You will get wonderful clinical experiences with Altoona. Newer sim lab and next to a major hospital (bigger than Mount Nittany Medical Center). Best yet, you will be in smaller classes and will have a better shot at getting through those tough nursing courses. My daughter is struggling in the pathophysiology course this semester at UP. She told me Altoona offers a study group for patho (nursing weed out course) and she’s actually toying with the idea of driving down to Altoona.