Anonymous
10/31/2025 20:59
Subject: Commuter schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:UConn has a rep for being a suitcase school in the northeast.
Small state
Storrs is the middle of nowhere and a suitcase school is something different than a commuter school
Exactly. Plenty of students live on campus.
The satellite campuses and CT state universities attract a lot of commuters though.
Anonymous
10/31/2025 20:44
Subject: Commuter schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:UConn has a rep for being a suitcase school in the northeast.
Small state
Storrs is the middle of nowhere and a suitcase school is something different than a commuter school
Anonymous
10/31/2025 15:00
Subject: Commuter schools
How about UMD with some many MCPS kids attending!!
Anonymous
10/31/2025 13:04
Subject: Commuter schools
Anonymous wrote:UConn has a rep for being a suitcase school in the northeast.
Small state
Anonymous
10/30/2025 22:32
Subject: Commuter schools
Anonymous wrote:Stony Brook. Used to be at least.
CUNY, Baruch
St. John's
Agreed on Stony Brook. It is much less than it used to be but it has really moved up in the world and if it wants to keep doing so it needs to continue shedding that reputation. I know people in metro-NYC who stay away from it because they think it is a commuter school. Whether it really is or not.
Temple.
Lots of schools in NJ.
Georgia State
Anonymous
10/30/2025 21:46
Subject: Commuter schools
Stony Brook. Used to be at least.
CUNY, Baruch
St. John's
CUNY, Baruch
St. John's
Anonymous
10/30/2025 21:43
Subject: Commuter schools
Georgia State
CUNY schools
Temple
CUNY schools
Temple
Anonymous
10/30/2025 21:39
Subject: Commuter schools
UConn has a rep for being a suitcase school in the northeast.
Anonymous
10/30/2025 20:52
Subject: Commuter schools
Anonymous wrote:GMU
UMBC
Have a commuter(ish) vibe.
That was true 20 years ago, but not now.
As an example, GMU requires all freshmen to live in in campus dorms. Many students live on campus all 4 years. Even when zliving off campus, most usually it is an apartment complex very near GMU campus with a mostly student population.
Anonymous
10/30/2025 14:47
Subject: Commuter schools
The only people who need to worry about the downside of commuter schools are people who need dorms to find friends.
Commuter students who do not need to work jobs after class and who have access to transportation can participate in ECs. Grade the schools by their ECs then.
I agree with the comment above about U of M Dearborn. Many of those kids are saving up to transfer to Ann Arbor. I also got a strong vibe from my campus tour that it is a place where really smart Muslim girls major in STEM while living at home. My assumption is that their parents desire that. U of M Dearborn has a nice campus, they have a student government, they offer some grad degrees, they have engineering project teams...but no dorms. Only an apartment complex for students down the street. It would be hard to live there without a car. But it's a solid regional option. I actually met a UMBC grad who was getting an Engineering Master's there because he wanted to go into the auto industry. It's in the same town as Ford's headquarters.
Commuter students who do not need to work jobs after class and who have access to transportation can participate in ECs. Grade the schools by their ECs then.
I agree with the comment above about U of M Dearborn. Many of those kids are saving up to transfer to Ann Arbor. I also got a strong vibe from my campus tour that it is a place where really smart Muslim girls major in STEM while living at home. My assumption is that their parents desire that. U of M Dearborn has a nice campus, they have a student government, they offer some grad degrees, they have engineering project teams...but no dorms. Only an apartment complex for students down the street. It would be hard to live there without a car. But it's a solid regional option. I actually met a UMBC grad who was getting an Engineering Master's there because he wanted to go into the auto industry. It's in the same town as Ford's headquarters.
Anonymous
10/30/2025 14:34
Subject: Commuter schools
Anonymous wrote:GMU
UMBC
Have a commuter(ish) vibe.
No. GMU hasn’t been a commuter school 2011, when the Carnegie Foundation reclassified it as “primarily residential”. Indeed, all freshman are required to live on campus in one of the 6,600 rooms available. My kid lived all four years in the dorms there . https://www.insidenova.com/news/fairfax/changes-at-gmu-lead-to-designation-as-primarily-residential-institution/article_5acea37e-98d7-5091-9796-90f3ac439160.html
Anonymous
10/30/2025 14:27
Subject: Commuter schools
Anonymous wrote:Georgia Southern
Wayne State
U Mass-Boston
U Illinois- Chicago
U-M Dearborn probably more so.