<p>I have been accepted to SOKA University of America. But as a foreigner, there's only so much information I could get through online. Anyone has other information to share? I am pretty keen to going to this school so I would like to know if it's a decent school or not?</p>
<p>Hi! One of my friends got accepted to SUA with a full-ride scholarship which means she does not have to pay for anything if she enrolls. However, she still takes SUA into consideration hard as SUA only offers one major: Liberal Arts. This will limit her wish to learn many things and in my opinion, learning liberal arts is learning everything but not specific in anything so that may be not a good thing. But what my friend loves SUA are its strong studying abroad program and good location. The financial aid also cannot be better, which is also a factor that one must think twice. Hope this partly helps!</p>
<p>Soka has a tiny enrollment - less than 500 total undergrads, I believe. So that would be major consideration. The campus is pretty and spread out over many acres. It looks like it was built to have a much larger enrollment, maybe in the 2000-3500 range. It is also off on its own at the top of a master-planned residential community, and you would need a car for transportation.</p>
<p>Soka is ranked #49 in National Liberal Arts Colleges in the US in US News & World Report’s Best Colleges 2013 – and #1 in diversity and % of students who study abroad (100%). It has an average class size of 13, but limits its admission to about 110 undergraduates each year…lots of personal attention, but only 438 current students. Everyone lives on campus in the residence halls. It offers four concentrations: Environmental Studies, Humanities, International Studies, and Social and Behavior Sciences. Every undergraduate spends a semester abroad during the junior year – it’s required for graduation and the cost is included in tuition. It’s a great education but you need to be really self-motivated – no back of the classroom here. Good luck on your decision!</p>
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<p>Im a undergraduate graduate from SUA. I went there in 2007 and focused in the humanities. My background was largely in science (I thought I wanted to go into Physics). Going to SUA was huuuuuuuge in helping me learn about myself.</p>
<p>The school is very small, which means you will become very close with everyone. Not just your classmates, or even the people at the university, but also alumni and faculty. This is hugely meaningful after you graduate because you will have friends from all around the world.</p>
<p>One of the most interesting things to me about SUA is that you have connections with people with so many different interests. Rather than having friends who are all interested in the same thing, you have people who are driven about a wide array of issues and subjects. Just to do some name dropping, in my graduating class, I had friends go to Yale, Columbia, London School of Economics…as well as students who were admitted to fellowships, peace corps, and teach for America. Very very talented people.</p>
<p>Personally, I pursued software development so I make websites and online applications. I was really interested in street art and the motivating factors behind street artists. I wrote my senior thesis on the digital social community, Reddit. My focus was looking at how people who didn’t have any physical connection could be so personally connected. Most recently I started researching the explosion of educational technology companies. I wrote and presented a paper on it at SUA’s Student Research conference this last February.</p>