<p>need advice. my daughter must choos in the next week between ursinus and temple. she wants to major in communications. she loves th atmosphere of ursinus but temple has a wonderful communications department. she has met with ursinus communications and she was impressed but being a liberal arts program will not be a specific in thier programs. ursinus will coat 12,000 more over the four years. she will have alot of debt so it is important that she is employable after school. she is very quiet and i am concerned that althought temple may have a stronger program the atmosphere at ursinus would be better for her. anyone have any info that could help</p>
<p>Which school would your daughter prefer if she wasn’t going to major in communications?</p>
<p>I ask because I think that a communications major may not be a good fit for a very quiet person. If your daughter decides to change her major somewhere along the way, which college would she rather be attending?</p>
<p>Marian, everybody who is questioning which of several schools needs to read your reply. With majors such as communication, journalism, etc., which may be the highlight at certain schools, one has to be careful about choosing. Since students change their majors an average of three times while in college, only those really sure of their majors should go to a school just because of that major, unless they would be happy at that school anyway. When my daughter was deciding between University of Missouri Columbia and Newhouse at Syracuse, she realized that if she decided against journalism, she’d be happier at Syracuse than Missouri, which she would only want to go to for journalism. Both offered similar incentives.</p>
<p>joe, Temple does not feel as large as the number of students here. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.</p>
<p>It’s just making me nervous thinking about a communications major having lots of debt. This is not a kid who will make big bucks right out of college. Is their a much lower debt choice?</p>