@sportsman88 “If nothing changed, it would provide a great education and acceptable advising, etc. but forecasting future budget cuts on an already stressed system concerns me.”
Right. I don’t want to send our daughter there wondering whether she will need to transfer in a year.
We have been especially troubled by the state universities’ penchant for managing changes in student demand for various majors by actively funneling students by limiting/blocking access to high demand majors, and forcing them to either choose among lower demand majors or transfer elsewhere, particularly within engineering.
The private colleges are offering much better flexibility and understand the need to adjust their product to student demand. I think that this is much more difficult to achieve this at a public university with more bureaucracy and less budget, and a generally unstable environment.
I was hoping that we wouldn’t need to spend the extra money for a private college, but after all of our visits she is leaning strongly that way.