Really struggling my daughter accepted to both UCONN and UMD engineering. She wants UMD. In Honors in both school but UCONN is MUCH cheaper. UMD has higher engineering rankings but UCONN has overall better National and Public school rankings. Which ranking carries more weight? The overall school or major? I am just struggling with the price difference but don’t want her to not be happy with her selection. Any feedback would be appreciated!
I will send you private message later - what discipline in engineering?
Undecided engineering
I live in CT. My daughter chose UMD(full OS tuition) over UCONN but UCONN didn’t have her major. Both my husband and I went to UCONN along with most of our family. My daughter loves UMD but if UCONN had her major she said she could have been happy there. A lot of students from our high school go there so my other daughter didn’t want UCONN for that reason and goes to Purdue instead.
Either way she is making a great choice. My husband has worked for UTC for over 30 years and they hire a lot of engineering interns for the summer from all different colleges not just favoring UCONN.
UMD is also close to DC which my daughter loves. She likes the fact she doesn’t need a car to get around and the Gym is so nice. I know UCONN is building a new one.
I think both of my daughters miss being closer to home though and being able to just come home for the weekend if they wanted like their friends at UCONN do.