Kendall
04-28-2009, 06:47 PM
Here are random thoughts about our visits.
We visited Kansas State University and the University of Tulsa
K-State has a student count of 23,000 in a town of 50,000. The campus seemed fairly compact. First shuttle bus driver greeted every person that entered. All staff, faculty that saw us were very friendly and helpful. This school has a reputation of being small campus friendly and taking care of students more like a small campus would and better than many of the smaller schools in the area. Many students I passed would smile or say hello. Great engineering program. A senior EE student showed us around the engineering buildings and labs. We did not allow enough time to visit and plan to go back.
University of Tulsa. 4000 students in a town of around 500,000 (?)Very rich feel as you enter campus and the admissions building. Students ambassadors gave the campus tour and others were assigned to eating with us in the student dining hall. They have chosen them well, and dressed them alike:). They looked very professional and gave polished yet genuine sounding info on the tour. TU has higher academic standards. I think the average ACT is 28. I think the campus area was as large as K-State! It looks nice, but walking to classes would take longer than I would have thought at a small school. We had a tour of the mechanical engineering labs by an assistant professor. We had an hour with this professor and it went fast. He was great and definitely the most influential part of visiting TU. I like the size of the engineering department and the prof. emphasized that a lot of undergraduates get to do research and classes are taught by professors. Half of the engineering students are not American. The engineering prof said that a lot(?) of the humanities classes use more primary materials vs. textbook. He volunteered this info(he used to be a TU student). I tried to learn a little more about this from the admissions counselor but she didn’t seem to know. A mom with a child at Oklahoma State and another at Tulsa said that TU is the more liberal of the two. When I walked by myself around campus and looked at each student as the passed, not one even looked in my direction, but maybe a different day might have given different results. Free ride scholarship to about 70 National Merit Finalists each year. They enroll about 250 NMF each year.
We visited Kansas State University and the University of Tulsa
K-State has a student count of 23,000 in a town of 50,000. The campus seemed fairly compact. First shuttle bus driver greeted every person that entered. All staff, faculty that saw us were very friendly and helpful. This school has a reputation of being small campus friendly and taking care of students more like a small campus would and better than many of the smaller schools in the area. Many students I passed would smile or say hello. Great engineering program. A senior EE student showed us around the engineering buildings and labs. We did not allow enough time to visit and plan to go back.
University of Tulsa. 4000 students in a town of around 500,000 (?)Very rich feel as you enter campus and the admissions building. Students ambassadors gave the campus tour and others were assigned to eating with us in the student dining hall. They have chosen them well, and dressed them alike:). They looked very professional and gave polished yet genuine sounding info on the tour. TU has higher academic standards. I think the average ACT is 28. I think the campus area was as large as K-State! It looks nice, but walking to classes would take longer than I would have thought at a small school. We had a tour of the mechanical engineering labs by an assistant professor. We had an hour with this professor and it went fast. He was great and definitely the most influential part of visiting TU. I like the size of the engineering department and the prof. emphasized that a lot of undergraduates get to do research and classes are taught by professors. Half of the engineering students are not American. The engineering prof said that a lot(?) of the humanities classes use more primary materials vs. textbook. He volunteered this info(he used to be a TU student). I tried to learn a little more about this from the admissions counselor but she didn’t seem to know. A mom with a child at Oklahoma State and another at Tulsa said that TU is the more liberal of the two. When I walked by myself around campus and looked at each student as the passed, not one even looked in my direction, but maybe a different day might have given different results. Free ride scholarship to about 70 National Merit Finalists each year. They enroll about 250 NMF each year.