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What are some of the more popular college choices for people in South Jersey?
In north Jersey, Rutgers, various SUNY, schools in Boston like BU are usually popular choices if you are not too special.
Are out of state unis that are close by like UDelaware, or PSU, or Maryland popular choices ?
Camden County College is the best community college in the area. It is now affiliated with Rutgers and you can get a bachelors degree from there (Blackwood). It is a satellite campus of Rutgers.
Most Universities are Rowan and Rutgers Camden. Other than that people head to the Philly schools. I hate jersey so I traveled 8 hours away to upstate NY.
Rutgers Camden, Rowan, and Stockton are the most notable in South Jersey proper. TCNJ is an excellent liberal arts college in Central Jersey that gets a mix of North, Central, and South Jerseyites.
Across the river, there's a large NJ contingent at Temple.
Depends where in SJ they're from IMO. In my experience most people didn't want to stay "too close" to home so I only knew a couple people that went to Rowan. However Rutgers New Brunswick, TCNJ, Stockton, and Monmouth were pretty popular in NJ as well as University of Delaware and the Philly schools.
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Also, there is a sizeable evangelical christian population in South Jersey. Bob Jones in Greenville, SC has been popular with them as long as I can remember.
Gloucester County College has now changed their name to Rowan college, more closely connecting it to Rowan. Not sure if there is a more streamlined plan to move from the college to the university, or if its a marketing ploy.
Out of state becomes ridiculously expensive. My daughter was accepted into Temple and the first two years of out of state tuition plus board was $32,000 a year.
After 2 years she decided she wanted to be a nurse and came back home to go to Camden County.
She was also originally accepted at Drexel for Hospitality degree. No lie... the sent a complete itemized estimated cost that accounted for everything and it worked out to $62,000 a year, or a quarter of a million for a 4 yr degree to work in a hotel. (more reasons why she switched to nursing)
Rutgers, Drexel, Temple, UDel, Maryland, Penn State (in no particular order).
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