ChelseaArganbrig

I got accepted to University of San Diego, but found out it's going to be $35,000 for one year (and i qualify for $29,000 in loans, which needs a cosigner because of my bad credit). After being accepted there, I started thinking about the possibility of going to the University of Massachusetts in Boston, which is $21,000 for out-of-state tuition. USD is private and UMass is public, but which one has the better reputation and prestige? I was also looking at Bridgewater State College in Mass, which would only be $12,500 for out-of-state tuition. i would really like to live back east, but don't want to relocate and turn down USD if it means I would just be moving to go down in reputation (college-wise).
Thank you

Saturated

I know that the umass boston has probably the worst reputation out of the umass schools, definitely worse than umass dartmouth and amherst. I dont know about the rep of USD but BSU dosent have a great rep either. Its an okay school but nothing too special.

LakeWashington

Try UMass-Lowell or Salem State College. Keep in mind that these are very LOCAL, regional colleges. Virtually all the underclassmen will be Massachusetts residents and probably come from towns not to far from campus.

MADad

I don't believe UMass-Boston has any dorms. It is located at a subway stop for commuters.

UMass-Lowell, Salem State and Bridgewater State all have dorms. Both Salem and Bridgewater aren't that small, close to 10K students each. In fact, there was a proposal recently to convert them to satellite campuses of UMass.

.lovelondon

Here in Massachusetts, Bridgewater State is not well regarded. Most people would rather go to a community college than there. No one actually says why though.

Although, if you want to go into education, Bridgewater would be a good school to go to. I'm pretty sure its ranked as one of the best teaching schools.