<p>Hi Guyz,
I need urgent help about selecting my university. First of all I am not that much smart to apply in Dartmouth or something like that. I have got I-20(acceptance) form Iowa State university and SUNY buffalo. In both cases I have got admission from Business School and buffalo also offered me 2500$ for each year. Now guyz which one I should select?.confused
Before posting any comments I should draw your attention on some facts
1) In US news ranking Iowa State is 81 whereas Buffalo is 120
2) I first chose buffalo but I came to know that their engineering is very good. But don?t have any idea about their business school, although Wall Street ranked Buffalo among top 50, this ranking is not reliable like US news
3)Both Universities have very good endowment but Iowa state seems to me pretty much favorable for giving scholarship to international students than Buffalo, they use to give up to 9000$ for each year while Buffalo use to give 2500$<br>
4) In the tab ?service and facilities? of Us news ranking, there is a point titling ?companies who frequently hire graduates?. In case of Iowa State I didn?t find much renown business firms, but Buffalo have handful business firms like Bank of America, HSBC, Chase Bank, UPS, DHL ,Fleet Bank ,Citigroup and so on?it seems to me that buffalo?s alumni is better than Iowa State.
So my fellow American friends what do you think? I also must say buffalo is cheaper only 13000$ whereas Iowa state?s tuition is 16000+$ for each year.
Waiting for your replies??.
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<p>buffalo has a really large international population if that counts...
and also there is so much more to do around buffalo (and niagara falls and much of ontario for that matter) than there is anywhere in Iowa</p>
<p>Thanks ajr</p>
<p>hey guyz need some advice</p>
<p>Ok, I'm from Iowa, so I'll try to (objectively) give some info.</p>
<p>First, I doubt a difference in ranking (from 81 to 120) means anything; the schools are on par with each other.
Second, Iowa State is a very good engineering school as well, though I don't know anything about the two schools for business.
Third, Iowa State is a rural campus, and is not very diverse. I am a minority (indian) living in Iowa, and personally, this is something that I find problematic. Another poster said Buffalo has a large intl population, so I'd guess it has the (big) edge.
Buffalo is on teh east coast, so it makes sense that certain companies recruit that place. But where you go to school (geographically) may have a big impact on possible sites for future employment (geographically), so keep that in mind.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>I go to Iowa State and am in the b-school. It's.....alright. If I could afford OOS tuition I would. Okay its not really that bad but its not cream of the crop or anything. Even for a big school there is plenty of personal attention though. My advisor probably deals with ~1500 to 2000 students a year, and knows me by name when I'm walking around campus and remembers me when I come into his office. And there are small group learning teams.
As Karl Marks pointed out, the state of Iowa as a whole is not very diverse, but the ISU campus is probably more diverse than the state. Most of this is due to our international students studying engineering, other hard sciences, and business.
Iowa State has four or five career fairs a semester (one each for the colleges of business, liberal arts, engineering, agriculture, and maybe another). Businesses are mostly from the Midwest but come from Texas, Colorado, Minneapolis, Chicago, St Louis, Kansas City, as well as the more "local" places.</p>
<p>Thanks card4life. I guess u are probably right about the diversity.</p>