Seeking fairly large, public university...

College Search & Selection
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<p>...of about 15,000 or more undergrads. Don't really want to go to a huge school, like over 35,000 undergrads, but I'm be flexible with school size. Not to sure about what I want to do yet as far as major, but I've been looking at marketing a bit. Since my father works as a doctor for a university, they pay half of their current tuition towards tuition at another college, which is just shy of $20,000 a year. This obviously opens up my options as far a school choice. I've already looked a bit at Illinois-Champaign, Kansas, and Cincinatti because I have relatives that went there. I live in St. Louis, MO and would prefer not to go too far from home, but that wouldn't be something that would keep me from going to a college that fits me well that's also farther from home.</p>

<p>Can someone please help me start out finding some other colleges that roughly fit the criteria that I've listed? Personal experience at a similar school that I'm looking for would be nice. Thanks in advance for a response.</p>

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<p>Maybe University of Pittsburgh. It sounds nearly perfect</p>

<p>PM me for details</p>

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<p>I forgot about mentioning grades, and the range I would fall in. I do pretty well, mostly Bs and a good amount of As, but I have not taken the ACT or SAT yet.</p>

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<p>Try U of Memphis</p>

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<p>Indiana University-Bloomington
Northwestern University (only 8,000 undergrads, does not offer Marketing as a major, but too good to leave out)
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Kansas-Lawrence
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>

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<p>What else do you want in a school besides a good-sized school?</p>

<p>Cold/snowy weather?</p>

<p>Warm weather?</p>

<p>Honors Colleges?</p>

<p>Greek systems as an option?</p>

<p>Rah rah big sports to watch?</p>

<p>Likely major, possible future career?</p>

<p>You mention that you’ll get $$$ towards any school. Do you mean that you’ll get about $20k or that you’ll get half of about $20k? (your post isn’t clear).</p>

<p>What about the rest of the costs towards college? What is your budget for that? </p>

<p>Out of state publics have COA’s that range from about $25k - 50k per year.</p>

<p>COA = cost of attendance (tuition, fees, room, board, books, misc.)</p>

<p>Here are some OOS COA’s of various good-sized schools that aren’t too far away…</p>

<p>$25,787, U MINNESOTA
$31,250, U ALABAMA
$33,750, AUBURN U
$31,872, VIRGINIA TECH
$34,812, U IOWA
$35,029, U WISCONSIN
$36,210, OHIO STATE
$35,311, U N CAROLINA
$40,086, U GEORGIA
$36,977, RUTGERS
$34,696, TEXAS A&M
$34,922, U DELAWARE
$36,094, U FLORIDA
$32,752, U PITTSBURGH
$37,416, U MARYLAND
$36,985, U WASHINGTON
$37,548, CLEMSON
$36,848, PURDUE
$38,120, GEORGIA TECH
$40,130, U ILLINOIS
$39,510, PENN STATE
$37,644, INDIANA U
$38,566, MICHIGAN ST
$38,974, WILLIAM & MARY
$43,742, U TEXAS
$42,570, U VIRGINIA
$47,188, U MICHIGAN</p>

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<p>Regarding the post above:</p>

<p>With weather, I’d probably prefer warm over cold, but it’s not going to decide where I go. Living in St. Louis, you see weather ranging from 100 degrees and bone dry in the summer to 5 and a snowstorm in the winter, so I’ll be able to handle weather.</p>

<p>As far as honors or Greek system, I’m not at the point where I’m really thinking about those, I’m just trying to start my search. I will want a pretty big sports team to root for.</p>

<p>Also, as I mentioned above, marketing could be a possible major option that I’m thinking about, I may also be interested in secondary education.</p>

<p>Sorry if I was vague with the $20,000 tutition boost. The college that my dad works for requires about $39,000 a year in tuition, making half of it almost 20k that I will get off. It does not include other costs.</p>

<p>With paying for COAs, it will not be a major problem for me, although I still wouldn’t like to pay huge money for room and board, books, and classes, as other people would feel.</p>

<p>Thanks for the list you provided as well.</p>

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<p>You should look at Clemson University</p>

