Who goes to private colleges?

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[pennylane]

Public. UC Berkeley.

 

[slpaulson]

public
Wisconsin

 

[erub]

Originally posted by: heathertre

Originally posted by: RollWave
Northwestern for undergrad, Tulane for Grad.

I love the private institution feeling. Its a smaller, generally close-bonded community!

That's why I decided to go to a private college. I like the small classrooms and actually getting a professor teaching your class and not a TA.

I never had a TA teach anything other than a lab.

4 year public: Texas A&M University
Grad school (Public): Georgia Institute of Technology

I did go to private elementary school, middle school and high school, and parlayed those into some nice scholarships for undergrad, and that into a free graduate school..so maybe it was worth it

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: Jeff7


Perhaps I'm reading these incorrectly.

Huh, odd. I was told by workers at the University that it is a private college, and that the University of Pennsylvania was the public one.
This page does say "Penn State is a multi-campus public land-grant university..." whatever "land-grant" means.[/quote]

You believed people who said that Penn STATE University is a private school?

 

[BrownTown]

private - Vanderbilt University

maybe the Penn State people were thinking of U Penn?

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Huh, odd. I was told by workers at the University that it is a private college, and that the University of Pennsylvania was the public one.
This page does say "Penn State is a multi-campus public land-grant university..." whatever "land-grant" means.

My mind is boggling. UPenn is most definitely a PRIVATE school. Penn State, however, while not in PASSHE, is a public university. However, they get public funding, yet control remains independent of the state.

 

[slpaulson]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Huh, odd. I was told by workers at the University that it is a private college, and that the University of Pennsylvania was the public one.
This page does say "Penn State is a multi-campus public land-grant university..." whatever "land-grant" means.

I'm pretty sure land grant universities are all public. They are basically universities that were set up on on public land after an act of congress while Lincoln was in office. I know Lincoln was the president at the time, which is why UW - Madison has a statue of Lincoln.

 

[panipoori]

public: University of Houston

 

[imported_Cameron]

Public
Indiana State University

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
Private - Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

I just left there....My advice to you...do not bother with the commencement. It was a waste of time.

 

[Pupdog5301]

public: uc berkeley

 

[Aikouka]

Private: Lycoming College.

Probably never heard of it :laugh:. Oh and Penn State is most assuredly a public school.

 

[amish]

Private.

went to butler university

 

[MobileLoser]

Private - Northwestern

 

[Born2bwire]

Public

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

[djheater]

Community College for pre-reqs and private with a 'too convenient to pass up' night program.

 

[SoLiDus88]

Private: Cooper Union

But everyone gets a full-ride.

 

[slsmnaz]

Public-Univ of Tennessee

 

[ggnl]

My family = poor, so I went to public school. But hey, I can't argue with only 20k in students loans upon graduation.

 

[mitaiwan82]

Public - THE University of Texas at Austin

 

[faenix]

Private: Washington University in St. Louis

but I don't pay a single penny

 

[Dirigible]

Originally posted by: ggnl
My family = poor, so I went to public school. But hey, I can't argue with only 20k in students loans upon graduation.

My family was poor, so I went to a private school. The financial aid was much better at private school and it ended up being significantly cheaper than the UCs. Go figure.

 

[Umberger]

Go Hokies!

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Did my BS at Michigan. Finishing my MS at a private school (program's tuition is heavily subsidized by the school, it's cheaper than Michigan was in-state). Going to Wisconsin for my PhD (yay stipend!).