Preparing for College- Guest Blog

Going to college now isn’t just about picking a major and then wait for a great paying career to fall in your lap. Too many students are graduating with debt waiting for them, the average being $26,000 after four years of school. The best way to secure your future is to plan now for future college success. You’ll need to carefully select a school, plan how you are going to pay for it, budget for what you need and be ready after graduation to begin paying back your loans.

Completion of Professor’s Road Trip – New Beginnings 2018

It’s been a whirlwind of a college trip for the professor; and he’s happy to be back home decorating his nest for the holidays. Over this past year, The Professor has introduced us to many different institutions of higher learning across the country. The schools the owl visited this year have one goal in mind – to graduate students in four years.

The Professor’s Road Trip -Tulane University

The Professor has landed in the Big Easy to explore Tulane University.

Tulane is in the heart of New Orleans, LA. This prestigious, private research institution was originally founded as a public medical college in 1834. Its areas of study have expanded significantly in the past 179 years and currently offers a wide variety of degrees in business, law, architecture, liberal arts, tropical medicine, public health, engineering and social work. The size of the student body is much larger than other private schools with just over 8,400 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students. Enrollment may be higher than other private institutions, yet the class size is still intimate with a student/faculty rating of 9:1. The average GPA of those accepted to Tulane is 3.51.

The Professor’s Road Trip – Roanoke College

The Professor got very lost at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.

This school dates back to 1847 when it was transported from Staunton, Virginia by a single wagon to its “new” location of Salem, Virginia. Since then, it has grown in size with a student population of about 2,100 and offers 37 different majors. Roanoke is listed on several “best colleges” lists including The Princeton Review, US News & World Report and Forbes magazine. It is also one of only 280 nationwide colleges to boast a chapter of the most prestigious and oldest honor society – Phi Beta Kappa.

The Professor’s College Road Trip – Clark University

The professor landed in Worcester, Massachusetts which he discovered was not the birthplace of Worcestershire Sauce. Worcester’s population of 180,000 is definitely a college town as it is home to 10 colleges and universities, including the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. The Professor flew over to further investigate the urban setting of Clark University.