Hello! I am a first time poster here but I have been reading these forums for awhile.
So, I recently found out that I got into my reach school, a highly ranked and well known graduate program. I also got accepted to a relatively unknown school that is low ranked, in state and smaller, and I recieved a very generous graduate assistantship there.
With the financial aid from the lesser known school it will be less than half the price of the highly ranked program. For me, I am not as concerned about going to a "big name school", I mean it is a consideration because I worked hard in undergraduate so it is nice to have that recognition, but what I am most concerned about is the quality of education that I will receive.
So, basically what I think I'm asking is do you think it's silly of me to pay tens of thousands of dollars more to go to a well known and highly ranked school, or do you think a smaller lower ranked school will prepare me to become a speech language pathologist just as well because they are both ASHA accredited institutions, and I'm going to be learning the same material (looking at the courses offered, they seem to be very similar)? I don't want to compromise my education but I also don't want to be in mounds of debt when I get out of school if I will be just as prepared at a lower ranked school.
thanks guyssss