Anyone has any opinion on UMASS AMHERST AND Drexel U?

[tmiaj1]

I went through lots of slides and people are generally applying for big NAME school like U pitt, etc. 

I am wondering if anyone has any opinion on Umass amherst or Drexel?

 

 

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[kvemuri]

I am hoping to graduate in May with an MPH in Epidemiology from UMass. I am an international student here. It is a good, solid school with excellent faculty and resources/opportunities for completing your curricular activities, including practicum/capstone/theses etc. and for networking with other potential employers. I feel the Epi/Bio department here is slightly smaller in scale compared to the Community health Department which has an enormous outreach and presence in the neighboring areas, but even we in the Epi department have enough projects on hand to complete projects and come out with a good working knowledge of analysis and study design, good enough to get you into decent job at a hospital like Baystate. There are a few other resources for summer internships as well. The only negative is that the school does not offer too much financial support; of the 7 other Epi students in my batch, one had to pay his way through for both the years, while practically everybody else had to pay for their first year. They all received a tuition waiver in the second year. I had an opportunity to TA for the biology department and for the Disability Services, so I received a tuition waiver for my stay here. Hope this helped.

[AlphacentauriC]

Yep, agreed. I was going to say I would take umass over drexel.

[mph2015]

Yep, agreed. I was going to say I would take umass over drexel.

 

Could you possible expand on your opinion, please? I'm also trying to decide between the two schools. Thanks!