<p>Hello I'm a student from San Diego currently in Community college. I'm wondering what southern colleges with big sports programs would be best for someone that is from California. I currently have a 3.4 college GPA, and my major is business, so a schools with a good business program would be great too.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>How much can you afford? Most of the Southern schools with larger sports programs are publics which give limited aid to non residents. </p>
<p>Price limit? Do not expect much, or any, need based aid other than possibly federal aid.</p>
<p>Lets just pretend their is no price limit.</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>Will your parents pretend that there isn’t a price limit? or would THEY have a price limit?</p>
<p>Seriously…if your parents won’t pay, then this is a waste of time. </p>
<p>BUT…if your parents will pay $35k-45k per year for you to go to a southern big sports school, then hey, Roll Tide…go where there are over 900 other Calif students. </p>
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<p>Hmmm…and later you indicate that your parents will now pay about $40k per year because your sister is graduating? Is that true?</p>
<p>If so, then did you apply to Alabama? Gorgeous campus (much better than icky FSU…what a messy unkempt campus that is!) Bama also has a very good Business school, which seems to interest you. </p>
<p>Well i wanted to eliminate the price limit factor because i may or may not be able to afford schools around 40,000 range. So basically im just curious about potential schools. What is your opinion on University of Tennessee and UGA. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>UTenn…UGLY…one of the ugliest campuses. Too many instate kids 91% instate</p>
<p>UGa…too many instate kids. 92% instate</p>
<p>With instate numbers like that, practically the only OOS kids are athletes. </p>
<p>What could possibly interest you into going to UTenn???</p>
<p>Collegeboard lists Bama as 55% instate, but when the latest enrollment numbers are published, that will become 50% instate. Plus, Bama is gorgeous and kept in immaculate condition (something that visitors often mention).</p>
<p>Are you going to visit?</p>
<p>I know Kansas isn’t really southern but University of Kansas is also really beautiful and they’re big on sports. also 75% in-state which is not too bad.</p>
<p>Lol…only M2CK can make me defend UGa and UT-Knoxville (but even she can’t make me say anything nice about FSU!!).</p>
<p>UT has an overall average business school (on par or better than UA), but it’s particularly strong in Supply Chain Management and Logistics (a top 10 program). OOS tuition is $29K a year.</p>
<p>(the best business schools, in the south, tend to be at the state flagship universities, which also tend to have the highest OOS tuition rates…).</p>
<p>UGa has the better overall business school (top 50 program) with strengths in several areas. OOS tuition is $28K a year. If you’re looking at UGa, you also may want to take a look at Georgia Tech.</p>
<p>Looking at the other flagships…</p>
<p>USC (University of South Caroline) has the highest ranked International Business program in the country. OOS tuition is…$28K a year.</p>
<p>Ole Miss ($18K a year) and MSU ($17K) are much more affordable. If you’re looking into accounting, Ole Miss has one of the best programs in the nation. </p>
<p>Some of the above schools may have competitive scholarships (like Ole Miss) that’s available to transfer students.</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
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lol…My only negative about UGa is that it is full of instate students. That can become an issue when there’s nothing significant happening on campus on weekends. Since nearly all the students can go home for the weekend, there will be plenty of weekends where the OP would be lonely.</p>
<p>UTenn has 2 negatives…ugly…and also full of instate students. </p>
<p>JMO, but I think a Calif kid would be more comfortable at a southern school that has a good number of OOS students…especially a good number of students who aren’t from the SE region. </p>
<p>Ole Miss, hands down. Tons of California kids go there. </p>
<p>Why not go to a CSU or UC that is likely to be more affordable?</p>
<p>^^
Sounds like he wants the Big Div I experience…and outside of UCLA and Cal, the Calif publics are lacking. With a 3.4 GPA, perhaps UCLA and Cal are unattainable?</p>
<p>UGA’s on campus social life is excellent, and Athend is far enough from ATL that relatively few students go home every weekend. Also, Atlanta is IMO extremely similar to LA in many respects. Personally I don’t think a Californian would have trouble at the school in the way he would at say Mississippi State or the University of South Florida.</p>
<p>The University of Oklahoma might be an option. Because of OU’s prominence in the state and proximity to both OKC and Dallas, a good number of recruiters visit the school. There are also direct flights from OC’s John Wayne airport to Oklahoma City.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for giving me so much helpful information i really appreciate it.</p>
<p>“I don’t think a Californian would have trouble at the school in the way he would at say Mississippi State or the University of South Florida.”</p>
<p>Just to confuse the OP, a few positives about MSU and USF!</p>
<p>It’s hard to be more “southern” than MSU and when it comes to football, just google “MSU cowbell”. In addition to the low OOS tuition rates, they offer transfer student scholarships!</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.msstate.edu/scholarships/community/index.php#community”>http://www.admissions.msstate.edu/scholarships/community/index.php#community</a></p>
<p>USF has a fairly large business school, though it’s not as highly ranked as many of the other schools we’ve listed. As a “directional” school, it’s fairly selective (Average Freshman GPA 4.0(weighted), 1200 SAT and 27 ACT), has one of the lowest OOS tuition rates for Florida ($17K/year) and has a great location (Tampa). They do have several Div 1 sports teams, including a well supported football program, but it’s clearly not SEC level mania. </p>
<p>“UT has an overall average business school (on par or better than UA), but it’s particularly strong in Supply Chain Management and Logistics (a top 10 program). OOS tuition is $29K a year.”</p>
<p>In addition to the national ranking for the Logistics/Supply Chain Management program, the UT College of Business Administration just received a $50 million donation: <a href=“http://utdailybeacon.com/news/2014/nov/10/business-college-set-big-growth-donations/”>http://utdailybeacon.com/news/2014/nov/10/business-college-set-big-growth-donations/</a> . So, I would look for the College of Business to become even better than it is now.</p>
<p>Also check out Clemson, Univ. of South Carolina, and TCU.</p>
<p>TCU and OOS Clemson are quite pricey. </p>