Another College Thread

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Not in HS, I just got my AA at Leeward Community College (in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii) w/ a 3.1 GPA.  Looking for a good 4-year college to transfer to so I can major in Mathetmatics with a minor/second major in Computer Science.  I already have some idea of where I want to go:

1) Relatively urban setting.  I don't particularly care how big the town/city is so long as it's at least few hundred thousand people.  I've lived in the boonies for basically the last 10 years, it's time for a change of scene.

2) State university.  For my situation (poor), private universities are not worth the increased cost.

3) Nothing in California or Hawaii.  University of Hawaii has a lousy mathematics department, and their programming-oriented Math classes are still using Fortran.  I have lots of reasons for not going to California, not all of which I'm inclined to share.  Just don't recommend universities in California.

4) No Big Ten conference schools other than the University of Iowa, and no schools in the state of Iowa other than the University of Iowa.  My family has been going to UofI for 3 generations, and the only universally binding force in my extended family is Hawkeye Football.  I would like to avoid the awkwardness associated with cheering on a rival school from the point of view of either my family or my classmates.  I know this rules out a lot of really good schools like Northwestern and Penn State, but Iowa is a pretty damn good school, too, so I figure I'm not missing much.

5) 4-year programs in both Mathematics and Computer Science.  Even if I don't double major, I want to take Math classes more applicable to Computer Science.  If I go to a school that offers programs in both, then they're more likely to have those kinds of math classes.

I've managed to do a little searching on my own.  I put all of the above information into an unbiased .gov website and got back the following school recommendations:

Oregon State University
Portland State University
Rhode Island College
Southern Connecticut State University
Temple University
Towson University
University of Iowa
University of Oregon
University of Pittsburgh
University of Southern Maine
University of Vermont
University of Washington
Western Connecticut State University
Western Washington University
Worcester State University

...now I'm looking for some biased information, and also for any schools the .gov website may have missed.  I went to the websites for all the above colleges and mostly got the same generic "come to our school" BS, for all that's worth, and none of them particularly flaunted their technology departments.

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Well the city isn't as big as you had requested but my home town University of Louisiana at Lafayette has a top notch curriculum. I haven't checked in years but their comp. sci. program was among the best in the nation and they have always had a strong math program, mostly due to the sheer number of engineering and science students they go through. University is most famous for Cajunbot, a jeep that has consistently done pretty well for the DARPA self driving car competition. We also have the LITEcenter, it is best described as 3d CAD system and it may even be classified as a super computer but i'm not certain.

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... and Penn State doesn't have quite as many Chicks as som'a them other schools  .

Degree > as little Debt as possible > Fancy school.

Most lucrative college degrees
http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/highest_starting_salaries/index.htm

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I don't care how many girls there are on a campus, all it takes to be happy is one.

I have my two-year with no debt.  I'll likely have to take out loans for my four-year, but it will still wind up being substantially less debt than the average college grad.

Oh, and I'll be getting a Masters degree in Mathematics.  That list equates to chump change compared to what I can potentially make.

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Wait ... "Hawaii" ... aren't you gonna like Die when winter comes around ?!
 

Temple = Philly connections.
The two Conn schools ~= New York City connections.

Pitt is known for it's medical school.
If you can fit in some Neurobiology as additional Singularity prep ... well PhaeXY would commend it.

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LMAO

No, I'll be fine.  I'm originally from Nebraska, and am constantly making fun of my friends for being "cold" when the temperature is in the 70's.  There's actually a running gag going on currently where I point out that one of said friends is constantly wearing a scarf.

As for the other sciences, I'm not terribly interested.  I wouldn't mind doing some work with GMo foods, biofuels, or a few other similar projects, but I'm not interested enough in them to dedicate 4 years to getting a degree in that field.