<p>I’m sorry to say this but USF is a terrible, terrible school. I did my undergrad there and am doing my master’s at UF. I took two grad courses while at USF and then took them again at UF. The difference in academic quality was like night and day. When I graduated from USF, there was no career help whatsoever. The career fair was a joke and the career center barely functioned. Within 1 month of starting my Master’s at UF I already had 6 on-campus interviews lined up for an internship. I’m assuming going to FSU would be much more similiar to UF than USF so I’d say FSU hands down.</p>
<p>I also worked at a research institute at USF for a few years. The research that comes out of there is fluff. The only reason some say it has “good research” is because they spend a s***load of money developing programs that look good on paper but never really produce anything.</p>
<p>Tampa…sucks. You have to drive everywhere, and by drive i mean spend at least 20 minutes getting to anywhere worth going. I would say choosing USF because Tampa is a “big city” would be pointless. It feels more like a large spread out town than a big city. Case in point: check out downtown at any other time than rush hour and it’s empty.</p>