UMass Amherst versus URI

sapphire1971
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:21:54 +0000

My son has been accepted to UMass Amherst in the Natural Sciences Exploratory track in place of the engineering major he applied to. he has also been accepted to the University of Rhode Island in the Chemical Engineering major and their honors program. URI is also offering him a merit scholarship that would bring the out of state tuition costs close to what he’d receive for in state tuition at UMass. He’s leaning towards URI because he’s in the major of his choice but i know UMass Amherst is perceived to be the better school between the two. He’s concerned of taking the risk at UMass and trying to apply to the engineering school once on campus and not being able to get in versus going to a school he already knows he’s in hte major of choice. Will he receive just as good of an education at URI?