UF vs FSU vs UMiami

[mellow geyser]

Schools: University Of Florida, Florida State, and University of Miami
Intended major: Journalism/broadcast media
Similarities: all close to home, all top 60~ colleges, all have decent to great sports which i need for my major.
Differences: FSU is better for media degrees, UF is better at sports (outside of football), Umiami is top 3 public schools for journalism, and i know UF's campus more than FSU/UM.

[stoic turtle]

while umiami is a great school, i think its cost is simply too high for it to be in the running vs two state schools with crazy academics and crazy cheap tuition

FSU also is in the state capital, which for journalism can be very important

i may be a tad biased but overall id rank the three schools as FSU>UF>UMiami for journalism

but i really dont think you can go wrong with any of the choices, theyre all great schools

[heavy cypress]

go uf

i think uf or fsu tbh

umiami not worth it

[mellow geyser]

i plan to do sports journalism, however

the goal is to be a cameraman/producer for a sports company/espn, or go intertational and work in other sports

[stoic turtle]

i see

i think both school's programs are on a level playing field, then

go to the one which you would prefer to be at for 4 years

like which campus/city/environment would you prefer

[winged mural]

Tallahassee is a lot more rural and small compared to Gainesville or Miami and has what goes along with that and I would definitely keep the city’s environment in mind

[stoic turtle]

not compared to gainesville, no

tallahassee metro has 381k people
gainesville metro has 348k people

although, gainesville is more centrally located so is a bit close to other metro areas like orlando and jacksonville

[winged mural]

Tallahassee sure feels more rural

I’m actually surprised the metro area is bigger

[mellow geyser]

2, i'm doing community first, easier chance of getting in + im saving up.

I might do 4, if there's a masters option

[stoic turtle]

i believe both schools offer a combined bachelors/masters option

[mellow geyser]

yea, but then i also dont know if i want to stay 4 years. i was considering doing FSU as my undergrad, and UF as my graduates

[stoic turtle]

im considering doing the same lol\

but yeah, both schools are great and theres no big dealbreakers for either

[mellow geyser]

the thing that sucks is i was going to try and apply senior year, but im being forced to graduate early due to credits 😭. bright futures is fucking carrying right now

[stoic turtle]

oof

[mellow geyser]

yea. ik UF's campus more, but ik FSU is doing AMAZING with football and basketball, and i wanna try to go to both ig

[stoic turtle]

well if you're doing CC first, thatll give you a year or two to familiarize yourself with each school more

id definitely apply to both as a transfer

[mellow geyser]

ik the CC im planning on going to has a lot of transfers that go to UF/FSU

but im lowkey worried about missing out on that freshman experience

[stoic turtle]

yeah, thats something that a CC cant replicate

[mellow geyser]

i mean, if i go junior year i'd be 19.

so.. im like freshman age ish

sophmore age

[stoic turtle]

you would still have 2 years of being active in clubs and organizations on campus

so you wont have the "freshman experience" but youd get a pretty complete college experience me thinks

[mellow geyser]

i mean, true, also i do kinda wanna party a bit. so i might be able to stay for 3~ years to do both bach/masters?

[thorn scaffold]

i personally like fsu better than both

their games are impressive

the campus reminds me of University of Southern California tbh (I’ve been to both)

u could easily travel for games regardless of the school you attend because they play against each other anyway

& you might be able to go to alabama too

here are some pics i took while i was there of the campus! (the last one isn’t)

the first one is their sports museum (?). something sports related tho

UM is too expensive imo and UF seems a little boring to me

FSU just seems more fun & people are really involved in the sports & culture

[stoic turtle]

it also seems a lot more "laid back"

which definitely appealed to me and is part of why im going there

[thorn scaffold]

it def appealed to me too! if i stay in florida for college i def want to go

[heavy cypress]

In terms of academics uf is better

But yea prob more boring

And their football team is down bad rn

Their upcoming schedule this year is insane

[stoic turtle]

overall sure but it’s major dependent

UF is stem and medicine, FSU is liberal arts

[small ruin]

what about classics?

[stoic turtle]

i would assume FSU as i believe that falls under liberal arts

[small ruin]

yeah fair

do you think if i went to uf id still receive a good education???