Low-cost [<$30k] (with merit?) schools with engineering [MA resident, 3.91, 1500, not NMSF]

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@MAmomto4 I saw your question on the UMass thread and recalled that it was you that had started this thread. Perhaps late for you, but I had created a thread for my S22 which may be of interest to those considering Industrial Engineering.

College for a kid interested in statistics and international relations

My S22 currently is interested in statistics/actuarial science and international relations. He doesn’t know if he wants to do research in either. As of now, he prefers an urban or suburban campus. We are in MA and he has attended programs at MIT and Harvard. We have seen a number of LACs in the northeast and in the mid-Atlantic (including VA) parts of the US, but he is shying away from colleges in locations that are difficult to get to. He would prefer a school with 5,000-10,000 undergrads, but there are not many with a statistics major. He does not want to do an IR major, but would consider a minor. He is looking at schools as far west as MN and as far south as FL. TX is borderline. Stats-wise, he is in the top 10%-20% of his quite competitive public school, which does not rank. There are about 450 students in his grade. At the end of junior, UW GPA is expected to be ~3.8, and W GPA, ~4.2. He will complete six AP courses by senior year (US History, Biology, Statistics, Computer Scie…