About to place my FIFTH child in a college program next Fall.
We are looking very seriously at Grove City (son already accepted at a Penn State branch campus, and will soon learn if he is accepted into their Honors College. He wants to major in Software Engineering).
We have had our kids attend a state school (Pitt); a small Catholic University (Seton Hill); and a small Liberal Arts College (Marietta of Ohio—Pertroleum/Natural Gas Program). We have found smaller “specialty” programs (like the Petro) have smaller classes; more intense work loads and placement offices (Seton Hill included) that make finding internships/interviews their mission. Bigger was more affordable, but also had lecture hall physics and not a lot of job finding support.
RE: We are looking very seriously at Grove City (son already accepted at a Penn State branch campus, and will soon learn if he is accepted into their Honors College. He wants to major in Software Engineering).
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Excellent choice either way. Grove City College has an excellent STEM program and many companies actually go there every year to recruit.
In fact, many of their Computer Science grads go on to graduate school at nearby Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh is just an hour away ).
They had the largest on campus career fair yet with over 160 companies, businesses, graduate schools and other organizations connecting with 1,200 students looking for work, internships or a place to continue their education.
My daughter is an alumni of their business school and is now working as a Financial Analyst for Edelman, the world’s largest PR company.
My daughter received letters from Harvard and Princeton, and was “recruited” by USNA, but she chose Grove City instead. It is a great Christian-Conservative environment and she really enjoyed it and met our SIL there. Paul Kengor is one of the professors there and is often a guest of FOX news.
I have a daughter at GCC right now and a son soon to join her next September. It is an excellent school.