Find a community college with a 2-2 combo program with a school with a good name. Buy your daughter a nice car.
She’ll get a better education, have a car at graduation and you will save a lot of money.
She’ll get a better education, have a car at graduation and you will save a lot of money.
I can think of only one: UCLA is a popular transfer school for folks with 2 years of CC.
Here’s an example from a community college near where I grew up.
http://www.hvcc.edu/career-transfer/transfer/articulation_by...
The value varies by major. A good friend of mine went from the engineering sciences major to SUNY Binghamton or Buffalo, where he got an engineering BS and a paid co-op. He ended up paying very little, had no debt, and had a network right out of school to get a job for his PE. Then He started his own engineering practice.
Some state universities have partnerships with other schools for masters programs too. My school had a 3-2 masters program where you’d end up with a state BS/BA and an MS in engineering or sciences from a another school, sometimes public sometimes private.
The nice thing about program transfers vs a normal transfer is that there are no surprises. All of your general education and in-major requirements are met. Anecdotally, it’s a better experience for some majors because the larger universities usually consider teaching a distraction, and you get better instructors and smaller classes for in-major stuff in the CC. Intro to CS in my state school was a hazing ritual designed to reduce a group of 600 students down to 300 for the spring. At the CC, it’s 30-40 kids.