<p>Syracuse’s Newhouse School is a stand alone “college” within the University and offers a number of majors within that School; ND’s FTT is a single department with a far more limited course offering. </p>
<p>We know several students who have gone through Newhouse and have landed quite well career-wise. Of course, many students do change their major and interests once they get to college, so a student who has vague ideas about what communications could involve may well change once they get there. At Syracuse, once you leave Newhouse, the rest of the school is certainly reputable but lacks the cachet of Newhouse. At ND, a student who realized they don’t really want to do FTT would have a broader base of strengths across the institution to move into.</p>
<p>We know a number of ND students, and it is no slouch when it comes to party schools. There is certainly a work hard play hard ethic among a lot of students. There are plenty of options for students choosing not to “partake” at ND, as I assume there would be at Syracuse. </p>