So I’m from Illinois and I really don’t want to live here after I graduate college, or most of the Midwest.
However, I did visit this school private school in state and I love it. The business school takes students to conferences around the country and there are a lot of out of state students, but it seems that from the list of where students get hired after graduation, it’s mostly Illinois.
I’m just wondering, since it’s private, the only financial advantages of being in state is the pell grant and not having to pay for plane tickets, would I be better off applying somewhere out of state? OOS public schools are cheaper or the same price. It is going to be tough to convince my folks about leaving Illinois tho.
Which option would be better for my future considering I wanna move out of the Midwest after graduation?
Out of state public colleges and universities will be much more expensive than your instate publics. You will pay the higher out of state rate at any school outside of Illinois.
This is not true.
The original post appears to be comparing the price of an in-state private with that of OOS publics. S/he makes a valid comparison.
^ In Illinois, the cost of instate publics is higher than the cost of some OOS publics. What is why Illinois students go to OOS publics in Michigan and Wisconsin, for example.
Ex. UW -Stevens Point for OOS has lower COA than UIUC for instate residents.
If you attend Northwestern, UChicago or UIUC your geographic mobility will be high. If you attend northern Illinois or Bradley not so much so.
You can move anywhere after graduation- most people stay near where they are from because they prefer to, not because they can’t move. In addition to going to conferences, you can apply for summer jobs/internships in parts of the country that you would like to live in. Those summers will give you local experience- and more information as to how you like living there.
As for OOS publics being less expensive- that’s not usually the case. If you are a rising senior, spend some time this summer researching a range of colleges that you can afford w/ little to no debt and that are interesting to you.
I went to UT-Austin and moved to Maine immediately after getting my degree.
…demonstrating that Longhorns are Longhorns, wherever they roam, eh @MaineLonghorn?!
This may simply reflect the desires of graduates and it may also reflect graduates getting job offers based on internships. Also, your first job after graduation doesn’t dictate where you spend the rest of your life. Think strategically about what kinds of employers this college sends its students to.
For example: are the employers who hire from this school national or international sized with offices in Illinois? Taking a job with a multinational company at their Illinois office can launch you onto a career track that lets you live in many different places (with the added bonus of paid relocation).
That’s good point I mean at the school I was looking at, they are nationally renowned and some have locations all over.
And yes I’m talking about in state private vs out of state public. Plus it doesn’t help that there’s pretty much only merit scholarships not need based at this particular school.
Yes that’s a really good point! If I can get accepted for an internship that would definitely open up my opportunities for post graduation.
I’m looking at DePaul. It has an excellent reputation in Illinois and the rest of the Midwest but most of my friends from outside the Midwest were like, “where’s that? Never heard of it” when I told them I got in.
Make it a gradual move, don’t pick schools near hometown but stay within driving distance for undergrad. Go out of state for grad school.
My degree doesn’t really need a masters. Technically not a bachelors either but I wanna be competitive for jobs.
Two things here, a Pell Grant would be available at any school across the country (if it’s not a bad actor). Yes to the plane ticket.
The bigger issue is if you are Pell eligible how will you pay for the school?
Last, you can move anywhere after graduation. Large companies hire from all across the country.
“Last, you can move anywhere after graduation.”
Exactly. My first reaction reading this thread is that UIUC is recognized everywhere in the US. A degree from there would help you get a job anywhere that you want to move to. I have certainly heard of DePaul also, although I don’t know much about it. If I saw a resume from there (I won’t, I am not a hiring manager now) I would probably think that it was a good university.
I have not seen a detailed discussion of finances in this thread. @n61019 what options do you have, what would each cost, and how much of this would be debt for your upon graduation? Are you a junior trying to decide where to apply next year?
The one issue that occurs to me is that companies mostly recruit from local schools, and in a few cases from famous schools. Thus a company in Massachusetts is not likely to send someone to DePaul to try to recruit graduates.
This is true for small and medium sized companies, but at large companies, recruitment happens where the corporation has offices.
So a small company that is based in Massachusetts will not send someone to DePaul, but the Chicago office of Big Multinational Corp will send someone to DePaul. And after OP spends a year (or does a few internship turns) at the Chicago office, they are well positioned to be an internal hire at any other BMC office on the planet.
“or does a few internship turns”
The internships are a good point. If a student does internships for example over the summer, then this will help them get a job at the same company whether at the same location or elsewhere. This will also help the student land a job at other companies if the people where the internship occurred have connections elsewhere. Many of the people I know through work have connections all over the place (including but not limited to all over the US).