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Your vote for "Most Underappreciated" lesser known colleges?
JeanJeanie
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I presume some folks here could reel off the names of all 4,000+ schools in the U.S. But for those of us who are just waking up to the wide array of colleges out there, I'd love to hear your vote for the most underappreciated or lesser known colleges (and what you think makes them unique or special)?
I'll start:
Soka University in Aliso Viejo, CA
Beautiful (in a well-groomed, sparse way), peaceful, sprawling campus. Average class size: 12 students. Popular major: Peace Studies. Definitely not the place for students looking for a big, bustling uni (only sports teams are swimming, diving, track, xc, soccer and golf). Backs up to a large nature park with many miles of hiking trails. Twenty minute drive to beautiful Laguna Beach. (I'd never choose this one myself, but thought I'd mention it for the solitude-seeking introverts out there!)
http://www.soka.edu/about_soka/default.aspx
57 replies I'll start:
Soka University in Aliso Viejo, CA
Beautiful (in a well-groomed, sparse way), peaceful, sprawling campus. Average class size: 12 students. Popular major: Peace Studies. Definitely not the place for students looking for a big, bustling uni (only sports teams are swimming, diving, track, xc, soccer and golf). Backs up to a large nature park with many miles of hiking trails. Twenty minute drive to beautiful Laguna Beach. (I'd never choose this one myself, but thought I'd mention it for the solitude-seeking introverts out there!)
http://www.soka.edu/about_soka/default.aspx
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Replies to: Your vote for "Most Underappreciated" lesser known colleges?
http://www.soka.edu/academics/academic-faqs.aspx says that "There is only one major at Soka University of America, a BA in Liberal Arts with concentrations in Environmental Studies, Humanities, International Studies or Social and Behavioral Sciences."
Endowment: $ 1.01 billion
Enrollment: 419
Endowment per student: $2.4 million
Net price (after financial aid): $12,686
Princeton University stats, for comparison:
Endowment: $ 22.2 billion
Enrollment: 8,181
Endowment per student: $2.7 million
Net price (after financial aid): $17,732
The location is its problem, I am sure.
Agnes Scott--small, gorgeous, cross reg with Emory, great mascot, astrophysics for women.
Sweet Briar -- equestrian sports, gorgeous, ABET-accredited engineering for women, safety school for all
Mills -- Just lowered tuition to $28K, cross reg with Berkeley
Sewanee--13,000 acre campus, Harry Potter robes
Marlboro -- tiny, has a big scholarship available one for each of the 50 states
Centre -- amazing LAC with arts glass blowing
Alfred University's Glass Engineering program -- maybe the only one in the country -- https://engineering.alfred.edu/undergrad/ges/
SUNY's Nanotechnology undergrad program -- https://sunypoly.edu/research/albany-nanotech-complex.html
Unity College, in Maine--LAC with an environmental thrust -- https://www.unity.edu/
Green Mountain College -- has a first in sustainability full scholarship -- http://www.greenmtn.edu/sustainabilityscholarship/
CUNY--a university system called The Harvard of the Proletariat for a reason. It's amazing how many Nobel Prize winners, fashion designers, Pullitzer winning authors and writers, etc. have come out of that university system--and so cheap!
SUNY FIT--one of the top fashion schools in the world, at rock bottom prices, located in the heart of one of the world's fashion capitals.
@Lindagaf our neighbor's son graduated from Whitman and loved it. p.s. he's a professional Ultimate Frisbee player now. :-)
Re: Soka, I just figured I'd mention it because it seems to be off the radar for a lot of people. I'd say, of U.S. colleges, it's the closest to a Zen !
Dickinson in PA, terrific, beautiful LAC
Amazing STEM program, tight-knit student body, brilliant professors, all in beautiful Southern California. Its curriculum is rigorous, but rewarding. Boasts one of the best job placement rates out of any college in the US, and its grads have the highest average starting salary. A true gem.
Also Union in NY. Not well known outside the it's region. Engineering school as well as liberal arts.
Adding St Olaf College in Minnesota, less than an hour south of Minneapolis - very strong music and choral programs, well integrated into a liberal arts setting. Excellent programs in math and the sciences as well.
Excellent programs in environmental studies.