<p>Which school has a better academic reputation?</p>
<p>University of Oregon has a better academic reputation.</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>You probably won't get too many responses, 'cause those colleges aren't that well known, I don't think ...</p>
<p>I live in Oregon and am a duck, but my advice would be dependent on your major:</p>
<p>OSU is very engineering/science oriented</p>
<p>UO is business/liberal arts</p>
<p>Economics with a business concentration</p>
<p>"You probably won't get too many responses, 'cause those colleges aren't that well known, I don't think ..."
People haven't heard of University of Oregon or Oregon State? I really doubt that.</p>
<p>I think they meant that not many people on CC talk about them because their the oh-so-dreaded state schools (sarcasm here). Both are schools with good reputations and you'll receive an excellent education. For business or economics, I would go to UOregon. As skyhawkk08 mentioned, OSU is eng/science oriented and UO is business/liberal arts. If you're choosing solely by major, go to UO. My closest friend here at college (iowa state) is from Oregon, if you want to know about their social life or anything ask and I'll see what she knows as she grew up in Corvallis and has friends at both schools.</p>
<p>"I think they meant that not many people on CC talk about them because their the oh-so-dreaded state schools (sarcasm here)."
Haha, I know what you mean. Any school that isn't ranked in the top 50 by USNews is garbage and is not worth discussing. There are many people here with this elitist type of attitude.</p>
<p>Well I didn't even apply to OSU and will probably end up going to University of Oregon if accepted. Oregon State is in a rural area and that did not appeal to me. In California, I know that University of Oregon is more well known. What I was looking for was how people from the state of Oregon view these two schools.</p>
<p>For Economics, I would say that U of O has a better reputation. BTW, one of your considerations should be the cities in which these two schools are situated. Eugene and Corvallis are very different places! Eugene is much more liberal and is a bigger city than Corvallis.</p>
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<p>What are we doing here then? Go to Eugene. And if not there, figure out a back-up, which I guess would be OSU.</p>
<p>They are both excellent schools, with different strengths. Absolutely they are well-known outside the Northwest. I spent three years at U of Oregon in the early 80s and loved it (transferred for reasons unrelated to the quality of the program). If I were a college student today, I'd go to U of O in a heartbeat.</p>
<p>I didn't mention it above, but I seriously thought about attending UOregon for sports marketing when I was choosing a school last year. It and a handful of other publics were high on my list (actually I only applied to state publics) but OOS costs kept me home. Great school, great city, outstanding education!</p>
<p>"I didn't mention it above, but I seriously thought about attending UOregon for sports marketing when I was choosing a school last year. It and a handful of other publics were high on my list (actually I only applied to state publics) but OOS costs kept me home. Great school, great city, outstanding education!"
I'm from out of state (California), but I'd be a transfer student. For two years, I can afford to pay the out of state tuition. I really wish I had applied to some of these schools as a freshman.</p>
<p>So what school did you end up at?</p>
<p>Iowa State. With three of us in college at the same time, OOS costs were too much.</p>
<p>From what I've heard, Iowa State is a nice school and it has a good academic reputation. I have a friend at University of Iowa. He said that Iowa State is a bit more tame (in terms of the parties/drinking), which probably isn't a bad thing - fewer distraction, but still enough to do if you want to go out. Did you not like the atmosphere at UI?</p>
<p>Honestly--and it sounds bad in retrospect--I was born and bred a Cyclone :) and hardly considered UIowa. I didn't even apply. Another factor was that UIowa's campus is spread throughout the city in a way, and I wanted a true campus. And also before I came to college I wasn't into drinking and partying that much--even now in my second semester, I only drink a couple nights a month. We go out alot but the pressure to drink isn't as heavy as at UIowa. I've spent a few weekends in Iowa City with some friends and it was insane! One reason UIowa has a bigger party rep compared to ISU is that people are allowed into bars at 19. And it's not hard to get a drink once you're in--i.e., if one person at a table of 8 is 21 and orders 4 pitchers of beer with 8 glasses, most places will still bring the beer even though they know--and watch--what goes on. At ISU you have to be 21 to get into bars so parties are mainly reserved for the dorms and apts on/off campus. I love being at a big school, period, because there's always something to do. There are parties, club events (just last night we had a ski/snowboard club Rail Jam that was awesome that i worked at), games to go to, anything you can think of. So I guess you could say it's the atmosphere of ISU that sold it for me.</p>
<p>Both of them sound great. I was thinking about applying to University of Iowa, but decided that it was too far from home.</p>
<p>Skyhawkk's description is a good place to start your evaluation. OSU is strong in the sciences. U of Oregon is not bad in this area, but OSU has more assets in the sciences. Both are fine schools. One is urban/suburban the other is rural/remote. And by the way, Non-resident admission to U of O is surprisingly competitive. Lastly, despite its location, OSU is closer to Portland than U of O.</p>
<p>I hadn't heard that OOS was very competitive. We will be touring in April as OOS. Do you have any specific reference to different oos guidelines? I don't want her to fall in love with it if she won't have a shot.</p>
<p>PA Mom, I meant to say that aid for OOS is not great.</p>