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No doubt, Austin can be a little left of left which would not have been a good fit for me. Hunter sounds like a great student, you should be very proud of him. Tution at Rice is comparable to TCU from what I understand. My partner has a daughter in TCU right now and he is paying $38,000 a year to send here there. Very expensive, I need to save alot more money.

Those schools would not have been an option for me, for one they would have laughed at my grades in high school and there is no way me or my parents could paid anything close to those rates.

the women are definitely the finest you'll ever see! haha every corner you'd swear you just saw the most gorgeous one you've ever seen, but then you turn the next corner and boom another one... anyway.....

I attended school there, pretty fun school and I didn't even live on campus.

Any time you want to hit some lakes though just holler at me. I'm always looking for people to go with, and I know the areas around there pretty well!

I've been to the ul campus and good god!!!! If i went there i wouldn't get any school work done with all the partying and tail chasing.

If you are looking to work in I&E and play with drafting, then Lafayette is where you want to be....ITEC grad right here....Work in the oilfield in Lafayette as a designer with no plan to move West...got my fishing spots and a nice duck lease...a few extra bucks for more concrete and farther drive to the places I love...nope....If you get down here, we'll go fishing or make a duck hunt and I'll school you on what you need to do....

Brayden, let me throw this out there to you. ULL is great and so is the town, along the lines of what everyone has said here, it has pretty much been covered. Sure traffic is a mess, but what town isn't and besides, at ULL - you don't need to drive for much anyway! I attended both ULL and McNeese, and ULL was better since they had more to offer (classes, recreation, culture, etc.).

Now, what you want to pursue for a career needs to be looked at also. I have no regrets in my life, but after going to school for 3 years and working as a paramedic for 13, I now find myself in the oil/gas industry. To see what 22 y/o petroleum engineers are bringing in makes me sick to my stomach. Sure the medical field is great, especially nursing, but if I had to do it all over again - PE would be the ticket. I laugh to see what my brother-n-law spent in loans and college expenses to become a M.D. (general practice at that) compared to what he is making. He will work for 10 years to pay it off, making what I make in the office. These PE's are making double and unless they design a "flux capacitor" (sp?) that makes the use of hydrocarbon energy disappear, then we will need more than ever. With your grades/mentality/personality - the sky is the limit. ULL has one of the best PE programs around and big money jobs are waiting.

If you would like, let's set up a day when you can come to Lafayette, meet some of the guys that work for us and we can take you around the campus. I would also like to introduce you to the director of the PE school here at ULL so you can meet some of the students to see what they are working on and some of the things you can expect. Let me know, invitation is open!

This is a joke but....

After reading this thread you ULL folks can NEVER make fun of any LSU fans for being homers ever again. ULL > Harvard

I graduated with a BS in Civil Engineering (2005). I loved it. The women are beautiful. The Christian ministries are really good on campus.

Depending on what you want to major in it might or might not be the right fit. If you want to work at the plants I believe the Instrumentation technology degree at McNeese might be the best place. If you want to go into Computer Science program I believe UL has the best one around.

The fishing and hunting opportunities are good and close. You could easily skidaddle to the Basin after class anytime. You could also hunt Indian Bayou and Sherburne which are in the basin. Wax Lake is closer to you as well.

UL just built some nice apartments on campus. They are building more and might even be getting ready to buy the old Lourdes hospital land that is just off campus. If this happens it will be great for the college.

The football team is good right now too. It is a good time to be a UL graduate........Yeah, if I had it to do over again I would go to UL

Easy.........just trying to help a kid out! Besides, I like to stir the pot, so I wear my McNeese colors when they play ULL.

I know you do, me too....

This is the longest thread I have ever seen without a fight. :help:

UL was a great school, I love Lafayette and would not want to live anywhere else.......PM me Fool I have heard some good things about you and would love to put you on some fish.......and oh yea the girls are not bad here either :-)

TB

I spent six years of my life attending UL. I graduated in Electrical Engineering in 2010.

Everything that has been said about the women is an understatement. There is no comparison to the nightlife of Lafayette and any other city in the state, with the exception of New Orleans.

The tuition is very reasonable, one of the lowest in the country. Lafayette is not the cheapest place to stay, but if you are a college student and not trying to impress anyone you can rent a decent place for a reasonable price. Just about every department at UL is highly respected in the professional field and the amount of job opportunities in Lafayette are endless.

Just so no one calls me a Homer, I have to admit that parking on campus blows. At the end of every semester before I could schedule for the next semester I would have to go pay all of my parking tickets. They have built two new parking towers since then which should help.

Also, the amount of construction going on on campus right now is unbelievable! I drove through campus last week and was amazed. There are new buildings popping up everywhere.

One thing that no one has mentioned yet is the atmosphere on campus. UL has been voted as one of the most beautiful campuses in the nation for the last several years. The century Oak trees that line St. Mary st. are some of my best memories of walking through campus. The swamp is a cool place to go sit by and have lunch. There are brim, bass, gators, and turtles in the swamp. One simple warning: once you live in Lafayette you will never want to move away.

