<p>would you commute/take a shuttle to the smaller, secondary campus? I’m having a hard time imagining this 25 minute commute.</p>
<p>I think I would want to be on a college campus where my major was offered.</p>
<p>^
This, unless there’s a very close alternative to your major at the main campus that you would be happy to major in instead.</p>
<p>agree, try to stay on the main campus- what major where you thinking of?</p>
<p>Business. I have never heard of moving business off a main campus and putting it downtown to be closer to “businesses”. It sounds like a program that may be appealing to older adults that are already working, as opposed to freshly minted 18 yr. olds.</p>
<p>Are you talking about a situation where one university occupies two campuses (e.g. a “North” and “South” campus), where you might be living on one and taking classes at the other? That sounds inconvenient, but ultimately manageable. </p>
<p>Or are you talking two different universities (e.g. separate branches of a state public system) that are located in the same region? That sounds much harder.</p>
<p>Edit: missed the latest post, which seems to imply the first case. Maybe you should look further into the program? Perhaps it was never focused much on undergrads at all…</p>
<p>Oh, sorry. This is one university, with a main campus and two smaller campuses 20 and 25 minutes away. The dorms are at the main campus and a shuttle bus runs all day/night.</p>
<p>Both Loyola and DePaul in Chicago have campuses north of downtown (in Rogers Park and Lincoln Park, respectively) with business programs at their downtown locations. There is good public transportation available; I don’t know if there are shuttles. It takes a certain amount of planning to make it doable, such as clustering classes at each location on certain days, etc., but I know a lot of students at those schools and none have ever seemed to have a problem with it. However, it’s certainly not the right thing for all students.</p>
<p>I also am thinking that SUNY/Albany has its public policy program in downtown Albany for most of the classes—I remember that as being one reason my son decided not to go there.</p>
<p>My roommate for my first two years was a technical theater major. Our freshman year the fine arts department moved into their own separate campus about 2 miles away from the main campus. They had shuttles that ran most of the day back and forth…</p>
<p>piggybacking on boysx3’s comments - my D went to one of those Chicago schools where the business school was downtown and the main campus was 25 minutes away. She was an accounting major there. In her case, the two-campus structure was rarely an issue. All her classes were on the main campus freshman year, and over time, more and more classes were held downtown in the Loop; although there were some non-traditional students in her classes the vast majority were traditional students like her.</p>
<p>Again - it was never an issue. The commute from one campus to another was never more than 20-25 minutes by el or bus. I think the college-business relationship was actually pretty strong: there were frequent guest lecturers from downtown businesses and organizations and an occasional “field trip.” (ooohhh… accounting field trips.) Then again, we’re talking about Chicago, so there are a LOT of business concentrated in a small area.</p>
<p>So it works at some colleges and for some students. Then again, DePaul and Loyola aren’t your typical ivy-covered campus experiences, so it may be that the kind of student who is drawn to this type of program has different expectations and wants than other kinds of students. YMMV.</p>
<p>toledo,
what kind of program is your student considering? has your student already chosen a school?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about this kind of commute. Most students will arrange their courses so that they don’t have to take that trip every single day of the week (for example, MWF classes at Campus A, and TuTh classes at Campus B), or if there are residences on both campuses, they will elect to live where more of their classes meet. Those that do end up travelling back and forth umpteen times a day get very good at sleeping on the bus.</p>
<p>My son is leaning towards business, which is why I’m concerned about the new business building being downtown. He has not chosen a school. I’m just wondering if this should be a factor for “eliminating” a school. It sounds like it works fine for some people, so I’ll leave it up to him.</p>
<p>If he’s serious about it perhaps you could take the course catalog and figure out how many classes would actually be on the downtown campus and how many would be near his dorm for freshman year. It’s entirely possible he would spend the majority of his time freshman year and maybe even some of sophomore year on the main campus. It’s similar even in Ann Arbor where kids are up on North Campus and take the bus down to Central etc.</p>
<p>S1’s university built a new “engineering campus” that is apart from the main campus. The main campus has been there since 1887 and was land locked so the univ. purchased land a few miles away for the new state of the art engineering campus. There is a university bus system that goes back and forth between campuses.</p>
<p>At S2’s university, the new Health Sciences building was built next to the city’s hospital which is prob. five miles from the campus.</p>
<p>A few other examples:</p>
<p>When New York University and Polytechnic Institute complete their merger, the combined New York University will have campus buildings in different parts of New York.</p>
<p>Florida State University and Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University share a College of Engineering whose campus is a short commute from either university’s main campus.</p>
<p>Rutgers has 4 campuses in New Bruswick with a 25+ min bus ride between the two farthest. In her first semester, D1 has classes on 3 of the 4 campuses. Some kids like the dorms on campuses that are not their residential campus. They will figure it out.</p>