Neumont University

[DanDon]

I just received a letter in the mail from Neumont University offering me a full scholarship. The University's website is www.neumont.edu. (www.neumont.edu)

Has anyone heard of this University and have any information on it?

Thanks much,
/dan

[Tristan Lall]

Did you apply to them? If not, I doubt that you'd be interested, given what information appears through the magic of Google*. See here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neumont_University), for example. They offer a one- or two-year bachelors degree in computer science—but that's all that they do, as far as undergraduate classes go. So you don't go there to experience campus life. And don't be surprised if it's a unit in a strip mall with 15 students looking for some cheap postnominal letters.

Also, they offered a full scholarship, unsolicited, yet they are a for-profit institution. Where's the money coming from? Probably the government—if I had to guess, it's all a thinly veiled scheme to extract government funding for higher education, and pocket the proceeds. And you can't do that without students signing up. On the other hand, they may be raising money legitimately from venture capitalists and industry, but it looks too fishy to be true.

*Shouldn't I be compensated for saying that? Next time I run into Sergey, I'll ask him....

[palikero]

You might want to check this link before you make up your mind.
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/10/09/green
This is one of the best schools in the country for Computer Science.
Did you do well on any standardized test?(act, sat) If you did they might be offering you a scholarship based on that criteria. The school tution is currently at 9000.00 USD a quarter and with 10 quarters required to gradutate a full scholarship would be worth quite alot of money. -Palikero