OSU or TAMU.</p>
<p>Thank you all for the wonderful replies. One more thing has cropped in mind just now…
I want to know following things:
- How many academic breaks are there?
- Since, I wont be able to return back home, how will I arrange accommodation and food?
- How much would breaks cost me in addition to the estimated cost?
- Is there any other additional cost I should keep in mind for on per year basis?</p>
<p>Thanks once again…</p>