<p>University of California Merced is highly underrated.</p>
<p>UT-Martin is very underrated, but it’s literally out in the middle of nowhere, so I guess that’s what drives people away.</p>
<p>Also, people like to bash UT-Knoxville, but I think it’s a pretty decent school.</p>
<p>lilswole is funny</p>
<p>Purple University, overshadowed by a certain establishment of higher learning in Rhode Island also named after a color.</p>
<p>Every SUNY and CUNY school, there all overshadowed by Cornell, Columbia, and NYU. Even though most of those state schools in NY have more Nobel laureates then both of the Ivy leagues. There was a time when the CUNYs were considered the best state schools in the country, way back in the day they were called the “poor man’s Harvard”, sadly they lowered there standards and now are considered bad.</p>
<p>Ive never heard of Purple University lol, they should change the name.</p>
<p>yea SUNY and CUNY schools get dissed on here a lot</p>
<p>^ I’m fairly positive that was a joke and Purple University doesn’t exist -.-.</p>
<p>Lol at Lilswole. Dude, are you really that full of yourself that you copy and paste that fake sig into every post outlining your “accomplishments” and how buff and bass ass you are?</p>
<p>Also, UH might feed relatively well into Houston, but that doesn’t make it a good school. I heard only bad things about the school when I was looking where to go.</p>
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I disagree with you about CUNY. Their standards for admission are very low (with the exception of certain program). I’m from NY State and the students in my grade who ended up at CUNY were mostly those with C and D averages who weren’t accepted to SUNY schools. There were some good students who attended CUNY for financial reasons too, since they are a great deal at $2k/year. I have taken classes at CUNY over the summer and the quality of education wasn’t what I expected. It’s not that the professors aren’t competent - they all have PhD’s obviously - but I felt the material was dumbed down so everyone could pass and less was expected of me as a student. Maybe this is just for the 3 classes I took though - I was never a full-time student.</p>
<p>CUNY also has some very good programs - like the Forensic Science program at John Jay College and Hunter Macauley Honor’s College, etc. I’m not trying to say that it’s a bad university or anything (it offers an affordable education to thousands of low income students in many fields of study which is more than I can say for my college) but I don’t think it’s one of the most underrated universities.</p>
<p>I notice that you listed Columbia, Cornell and NYU as NY State’s “prestigious schools” but you forgot Cooper Union!</p>
<p>Maybe PurpleU is a reference to Williams</p>
<p>^ I got the impression that he meant that “Purple” was in Rhode Island, too. Williams isn’t in RI. I could be wrong though (about what he meant lol).</p>
<p>[Unless you meant Williams University. In which case, I don’t get the Purple reference.]</p>
<p>@springreen, yea that’s now after the open admissions thing they lowered their standards. Well besides Baruch, I heard that school is extremely rigorous. But I was referring to way back in the days before the 70s when CUNYs were highly prestigious and up there with NYs private university’s. I didn’t mention Cooper Union because, well not many people know it. But it is a fine institution. If I do add Cooper Union then I might as well add Fordham.</p>
<p>See, that’s why I listed Cooper as the most underrated. You (and I’m guessing you may be a New Yorker) regard it similarly to Fordham. No offense to Fordham (it’s also a fine institution) but Cooper is very highly regarded in its 3 programs and I consider it at the same level as Columbia or at least Cornell, academically speaking. </p>
<p>Fordham, I consider similar to NYU in terms of prestige and academics. I suppose it’s a matter of opinion. I agree it’s a shame CUNY lowered its standards. I can’t believe I forgot about Baruch, my dad and grandpa are both alums!</p>
<p>@longhorndan </p>
<p>I’ve heard nothing but good things about the Business school.(Bauer) Yea i think most schools feed well in their city. (like SMU)</p>
<p>springreen, I feel that Cooper Union’s academics and rigor are recognized at that level already… At least I and my family recognize it. It is well ranked on colleges without PhD programs on USNews (which, though arbitrary, brings attention) for engineering. I am surprised to say the least that NYU students had not heard of it.</p>
<p>Ask the average American if they’ve ever heard of it and they’ll probably look at ya funny. Hell, ask the somewhat-above-average American and chances are you’ll get the same reaction.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of it, but I’m not from that area.</p>
<p>In Western PA, we have an abundance of small private Liberal Arts schools that all claim to have incredible academic reputations - which most be true (in their eyes) because they are charging $40,000 - $50,000 per year. However, if you leave the state of Pennsylvania (hell, if you leave the county or western side) no one has ever heard of these colleges.</p>
<p>Here are a few:</p>
<p>Mercyhurst College
Theil College
Westminster College
Allegheny College
Geneva College
Gannon University
Grove City Colllege</p>
<p>There are alot more, just drawing a blank. I’m not criticizing them, it’s just I don’t understand how they can charge such high tuition for relatively unknown and obscure programs. </p>
<p>I went to Mercyhurst College then transfered out, I wasn’t real impressed with it and it was over-priced in my opinion. Plus it was very small (4,000 students) which isn’t my style.</p>
<p>I think it’s best that students go to a college where they feel happy, comfortable and accepted. But damn, if it were my daughter I’d probably say, "Hunny, is there anyway you could feel happy, comfortable and accepted at a less expensive school? LOL</p>
<p>Wow… thats amazing. Thats pretty mind blowing for me to hear that Cooper Union isn’t well know outside of its area. I assumed that it would have been on the same if not higher tier than Olin College of Engineering - which I think is getting to be pretty well known in itself.</p>
<p>It’s not like Olin is the most well known school either…</p>
<p>UH is definitely not a good school. Almost everyone can get in there. Hence, that is why there is so much diversity too. Loads of African Americans, Hispanics, & Internationals. Even my friends who go there say it isn’t much of a school. UH Bauer MBA program is the only spotlight for UH, which is good mostly in the Houston area only. Other than that, it’s pretty much like high school, except with a bigger student body.</p>