<p>Major: Business - Marketing/Possibly Management Information Systems
COA: Same
Proximity to home - Syracuse is 4 Hours away, Temple is 2. </p>
<p>I love both schools, and both have known business schools with a strong alumni network. Help?</p>
<p>Syracuse University is the better college. It has higher endowment, higher graduation rate, higher rankings, higher campus life rating etc. North Philly is not a good place to be for 4 years.</p>
<p>So you have chosen Syracuse, a private, and are now thinking that the weather sucks in upstate NY and would much prefer the warmer climate and crime in Philly?</p>
<p>Syracuse! I would go to Temple for med school for that I would put up with philly. (philly is a bad place), the slight weather difference is not worth the safety issue.(IMO)</p>
<p>Philly is not a bad place. It’s a city and like any other city, it has good and bad areas. I do agree that the area Temple is in is a tough, high-crime area. I do know many parents, however, whose kids are going to Temple and they say the actual campus is safe - but not the areas around it. The main problem I see with Temple is that when kids move off campus, they tend to disperse into different areas of the city that are nicer. And that can create less of a cohesive, campus feel since not everyone lives right near the campus.</p>
<p>Given your choice, I would go to Syracuse. It’s a better university. But for those who don’t know Philly, it’s generally a nice city with many nice areas. It’s not fair to judge a whole city by its worst areas.</p>
<p>I would go with Syracuse</p>
<p>I would go to Syracuse too. But I don’t understand those commenting on the safety of Philly…after spending 4 undergraduate years in Syracuse, I can tell you that Syracuse isn’t exactly an upscale city either. As with many large uni’s in college towns, the main campus is surrounded by a very economically depressed industrial “city”. You can’t walk beyond the campus limits at night…not that you’d really want to because there’s absolutely nothing around.</p>
<p>Nobody is talking about the whole Philly. We are talking about North Philly…Unless you have been there, you don’t know what its like.</p>
<p>North Philly IS awful, I agree. It’s the worst part of the city. But Zobroward said “Philly is a bad place” and I wanted to make it clear that it wasn’t the whole city. People going to Penn, for example, are in a totally different part of the city. Any city school will have some crime concerns. But North Philly is a whole 'nother level of crime.</p>
<p>To be honest, when I visited Temple, I asked at least 25 students randomly (a lot of which were girls, I am a guy) about the safety concerns and whatnot, and they said they’ve never felt unsafe. Obviously I wouldn’t be walking around sketchy areas of North Philly at 1 in the morning alone, it’s like any other city - use common sense and you’ll be OK. The surrounding neighborhoods of Temple are clearly depressed, but Philadelphia as a whole I feel is a more thriving city than Syracuse is. </p>
<p>Can anybody comment on the business school compared to overall reputation? From what I’ve heard, Temple’s is better, though more input is always good.</p>
<p>^No Syracuse is better for Business and overall.</p>