<p>What schools offer both strong engineering programs and significant NMF scholarships? Additionally, a good agriculture/animal science program is preferred, but not necessary. Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>What is your goal? Vet school?</p>
<p>How much merit do you want? In other words, how much will your parents pay each year?</p>
<p>I am leaning towards going the engineering route right now, but also want to keep the doors open for vet school. Ideally, I would double major in an engineering curriculum and an animal science program. If I become an engineer, some type of graduate school would likely be in my future.</p>
<p>I can be flexible for a school that really offers everything I want, but I would prefer the school to offer somewhere between half tuition and a full ride.</p>
<p>Thanks, mom2collegekids!</p>
<p>If you happen to be from Iowa, Iowa State offers full tuition for in-state NMF. Their website is a bit vague about OOS, says OOS NMF may be eligible for a variety of scholarships. You’d have to call and ask. They don’t seem to differentiate between resident and non-resident at all for National Achievement or National Hispanic scholarship</p>
<p>* I would double major in an engineering curriculum and an animal science program. *</p>
<p>Frankly, it’s very hard to double major in another college’s major as an eng’g major. Eng’g majors already require more credits than other majors…and those courses are tightly sequenced.</p>
<p>It is possible to major in eng’g and be pre-vet (or pre-med), but to do a second major would be very hard to do within 4 years. My son was a Chemical Engineering major and premed. He’s now in med school. He went to Alabama. Alabama has a very good NMF scholarship.</p>
<p>Alabama NMF
5 years of tuition
1 year of housing - including Honors housing
$3500 per year stipend
$2000 study abroad
iPad</p>
<p>What area of eng’g are you considering?</p>
<p>celesteroberts – I will call Iowa State (I would be out-of-state). Thanks!</p>
<p>mom2collegekids – That is a good point. I may end up just doing the pre-vet thing as you said, but I think I would still like to be at a school with some kind of ag program to maybe do a minor or something. Alabama sounds like a very good option. My top choice school (not a NM school, which makes it really, really hard to choose to go there with less expensive NM schools out there) offers an honors major combining electrical and mechanical and that program is very appealing to me. So, I am leaning that way, but I don’t really have a clear idea about what branch of engineering yet. Thanks so much!</p>
<p>The very best engineering school (IMHO) offering large automatic merit to NMF is Texas A&M. </p>
<p>There are many others that are also quite good. See the list at the top of the forum.</p>
<p>Oklahoma State U.–full ride.</p>
<p>Alabama NMF
5 years of tuition
1 year of housing - including Honors housing
$3500 per year stipend
$2000 study abroad
iPad…the latest one</p>
<p>Forgot to mention…</p>
<p>As an eng’g major, you’d also get an additional $2500 per year…which would make the stipend a total of $6,000 per year.</p>
<p>Alabama’s PreHealth website:
<a href=“http://prehealth.ua.edu/[/url]”>http://prehealth.ua.edu/</a></p>
<p>These are generally the pre-vet courses req’d</p>
<p>English - 6 credits
General Biology with lab - 8 credits
Biochemistry - 4 credits
General Chemistry with lab - 8 credits
Organic Chemistry with lab - 8 credits
General Physics with lab - 8 credits
Math - 4 credits</p>
<p>For an eng’g major, it’s often easiest to get the above done as a ChemE major. Some Comp Sci students are also able to get all the pre-reqs done.<br>
Animal Nutrition</p>
<p>I second the recommendation for Oklahoma State University. They are very strong in both fields of study, and you can’t beat a full ride.</p>
<p>major combining electrical and mechanical and that program is very appealing to me. So, I am leaning that way, but I don’t really have a clear idea about what branch of</p>
<p>Are you coming in with a good number of AP Credits, such as AP Calc, AP English, AP History, etc?</p>
<p>If so, then you’ll have an easier time fitting in the Pre-vet req’ts as an EE or MechE major.</p>
<p>If you have not submitted to at least a few potential schools, you better hurry up. Many schools offer merit aids to potential NMF may have limited quota and will award to EA/ED applicants first. Some schools only offer scholarship to selected NMF (i.e. not all NMF). Some would also limit that to in state students. UIUC is one of them.</p>
<p>FWIW, WVU (West Virginia Uni) offers solid merit aid for NMF and would be a quick and easy app. If you look on their website, keep in mind that <em>I believe</em> that the NMF scholarship is ADDED to the other merit awards. The website isn’t clear at all, but that’s what I’ve heard from several in-state students who got extremely generous offers of merit aid . . . the awards kept adding up as letter after letter pours in . . . and for local instate students, some actually make a profit from going to undergrad if they live at home with parents (as they get to keep the same housing allotment). 
I don’t think it’s free for out-of-state, but it is definitely high merit aid. It has a respectable engineering program as well as a good pre-vet ag program. Morgantown is also a pretty nice town, if I do say so myself, lol. Nice biking/running trails, hiking, music scene, skiing not far, fun college town. (OK, too much partying, but, well . . .)</p>
<p>FWIW, however, beware of vet school plans, IMHO. (Dh is a vet; I manage our practice.) It’s extremely expensive, competitive, and the job market has tanked in the last few years as more schools are churning out more students . . . It’s a bad time to be a young vet, and it doesn’t look like it’ll be better in the coming decade or two. Wages are stagnant, and many new grads go months/years jobless . . . and debt loads can be staggering. It is possible to make a great living, but to do that, you need to be a great businessperson as well as a great vet and <em>very</em> hard working, not to mention lucky. For our own kids, our belief is that the ONLY way to make vet school make sense is to get out of undergrad for FREE (as in, Mom and Dad didn’t spend a lot and no one has debt), so that the great Bank of Mom and Dad can devote our modest resources to helping pay for vet school since we get off free for undergrad . . . It is INSANE to pay for vet school with loans and expect to repay with vet salary, especially if you plan to become a parent and not work full time for all of your child-rearing years. You can’t pay back 200k in loans on 75k salary and have any options in life, IMHO. (BTDT, still have the loans to show for it . . . and will until after all these kids’ colleges are paid for!) At least that is what we tell our kids, including the one who still says she wants to be a vet. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>If you are interested in Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities often offer pretty good scholarships to NMF. The total amount could be near or above full tuition. Their ChemE is within the National top 5 while other engineering are not as good but not bad at all.</p>
<p>^^^UMN also has an ag college on their St. Paul campus (I was impressed with all the animals etc. when visiting.) I would agree to check it out. S2 as a NMF 2 years ago was offered $10,000 p/year for the Gold Scholarship, $5,000/$7,000 Bentson Scholarship (the large amount for junior and senior year) and $1,000 or $2,000 (depending on your fafsa).</p>
<p>The University of Kentucky has a Biosystems Engineering program that is geared towards progressing to Vet Med – [Biosystems</a> and Agricultural Engineering - College of Engineering](<a href=“http://www.engr.uky.edu/programs/bae/]Biosystems”>http://www.engr.uky.edu/programs/bae/) </p>
<p>With the Patterson scholarship ([Academic</a> Scholarships for Freshmen | UK Student Financial Aid and Scholarships](<a href=“http://www.uky.edu/financialaid/content/academic-scholarships-freshmen]Academic”>http://www.uky.edu/financialaid/content/academic-scholarships-freshmen)), which is assured for National Merit Finalists, I would think the University of Kentucky should be on your radar, @thecollegeprowl. Good luck!</p>