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Let's say I go to college in Minnesota or Illinois (I live in NJ) and come back to the east to get a job in NYC. Will I have less of chance of getting a good job because I went to school somewhere else? What if these universities are in the top 20 as dictated by the US News and World Report rankings? What if it is a small college in the top 30 of all liberal arts colleges? Any advice? Real-life input? Thanks!
as long as the college you go to is accredited, you will not have any problems at all. the most important aspect is your grades. if you graduate in the deans list and accademically very good, that is what matters. like the fellow before me said, all prospective employers see what you have accomplished while in school. not just because you go to the top colleges means you are assured of a job. examples are my two sons. they went to the university of new orleans. they did not go the LSU or tulane university as we had limited income. they have GREAT jobs. one is a geologist in a big oil company and the other one is a project engineer also in a prominent company. they both graduated with outstanding grades and had no problem with getting jobs. remember, it is what you accomplish in college and not the college itself that matters. put your hopes within yourself and your achievements and you will go far. good luck!
My sister got rejected from her top pick which was UCLA. She did get accepted to UC Irvine and some other small liberal arts colleges in the area though. Her problem now is that she's obsessed with rankings and all other schools seem to pale in comparison with UCLA. She says she doesn't want to go to a second rate school. Would it be better for her to go to UC Irvine or to go to a community college and transfer into UCLA later? As far as rankings go, UC Irvine is at #44 which I think is pretty good. I heard that the difference in undergrad ranking doesn't make that much difference anyway. What should I tell her?
It depends on what her major is and whether she intends to go to grad school afterwards. If grad school, then yes, undergrad does have some importance although UC Irvine is still a good school. Otherwise, if it's just undergrad, it doesn't really matter too much as long as she gets the education she needs to succeed in life.
I definitely want to be a novelist and/or maybe look into journalism on the side, so I would like to attend a school with a reputable program in those fields (like creative writing, american/english literature, journalism, etc). I want to go a rather small/medium sized, undergraduate school where classes are intimate and students and faculty really get to know each other by names rather than going to a school where you’re one in a hundred in your class. I’m still looking, but I need some suggestions. Did you or anyone you know attend colleges similar to what I’m looking for? I would greatly appreciate it if you can help me out. And please don’t just refer me to college rankings.
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The quality of a school’s English Department is highly correlated with the overall quality of the school. Therefore, the list of best liberal arts colleges for English is pretty much the same as the list of best liberal arts colleges. US News ranks liberal arts colleges. See the first link below.
The second link is a ranking of top graduate programs in English. These schools all have excellent undergraduate programs. Schools like Duke and Stanford only have about 6000 undergraduates. Most classes at these schools have fewer than 20 students.
I definitely want to be a novelist and/or maybe look into journalism on the side, so I would like to attend a school with a reputable program in those fields (like creative writing, american/english literature, journalism, etc). I want to go a rather small/medium sized, undergraduate school where classes are intimate and students and faculty really get to know each other by names rather than going to a school where you’re one in a hundred in your class. I’m still looking, but I need some suggestions. Did you or anyone you know attend colleges similar to what I’m looking for? I would greatly appreciate it if you can help me out. And please don’t just refer me to college rankings.
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You can find top listing of liberal arts college courses in this site – findcollege.hotusa.org
It also has info about each, tips to apply and which grades should you expect (to comparison)
I definitely want to be a novelist and/or maybe look into journalism on the side, so I would like to attend a school with a reputable program in those fields (like creative writing, american/english literature, journalism, etc). I want to go a rather small/medium sized, undergraduate school where classes are intimate and students and faculty really get to know each other by names rather than going to a school where you’re one in a hundred in your class. I’m still looking, but I need some suggestions. Did you or anyone you know attend colleges similar to what I’m looking for? I would greatly appreciate it if you can help me out. And please don’t just refer me to college rankings.
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Bowdoin (Maine), Williams (Massachusets), Tufts (Massachusetts), and Swarthmore (Pennsylvania) are the best little private colleges in the US. http://www.swarthmore.edu/englishliterature.xml College of William and Mary (Virginia), Miami University (Ohio), University of Vermont, SUNY Binghampton, and Pitt also have excellent programs.
