The title says it all. I am from Texas and I have been accepted to both and would receive $12,000 minimum per year from Mines and I do not know about A&M scholarship (if any) yet. I would get a degree in computer science. I am visiting both schools this month. Did anyone else have this conflict? If so, what did you choose and why?
Thank you in advance.
12 a yr from mines still leaves a lot of money, right? Tuition for you at TAMU is about 10K, COA at CSM is going to be 40K a yr. That 12K from mines is for anyone with >29 ACT and 3.5 GPA. In mines speak, that is almost any OOS applicant. I thought is was mere smoothing as it is overpriced to cost in these types of “scholarships”. TAMU unquestionably the better choice IMO. Will you live on campus?
Yes, I would live on campus.
R&B is about 10K for you in texas, so your COA isn’t going to be more than 25 at TAMU. You still might get some scholarship $ there? ?
Hopefully. I applied for a few, but not too many. I am not sure if they do any based on purely test scores.
What do you want to study? A&M has a big name, and rank for many subjects. Mines is small and personal
and rigorous. Some majors may be better at one versus the other, although they overlap well.
For computer science, Texas A&M is much much bigger and probably somewhat better for faculty research work, if that interests you. The classes will be OK at Mines, but the job connections are not as good in Colorado. Texas has way more jobs than we do, in all high tech sectors and higher pay than Colorado as well, although we are catching up. Mines is having trouble hiring more computer science faculty. Its a very small department and they sometimes lose faculty to rapidly growing U of Colorado Boulder Engineering. I would pick Texas A&M for computer science.
There are some new robotics faculty at Mines hired recently, including Professor Bantam from Georgia Tech:
http://inside.mines.edu/~ndantam/