<p>14,000 undergraduates, one of the smaller public research universities in the country
Business and education are very strong majors here, other great majors here are in technical fields (don’t come here for liberal arts though) like agriculture, nursing, engineering (our strongest program), architecture, graphic communications etc… Tuition at Clemson is $24K a year, housing and food is about $7K a year and when you add up transportation and personal expenses and a laptop, you’re talking about $35-38,000 a year which is cheaper than a private college. Clemson isn’t exactly close to St. Louis but if you think you’ll fit in here, I think it’s definitely worth the extra traveling. Sports is huge here, our football team just recently went to the ACC championship and our basketball team just beat UNC and is in the top 25. People are passionate about sports, Fridays here are solid orange days where everyone wears orange. The weather is great here, it was 63 degrees the other day in January. We get snow about once a year and it is cold for a few weeks (as low as high in the 40s), but overall the weather is warm.</p>

<p>If you have any questions about Clemson, let me know here or via a message!</p>

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<p>:)</p>

<p>Have you gotten your PSAT back? How did you do on that?</p>

<p>When will you take the SAT & ACT? (take both!)</p>

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<p>I have not taken the SAT or ACT yet but plan to take both. I should’ve gotten my PSAT results during school on Friday, but in the class I would have recieved it, we had a sub that day so I don’t have it yet.</p>

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<p>Dude, look at Minnesota. Just head straight north and you will find one of the best deals in the country and an amazing Big Ten School in the the heart of the second largest city in the midwest. Plus at about $25K for OOS including room and board, it’s basically the cheapest top state school in the country.</p>

<p>Definitely look into it. GO GOPHERS!</p>

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<p>MNTwins, I do not mean to be too picky, but Detroit, not Minneapolis, is the second largest city in the Midwest. In fact, I am fairly certain that Indianapolis and Columbus are larger than Minneapolis too.</p>

<p>This said, I agree with everything else you said. The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities is one of the best universities in the nation, a great bargain and the town of Minneapolis is pleasant.</p>

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<p>Alexandre is correct. Detroit, Michigan is the second-largest metro area in the Midwest. Minneapolis doesn’t even come close. </p>

<p>Metropolitan Areas (Source: 2000 Census)</p>

<ol>
<li>Chicago (9.1 million)</li>
<li>Detroit (5.4 million)**</li>
<li>Minneapolis-St. Paul (3.0 million)</li>
<li>St. Louis (2.7 million)</li>
<li>Cleveland (2.0 million)</li>
</ol>

<p>** This doesn’t include the Canadian side (Ontario) and Northwest Ohio (Toledo), which would increase to 6.0 million.</p>

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<p>IU - Bloomington
Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Binghamton
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Kansas - Lawrence</p>

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<p>not sure if I should mention that Minnesota has 40,000+ undergraduates since the OP did say that he wanted a school with about 15,000 students, not sure how big he wants to go though. Pittsburgh definitely fit his size requirement, Binghamton might be on the small side.</p>

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<p>Does Binghamton have big sports to watch (I don’t know what the SUNYs have in terms of big sports - such as football/basketball, etc).</p>

<p>as for size…he says between 15,000 - 35,000 undergrads. (not larger than 35k undergrads)…</p>

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<p>Binghamton doesn’t even have a division I-A football team, probably not a good choice for the OP. And Minnesota is out because of the size as is Illinois. Also, Indiana and Cincinnati are not exactly the warmest places to be. (nor is Pittsburgh but it’s a good enough school that it should stay under consideration in my opinion)</p>

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<p>Minnesota has about 29,000 undergrads and the OP said he doesn’t want over 35K. He said he was flexible with size and I think this could be a good choice so I threw it out there.</p>

<p>And yes, Alexandre, Minneapolis/St. Paul is the theird largest city behind Detorit but with Detroit’s, um, less than stellar condition right now, I’ll modify my phrase to: the second largest city in the midwest that you’d want to go to school in.</p>

<p>EDIT: I looked some things up and when you combine Minneapolis and St. Paul together (cause honestly there is no break between their urban areas) the population is just slightly less than both Columbus and Indy, but the land area of Mpls/STP is half of Columbus and a third of Indianapolis so no wonder. As someone else pointed out above, the metro area is the third largest.</p>

<p>Indy: 372sq miles
Columbus: 212 sq mi
Minneapolis: 58sq mi
St. Paul:56s mi</p>

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<p>Says who? That is your opinion, MNTwins. </p>

<p>Metro Detroit offers many cultural venues, and its location is only 5 hours from Toronto and Chicago. Let’s not even talk about the weather (Detroit has milder winters than Minneapolis). There’s a reason why more out-of-state people come to Michigan to pursue their post-secondary education than Minnesota. Michigan has two Big Ten universities that provide many research opportunities and top programs in their fields. Despite its current economic difficulties, Michigan also has more clout in the Northeast and West Coast.</p>

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<p>my bad, that statistic I was looking up was for the whole University Of Minnesota system</p>