URochester Vs Stony Brook CS

WhrlingColleges
Sat, 11 Apr 2020 17:00:05 +0000

URochester is much better. It has solid respect in international academic circles and attracts a higher quality student body. Academically average applicants can still get into Stony Brook, but Rochester is considerably more picky, attracting many more students from the top of their high school classes. URoch has a real campus, quite pretty, on a river. Stony Brook is a group of cellblock style towers in a boring suburb. The city of Rochester itself is also an up-and-coming tech hub and it’s affordable. The area around Stony Brook offers a few positives in terms of quality of life, and yet housing is untouchably expensive for young people. I would also be concerned about the high percentage of Long Islanders at Stony Brook. U Rochester is so much more diverse in terms of geographic composition of the student body. URoch will likely cost a lot more, but worth it IMO, especially since tuition is not a factor for you.