One thing about Cal POly Humboldt, look at the housing crisis they have going on thats been in the news a lot up there. Talks of housing in local Motels, on Barges etc. until 2025ish… when more dorms are built.
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Too bad about that…but couldn’t be worse than the shortage at most UCs and many of the other CSUs as well. That’s part of why we’re branching out to WUE. Housing in CA is just so unrelentingly hard!
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These are all WUE residential campuses that I’d take a good look at based on your son’s interests, though you already have the Montana ones:
- Central Washington: About 9600 undergrads
- Montana State: About 15k undergrads
- U. of Idaho: About 8600 undergrads
- U. of Montana: About 7200 undergrads
- U. of Northern Colorado: About 7400 undergrads
- Utah State: About 24k undergrads
- Washington State: About 24k undergrads
- Western Colorado: About 3200 undergrads
- Western Washington: About 14k undergrads
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awesome list. a few we’d overlooked!
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Someone above mentioned this and I just want to second it, Colorado Mesa University is worth a look. It is in Grand Junction, near the Utah border. Lots of outdoor rec opportunities. Can’t speak to the environmental science majors but my daughter was a cellular, molecular, developmental biology major (switched from biochem at one point). She was very happy with her classes. She went there for the cycling team and is staying in Grand Junction after graduating last December while applying to medical school.
She also looked at Fort Lewis but found it too small for her liking.
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Northern Arizona is a WUE school that could merit consideration. In the mountains in Flagstaff but not too far from Phoenix.
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For engineering major, Oregon state university is a good choice.
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WUE makes it’s cost a little less than UCs.
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Ranking of engineering higher than all low tier UC schools according to US News week.
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OSU will have a new technology center at 2025
- Not too far away, only 9 hours drive from Bay Area.
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I always think of University of Utah when people mention outdoorsy kids - my kids really liked it especially as it seems to attract kids interested in skiing, hiking, kayaking etc. A question of merit and University of Colorado, Boulder was asked above - it is not a generous merit school for OOS (or instate for that matter) - lots of CA kids there, but they’re paying full freight.
We know a few kids at Oregon State - can say lots of good things about the school, but for an outdoorsy one - go in knowing the weather. Our friend’s daughter who’s a track athlete transferred as she just couldn’t handle running in the rain day after day. Similar, but different warning of Fairbanks. Our friend’s daughter graduated last year and really loved the school - biggest negatives were weather and it’s a haul to get there - especially for shorter breaks like Thanksgiving.
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