<p>Going for business, UMD has a much better business program but Delaware is about $4000 less expensive. I live in NJ, distance is not a factor though. I like both campuses but probably like Maryland's better.</p>
<p>Cons of UDel:
-not as highly ranked as Maryland
-Business program not as good</p>
<p>Cons of UMD:
-more expensive than Delaware
-heard there is a lot of crime
-really big</p>
<p>I am looking for any opinions on which is a better overall choice.</p>
<p>Thanks!!!!!</p>
<p>I recommend going to Maryland. It is a much better school academically, and the difference in cost isn’t too much. You can make it up if you are smart with your finances and work hard. UMD is big, but remember that it’s easier to make a big school smaller than a small school larger. College Park is a city so there’s going to be crime. If you use your common sense than you’ll be fine, just as with anywhere else in the world. Also, the campus really is amazing!!!</p>
<p>Well, I really can’t recommend one or the other for you but I can expand on things and provide some corrections to your assumptions. I’m not sure you can say MD is a “much better school academically.” I believe the two are ranked closely? MD does have a more respected business program, which you pointed out. Additionally, $4,000/yr is sizable but it is not like we’re comparing a 50K/yr private versus 20K/yr for in-state. $4,000 can easily be made over the summer or even during the year. Would you be struggling with the costs/need to work over summer and during the semester even without the added $4,000? Then it might make a bigger difference. I think the perception of MD as high crime is extremely inaccurate. It’s more urban than UDel but that just means you have to be more street smart. I wouldn’t count it as a minus. </p>
<p>However, its size can be a problem. I have found it to be a problem for myself. They say you can “make a big school smaller” but sometimes a big school is just a big school - the advising can be bad, you can feel like a number, etc. Humanities classes are hurt by being so large. As a business major, however, MD’s size is less of an issue, both because of the type of classes you’ll be involved in as well as because as an LEP, business is a “school within the school” at MD and is fairly small. What is the difference in student:faculty ratio within the business school between UDel and MD? It might not be that big. </p>
<p>I prefer MD’s location near DC and the greater metro area (+ Baltimore) for internship opportunities in business. DC is also just cool in general.</p>
<p>thanks guys a lot of help so far</p>
<p>To me the crime thing is getting close to being on the level of an URBAN MYTH. There is some truth to it, but it is warped to believe that you will be locked in your dorm after sunset because everyone who goes out are taking a high chance of rape, mugging or murder.</p>
<p>College Park is also a TOWN, it is not just a university. It is a large TOWN. You need to place that into perspective.</p>
<p>UMD and UDEL are night and day differences. UMD is an ACC school and athletics plya into the social life. UMD is close to DC which expands your horizons. The campuses have a total different feel.</p>
<p>UMD also has the number 18 in the WORLD Graduate Business School, I believe it is in the top 10 in the nation. UMDCP itself is in the top 20 public universities in the nation.
UMDCP students feed into that Grad school.</p>
<p>You need to look 4 yrs down the line. Yes, 4K yrly is more, and you may have to take out an additional loan. However, are you going to go straight on for an MBA or work and then go to Grad school? That question actually is a trick question.</p>
<p>Scenario A
~ Go straight to MBA…if at UMD you will have a higher chance to get into Smith, which is ranked by USNWR, because you are attending an undergrad that is higher ranked nationally than UDEL</p>
<p>Scenario B
~Go to work straight out. Who should the employer select the student who went to UMDCP (nationally ranked in the top 20) with a 3.0 gpa and internship to XYZ company or the student who went to a lower ranking college with the same background? Of course if everything is equal they are going to take the higher ranking college.</p>
<p>For all you know in 4 yrs from now you graduate from UDEL and get paid 10K a yr less than the kid who graduated from UMDCP. In essence it would only take you 18 months to repay that 16K. Don’t be busy jumping over the nickels to pick up the pennies. That 16K would be the pennies because you are losing sight that higher education quality typically results in better job opportunities. Maybe a better analogy would be life is a marathon, yes you can get a cheaper education (sprint), but in the end will you win the race?</p>
<p>Well, I agree that 4K a year is not a large difference when going into a business profession, but I don’t think you should fall into the trap of picking a college just because it’s ranked higher…</p>
<p>I do not think your job opportunities graduating from UDel are going to be significantly different than your opportunities graduating from MD. Certainly graduate school admissions would not look down on you for either choice. The one thing in MD’s favor is its Baltimore-DC area location, which I imagine WOULD help expand your job/internship opportunities.</p>
<p>It always bugs me a /bit/ when people use the “all else being equal, wouldn’t they pick someone from a higher ranked school?” trope. The fact of the matter is rarely ever (if ever) are two candidates going to be equal…everyone gets unique internships, grades, recommendations, and has unique ECs and cover-letter and resume-writing and interviewing ability. You will hardly ever be faced against a candidate that is the “exact same” as you, unless you have purposely tried to be very average and mediocre ;). And I hope you wouldn’t!</p>
<p>The crime at umd won’t affect you that much because it really doesn’t happen on campus. usually if you go to stores and stuff off campus you might get mugged. Most people don’t go off campus that often cause really, it looks pretty crappy. But the campus is beautiful and the people are very chill so I recommend going to UMD.</p>
<p>“usually if you go to stores and stuff off campus you might get mugged.”</p>
<p>Haha this is not true…</p>
<p>I mean, the general sentiment of on campus being safer than off campus is true.</p>
<p>But off campus is fairly safe as well.</p>
<p>It’s not really a problem of going to stores but more of a problem of wandering around in secluded areas drunk at 4am. You should avoid that if you don’t want to get mugged (not to say my friends and I haven’t done it and gotten away with it, because we have, but that seems to generally be the problem with mugging).</p>
<p>Honestly, think of money…both schools are great. Delaware is pretty awesome, try to stay out of debt TRUST me.</p>
<p>Sorry, don’t mean to be rude, but I have to just clarify- Smith is most certainly not 18th in the world, and it is not top ten in the nation. The generally accepted “authority” ranks Smith at 16th out of top undergrad b-schools. 16th is fine, but not top in the world by any means. </p>
<p>That being said, UDel’s b-school undergrad program is ranked 83. 83 to 16…</p>
<p>Choose where you want to go. I ended up picking Maryland over another school, even though it costs me $25k a year more and the other school’s b-school is ranked 31, which isn’t that far off from 16. Also look at how US News ranks your major- for mine, IS, Smith is ranked 6th.</p>
<p>Best of luck (:</p>