I have a few daughters looking for science and engineering programs in the next few years. They’re all scared to attend schools in states hostile towards women. I get that. I’m looking for recommendations for schools in states positive towards women that have good STEM programs.
Buy the “Fiske Guide to Colleges”. It lists hundreds of colleges in the US. You can look up by major, location, price, etc.
It also discusses things like social life, acceptance rate, and amenities.
I have 3 kids that are in or went to college. This was indispensable.
Universities with higher female student ratio are probably a safe bet, although fair warning your daughters will statistically have worse matches for a partner.
Source; went to a school of higher women pop, scored a gem.
Jokes aside though, simply aiming for the best school is a safe bet too.
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Unfortunately North Carolina’s current abortion law is 12 weeks. That’s unacceptable.
And thus, not amenable to women.
If their STEM inrerest is computer science, I have a rare and excellent recommendation of Champlain College.
Pros: In Vermont, very liberal, frats are frowned upon (only exist at UVM), Small city not very dangerous. Kids tend to smoke more weed than they do drink or experiment with drugs. The drug experimentation of choice tends to be psychedelics. Excellent CS program with a truly excellent track record for students working in their field straight from graduation. Excellent food, beautiful state.
Cons: Vermont is seductive. Hard to leave; no good jobs. Also, expensive. Way more than you’d expect for being in the mountains.
What do you mean by “states hostile towards women”? What’s going on there?
No sarcasm. Is this a question you want an answer to?
Otherwise I wouldn’t be asking.
Ohio has constitutionally protected right to choose
And will vote for Trump in 2024 anyways.
We are in Florida and the universities are fine, except for the loss of the New College (may RDS rot in hell for what he did to that school). But if they are interested in engineering they wouldn’t have needed the free school.
If it’s cool here, it’s probably fine everywhere. Colleges are filled with kids from different places.
As long as it’s not a state university. The Florida government is doing all in its power to put their state universities to work as conservative ideology factories.
They are trying, yes. I have a kid at a state school in a science major and she isn’t getting any of that. The one in high school is getting ripped off but honestly they do call the kids by their chosen names and just ignore a lot of the culture war rules.
I think it’s hitting the K-12 education department at the universities harder, and anyone coming here for an education degree is making a mistake already.
Many states in the US are on an anti-abortion warpath. I live in North Carolina, which recently outlawed abortion after 12 weeks. I want to move elsewhere – I feel unsafe and uncared for.
My daughter went to RIT and got a great education with zero harassment issues.
BU is a good bet, sticker price is expensive but the financial aid is pretty decent if you can take advantage. I’d definitely recommend them picking a school somewhere they’d probably want to live after college, as getting employment in the same area you’re going to school is much easier.
I’m sorry you live in a country like that.
Have you considered sending them abroad? I work at a university in Australia and it is actively encouraging female participants in STEM, to break any stereotypes traditional family may have taught them. I think all universities are.like that here.
We are partnered with a university in England and my understanding is they are the same.
You are also able to look at university rankings which cover diversity topics. We have just submitted our data for 2023, so expect new rankings to appear in a few months. Since the data is public, many websites use it for higher education rankings.
Check out Melbourne University if you live in Victoria.
University of Michigan. Ann Arbor is a hardcore dem city and in a state with abortion rights protected af
I second Michigan! I live here, and the middle-state cities here are typically full of left-leaning young folks.
The farther north you go, though, the political leanings get worse. Definitely recommend mid & lower Michigan, though.
Any of the dozens of unis in California should be fine
Ah yeah, here comes the misandrist spiel… “all men bad, all universities around me are patriarchal, won’t someone save me from my own fears and insecurities”.
I think she’s hinting at looking for states that allow abortion.
Just study wherever and cross the state line if needed to deal with that. This is just fearmongering.
Bro whats your problem? Just be lucky to have a dick. The world looks so much different when you have one.
You all.
As if crossing state lines to deal with that isn’t illegal in some places
Right to travel in the US. Courts literally recognise it under the fourteenth amendment’s Privileges or Immunities clause, and the Commerce Clause. Get your head out of your ass, it’s in your laws.
Get your head out of your ass, it’s in your laws.
My head just might be in my ass, but none of that is in my laws, as I’m not a US citizen.
From what I’ve read online more than a few months ago, there were criminal charges in certain places for having abortions in certain other places where they weren’t illegal. Maybe it wasn’t for the people having abortions themselves per se (I don’t remeber anymore), but there definately was a doctor sending aborion pills/information that was sued as well as some police sharing data and peoole getting in trouble shenanigans. Or just straight up people looking stuff up on the internet and being investigated for it. Chilling stuff, really, whichever way you look at it.
Also, with the way the US seems increasingly unstable (what with the Supreme Court doing whatever they please, more or less, as well as a potential 2nd Trump presidency), there’s a high chance that the current status quo changes for the worse, i.e. some of the ammendments/clauses you’ve listed get selectively overruled for abortions, as well as more states getting abortion bans (perhaps even as a simple “No More Abortions, Anywhere” Supreme Court ruling).
You’re so…icky
Fuck off, misandrist.
Such a yucky little personality.
I’m so glad karma will do all the rest as you keep being yourself.
Karma’s a made up wish upon a star, or like believing in a horoscope.
The reality is, you’re a very nasty minded little creature.
I apologize if this isn’t the kind of comment that you’re looking for…but what’s wrong with the colleges local to you? Do you live in an unsafe area? It makes a hell of a lot more sense to go to a school with in state tuition rather than going across the country to a school with needlessly exorbitantly expensive out of state tuition.
Maybe I was just lucky in the state I grew up in.
