As a student looking to major as a computer engineer I have been admitted to SDSU and OU. These two schools were not really my top choices but because of my low test scores these are the schools I have been admitted too. I plan on attending one of them for just my freshman year and hopefully transferring to USC for my sophomore year and staying there to get my degree. I currently live in Texas so I will be paying out of state tuition for both sdsu and ou. My main question comes which one is the better one to go to and hopefully transfer out of. I think sdsu would be an easier school and therefore I could maintain a higher gpa but then again I fell as if ou is more prestigious and might look better on paper. I am really trying to look at both of these schools as if I was going to stay at them for all four years because obviously i can not guarantee that I will be admitted into another university as a transfer student. Which school would a degree in computer engineering look more impressive from? I think sdsu looks like it would be a lot of fun to attend but at the same time it looks like it could offer many distractions that ou would simply not have. I would really like to hear from various people and their opinions on this topic because it would be great help for me. I am having to make my decision in the next few weeks and I am just really unsure of where I should go. I feel as if sdsu isnt that great of a school but then I see the admissions rate and how low it is and it really makes me second guess myself. The school looks like a lot of fun but as a CE major I dont know if sdsu supplies me with the best resources and connections. My ultimate goal is to transfer to usc but I wouldn’t be against transferring to another cal school at all. But as I said earlier I need to look at these two options as if I was going to stay there for all 4 years. Thank you for taking the time to read this post and I look forward to hearing yall’s opinions.
If you live in Texas, there are probably still some Texas public universities with late application deadlines that offer computer engineering and cost less than the out-of-state public universities.
Prairie View A&M University
Texas Tech University
The University of Texas - Pan American
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
University of Houston
University of Texas at Arlington
@ucbalumnus So would you recommend going to a local school and then trying to transfer out? I mean I like sdsu and ou a lot its just I dont want to get my degree from either of them really. Do you think I would have an easier time getting into usc via transfer from one of those schools rather than sdsu or ou?
If your primary goal is to transfer, you may also want to consider starting at a low cost community college.
Of course, if you attend a four year school, you can just stay there and finish your degree there if you are not admitted to any school to transfer to, or decide not to transfer (because it is too expensive or whatever). If you attend a community college, you need to apply to transfer to various schools (e.g. various Texas public universities) so that you have somewhere to transfer to if you do not get into your primary target, or it is too expensive.
It really does not make too much sense to attend a more expensive out-of-state public university if the goal is to transfer to another school.