<p>I am currently at Univ of Missouri and was majoring in finance. After taking some business classes, I have decided to change majors. I feel that EE may be a better choice for me. Unfortunately, the next semester is going to be on my nickel while I get my grades up. I have a couple options at this point:
- Stay here at Mizzou and take out a loan for tuition (about $3,700) and get an apartment
- Go to a small school in Louisiana, McNeese State, where I can get in-state tuition (about $1,800) plus apartment</p>
<p>Overall, the cost difference is not much, but I feel the difference in education quality is significant. Unfortunately, I have no guarantee that my parents will start paying for school again after next semester, so I may be taking out more loans. Most likely though, if I pay for class myself for a semester, work hard, and get a good GPA, then I can convince my parents to continue paying.</p>
<p>Any suggestions would be appreciated.</p>
<p>You could knock out some general ed courses at the in-state school for cheap and then go back to Mizzou for your in-major classes, whatever those might be.</p>
<p>Most of my gen ed classes are already done. I actually transferred here to Mizzou. I’m paying in-state here it’s just a bit more expensive than school in Louisiana. I’ll most likely just stay here. I’m not sure about the quality of the EE program at McNeese…</p>
<p>I’d definitely wouldn’t transfer, the price difference is minimal. If you need to save money and get a good gpa, take 12/13 credit hours. This lets you save money, and concentrate on harder classes, such as the calc/diff eq sequence(I assume since you changed majors you are going into math 1500), the university physics sequence or chem 1320.</p>
<p>Don’t transfer. EE favors large schools. With size, you get variety. How can you know what you want to do (DSP, communications, solid state, electromagnetics, comp architecture, etc.) when you have little exposure to the different areas because your small school doesn’t have many courses to offer? I checked McNeese course offerings - the EE offerings don’t cover much more than circuits and a little programming. This is simply not good enough.</p>