Michigan vs UCLA vs Florida vs USC

beyphy
Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:07:27 +0000

Lots to be taken into consideration here:

weather: Do you want sunshine or ‘seasons’?
location: Big city or collegetown?

UCLA has a very nice area and is in one of the most affluent areas of Los Angeles. USC’s area is more urban and is currently undergoing gentrification. The interesting thing about USC is that the Expo line will open up in full in 2015, making a larger portion of the city easily accessible to USC students (in term of living and visiting) but you’d have to tough it out for at least a year until this became available.

If you’re OOS, you’ll likely be paying high OOS tuition. It might be worth considering going to USC if they give you a nice enough scholarship.

As far as Michigan is concerned, it’s a fine public university with good programs particularly in engineering and business. l don’t know enough about UF to comment on it.

All of the universities except for UF are academic peers. Your decision should be determined largely on fit and affordability. (just because you can afford something doesn’t mean you should spend thousands of dollars more if you can afford not to.)