Anonymous wrote:USC ranks #1 for International Business.Georgetown is #6. USC will cost me $20K per year. Georgetown upwards of $50K. Why would I pay $30K more?

You don't have to live in Columbia.

USC ranks #1 for International Business.Georgetown is #6. USC will cost me $20K per year. Georgetown upwards of $50K. Why would I pay $30K more?

Anonymous wrote:OP: if USC's engineering school is ABET accredited and the tuition is not ridiculous, AND your DC wants to study engineering, then go for it. Engineers can find a job almost anywhere without the prestige bias that's so prevalent on DCUM.

Prestige matters a little bit. Just not as much as Law and Business.

It does seem that the more immediately practical your major (Engineering, CS, Medicine) the less prestige matters. A degree in any of those fields, even from an average school, is valuable.

OP: if USC's engineering school is ABET accredited and the tuition is not ridiculous, AND your DC wants to study engineering, then go for it. Engineers can find a job almost anywhere without the prestige bias that's so prevalent on DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:You wouldn't send a kid to USC at all for any program? They are top ranked in many of their business school programs, nice campus. Lots of aid.

I personally wouldn't, no. Not knowing my kids, and not knowing Columbia, and a huge number of USC grads. But that's a YMMV thing. You're right it does well academically in some areas.

I would not send any kid there for engineering. In the South, I would send a kid NC State, Clemson, GA Tech (where OPs kid won't get in if they were nixed by VT), Vanderbilt, Auburn, maybe Wake for biomedical only, maybe LsU-- and I am probably missing a couple.

Wake has an engineering school?

Clemson has the center for automotive engineering.

Clemson has the engineering school in SC. Don't send your kid to USC engineering.

Weird. Not even sure what that's supposed to mean.

Anonymous wrote:What's YMMV?

Your Mileage May Vary

What's YMMV?

Anonymous wrote:You wouldn't send a kid to USC at all for any program? They are top ranked in many of their business school programs, nice campus. Lots of aid.

I personally wouldn't, no. Not knowing my kids, and not knowing Columbia, and a huge number of USC grads. But that's a YMMV thing. You're right it does well academically in some areas.

I would not send any kid there for engineering. In the South, I would send a kid NC State, Clemson, GA Tech (where OPs kid won't get in if they were nixed by VT), Vanderbilt, Auburn, maybe Wake for biomedical only, maybe LsU-- and I am probably missing a couple.

You wouldn't send a kid to USC at all for any program? They are top ranked in many of their business school programs, nice campus. Lots of aid.

I lived in SC for a while. Clemson is the decent state engineering school (although still not a top 50), not USC, which does not crack the top 100 in engineering programs. It is about in par with VCU engineering.

Plus, there are nice parts of SC (Hilton Head, Charleston, Greenville). Columbia is just not-- especially the area where USC is. Certainly your kid can get in to a better engineering school if he wants to be in the south.

I wouldn't send a kid to USC at all. And certainly not for engineering.

They have one? It's not very well know for sure.

Can anyone tell me about University of South Carolina'engineering school? Son got accepted but I don't know anything about the program. It's either engineering there or business in a different school due to the fact he didn't get into va tech engineering. Only business. He is still undecided as to what he would like to major in.