UNT vs UTA vs UTDallas (Arlington: credit, house, transfer)

[SepiaZelda]

You might want to consider taking some classes at a community college before you transfer to a 4 year. That way, you will be in state by the time you need to pay higher tuition. Richland College just won the Baldridge award and it is the only CC to have ever done so. I've also heard they have the most PhDs of any CC in the country. I know Richland is known as the little Harvard on the hill in Dallas. It's really an excellent school. And if you want to take philosophy, I can recommend a wonderful professor.

[krazymack]

Originally Posted by SepiaZelda

You might want to consider taking some classes at a community college before you transfer to a 4 year. That way, you will be in state by the time you need to pay higher tuition. Richland College just won the Baldridge award and it is the only CC to have ever done so. I've also heard they have the most PhDs of any CC in the country. I know Richland is known as the little Harvard on the hill in Dallas. It's really an excellent school. And if you want to take philosophy, I can recommend a wonderful professor.

Thank you so much for pointing out the info on Richland College SepiaZelda and bringing up the good suggestion of enrolling into community college for the affordability prior to in-state residency. I will look into Richland. Thank you so much for your help.

[CTR36]

UTD is an EXCELLENT school! I went there Evertime I go into an interiview and they read on my resume where I graduated from they say "Oh impressive, that is a good school". Needless to say it was the best 3 years of my life. And I did use DART once in a while it was very convenient. My daughter is planning on going there too

[SepiaZelda]

Originally Posted by krazymack

Thank you so much for pointing out the info on Richland College SepiaZelda and bringing up the good suggestion of enrolling into community college for the affordability prior to in-state residency. I will look into Richland. Thank you so much for your help.

You're very welcome. :> And if you need a philosophy class, take the one by L. McQuillan. Tell her you heard about it here.

[jabbit]

Originally Posted by momof2dfw

Fry St is gone now (arson the other night but it was to be demolished anyway ).

fry street is not gone. arson burned down the tomato building only... not the whole street. yes the tomato was slated to be demolished the next day. part of the fry street area (certain biz) were demolished to make way for even more retail biz, an art gallery, a music pavillon type thing and a fry street memorial wall.... at least thats what the plans say. fry street isnt gone its just changing.
just like the drag in austin evolved (guadalupe street) fry street will too.
sure some folks dont like it... and others welcome it but its not gone.

i miss the tomato and texas jive. tomato is opening up in the square by the way... next to the jupiter house. and texas jive is now going to be called "the boiler room" and its opening on the square pretty soon as well... across from wells fargo in the basement of a new restaraunt/bar deal called the abby inn i believe.

[Philip T]

Krazymack, the state was getting a little (a lot) intolerant a few years ago with the professional-students-for-life, and as I recall cutoff the state money for folks who doing undergrad classes for life. I recall that the cutoff was something like 170 undergrad hours, and how the individual schools handled it was up to them.

Grad schools are more tolerant, but of course they take more money from the students, but also get higher funding from the state.

Since you mentioned medical fields, there is also a state school missing from your list -- UT Health Science. It is near downtown Dallas. Top notch operation, btw.

Overall, to get the best results, I would suggest a little focus on what you would like to learn, do, etc. -- as the faculty varies widely by school. And I do not mean in qualitative terms such as good, better, or best, but rather specializations. If you know what you want to do, you can choose by finding faculty members that have those interests, as well.

[BSL63087]

I would say UTDallas would be the best for you. Unless you have a car, UNT or UTA will be hard to get around unless you get rides from people and such.

[newinfo]

I see Denton buses in Dallas everyday.

[artsyguy]

UTD- Extremely nice campus. Nice people and very relaxed. Overall really good so far.

UNT - Very liberal. Good professors. Ugly campus. Horrible traffic and extremely weird people.

[ocean2026]

UNT is rapidly growing and improving - compare the campus to Arlington. At North Texas you are at the main university not a neglected branch school catering to Austin.

US News and WR is not a good source - they were exposed by the Wall St Journal and others in the way they rank. Chronicle of Higher Ed would be better.