Small college or large university?

[Cognizant]

If you plan on going to college, would you rather your undergrad be at a very small private school (>1500 students, no significant dedicated campus), smaller school (1500-10,000 students), moderately sized school with on campus activity (10,000-30,000), or large school (30,000-50,000+)?

If you're going to junior college, I'm more curious to know what you'd want to attend after transferring (if you are), as most community colleges run on the smaller side to begin with.

Personally, I'd want to be at a moderately sized school. There's a few private art schools I was thinking about applying to, but I honestly want my last 2 years of my undergrad to have some activity so I could get a feel for what college life is like on a bustling campus as opposed to just commuting to a small campus for the day and then leaving,

[Hideous]

Moderately sized school :)

[HUSTLEMAN]

I would say medium sized college b/c its the best of both worlds. It wouldn't be so large so that I would feel lost in the shuffle, but not so small you'll miss out on the college experiance

[unknownuser]

The CC I go to is medium-ish, but it doesn't seem like a lot of people go there at all, since there's people of pretty much all ages there and lots of people taking night classes and classes on other campuses, plus I'm only there three days a week...

The school I'd like to transfer to is large, but I'm not considering it based on size or anything, I'm considering it because they've got one of the best business programs in the state and I'm shooting for a good scholarship there. I could care less how many people go there or how popular the school is.

[Vlerchan]

In college it matters a lot more what the sizes of your classes are as opposed to the size of your whole college. Unless you see "seeing bigger clumps of people" or "finding a tighter squeeze in the corridors" as the pinnacle of college life then the size of your college population-wise isn't going to matter a huge amount.

In my opinion between 50 and 100 is best in regards to class size. It's large enough that you get to meet a variety of people. But small enough that you get to know everyone well enough. (It should be noted that I've been in college like 7 days so I'm not sure how much this is all worth).

[Typhlosion]

I'm @ UNIFEI, that has around 4k students in Itajubá.

I wanted to go to UFSCar, which is medium-sized.

My class is the biggest, at only 65 :)

[Gamma Male]

Well, my two dream schools are Caltech which is moderately small, and MIT which is moderately large.

But as long as it has good engineering and physics programs I wouldn't care much.

[Mob Boss]

I already go to a quite small one. i like it, though.

[Abyssal Echo]

The college I'll probably go to is close to me and it's very small.

[James Dean]

It depends on what you're studying. I go to a small junior college right now, I am eventually going to transfer. But I think I'm happy where I am right now. Just getting used to it.

[asrlem]

Smaller school or moderately sized school

[phuckphace]

I've already taken some classes at the community college in town and there's no way in hell I'd go back there. $2,000 per semester and the ancient Dell "workstations" are all running Windows XP on a Celeron and 1GB of RAM. BSOD and lost your work? tough shit suckers. the instructor I had was a hipster douchebag who rode my ass like an even grouchier and whiner and scarf-wearing version of my dad. I had to remind him that I was paying his salary, and told him that as a paying customer I was dissatisfied with his service. that humbled him a bit (but sadly he remained a hipster)

large uni is out of the question for several reasons, the main one being I don't have a spare 100 grand lying around.

[allisonmyers]

when you goto abig school your just a number

[Miserabilia]

large definetly, i want it to be like a city, and in a city. I love cities

[xXl0sth0peXx]

Small, and only small. I have to be able to have my professors know me by name and I need to be able to know the people on campus. I don't wanna be with 20,000 people and know like 5 of them.. I want to know everyone. I also get overwhelmed by large crowds and situations so from a mental standpoint, I'd do a lot better at a smaller place too. Among other things.

[chrisawesome]

Go to a small school that allows the same degree that bigger ones offer. Most smaller schools offer the exact same as larger universities. Depending on your career you can work your way up by learning on the job. Though you won't be paid as much as the smaller degree, but you can save on schooling that will cost you 3 maybe 4 times as much.

Also, your class population is smaller there you can learn better and the class relates more. That way you make more friends and do better in grades. You learn more for your job and well eventually get paid more.

[ImagineRepublicCity]

Well, I don't live in America so I don't know half the terms you're throwing out and I'm not sure if you're talking about uni/college or High/Senior(?) School. Either way, the school I'm going at now has 1000 students, give or take, and we're a public school. So definitely smaller.

If you're talking about uni/college though, probably a small one would still be nice. Sure, you might not meet as many people, but people come and go at Uni, so you're never not going to have anyone. And it'll allow you to actually connect and know your lecturers and fellow classmates.