That is because you kno"W" "W"ho has not posted.......:D

Y'all need to start calling it UL Lafayette not just UL:rotfl: UL Monroe grad here!

Fool, do NOT choose a college due to women, hunting, or fishing. I failed my first 2 years at La Tech due to duck hunting. I would take that back if I could. You will get an entire month off in December/January to hunt and every weekend for that matter. Its just 4 years of your life, and probably the most important 4 years for that matter. There is plenty of time to hunt/fish. Choose the best college for what you want to do, try and network with people and make sure to get an internship when you get closer to graduating.

Lafayette is chock full of good looking women though

Y'all need to drop back down to DII!

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If your wanting to pursue anything oilfield related....ULL is the ticket. All the majors know this and they recruit at ULL. I was wined and dined by Haliburton and offered a job. Baker Hughes offered me as well among others...and this all before I graduated. I came into a job in Sulphur and it fit my plans at that time so I came back.

Their engineering programs while i was attending were top notch.

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The swamp outside the union is cool as hell. I wanted to fish that sucker so bad...alligators, turtles, bream, gar, bass, and probably all kinds of other stuff I never noticed. used to feed the squirrels french fries from the cafe...lol fat lil suckers..

We were winners in DII! All about the money, we beat Bama once!

Just my 2 cents here. But out of the 2, I'd go to UL. Both are good schools. Even though Laffy is only an hour away, everyone should leave home for college. UL will give you more of a college experience than McNeese which will prob only feel like a continuation of high school.

Also agree with Sulphite on his views if that is the career path you are looking into.


PS - LSU also has a fishing team. ;)

Do you believe that you would not have been wined and dined by Halliburton or Baker Hughes had you gone to LSU, aTm or any other four year school for that matter? You graduated into an oilfield related major with oil over $100 per barrel. Anyone with a degree that is even remotely related to the oil field right now can get a job it is a hot field. Do you think aTm graduates are having a hard time finding a job right now?

When I graduated in 2000, I had 14 job offers and I stopped taking interviews. Does that mean I would not have had the 14 offers at LSU or Rice or even ULL? Actually had I gone to a better University I bet I would have had even more offers.

ULL as a good school I think is a given. Good school, beautiful campus and women. Great school? Not outside of west Louisiana by most people. Sorry but I think most people still see the state as Tulane, then LSU and then the other tier. In that other tier you find ULL, MSU, SLU, etc... ULL I think is the top notch school in the third tier and there is nothing wrong with that.

You cannot compare ULL to a tier one school. That tier one school cost money and if your goal is to get a good job close to home in most majors that ULL is a fine choice and you will do really well.

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Fool, pick your school off of what program you want to go to school for and nothing else...just my opinion.

Man, go where you want, but just because a school is bigger doesn't make it better automatically. A few years ago, the mcneese wildlife program had damn near a 100% employment rate after graduation, most of those in wildlife/environmental. To me, its all about the faculty. Mcneese has great programs. One of the faculty is a world renounded (sp?) crocodilian expert. I've heard the engineering program is one of the tops in the nation, id imagine by way of employment. I don't care what anyone says, big doesn't always mean better. Reason I chose mcneese over LSU or a&m for wildlife is because some biologists with the state said the program was better because of the professor. It's all about what experience you want to get.

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Good advice. Also he is getting a full ride to ULL and that make a huge difference compared to having to pay to go to a big school. Since he has no desire to go out of state and try to climb the corporate ladder, as you guys have said MSU and ULL are very good choices and with O&G as hot as it is, if he goes that route he will probably have a job before his senior year.

What was served? Who won that game anyway?

Baker Hughes and Haliburton wine and dined Mcneese engineers while I was there as well. I also got wine and dined by citgo too.

Just kiddin around. had to dig hard for those pics lol. We hung in there though. Didnt just hand it over.

Oil and Gas Oil > $100 - Southern University engineers probably got the same treatment.

Supply and demand drives this. There are limited people with a skill set neccessary for oil and gas and demand is at an all time high.

You guys are in the right field, good choice.

You guys did more than hang in, that was a close game. LSU got a cheap 4th quarter touchdown by Ford becuase the game was closer than the score indicated.

ULL is a great university that provides an excellent education. While its name may not carry the prestige other schools in the state carry, ULL is becoming highly acclaimed. With all of the advancements in technology and communication it's becoming a reality. Again, like others have previously mentioned what you plan on doing in life and the program you are looking into makes all the difference as to where you should attend. Some programs are much better than others. (Geology recently been crowned best in the WORLD)

This is a great topic! And very interesting thread. With your question given in the above writing, let me tell you about "Oscar". Oscar, or Big O as I call him is a young man from Venezuela that had a degree in petroleum engineering from Oklahoma, and had enrolled in ULL for his masters in Petroleum Engineering. When my boss met Big O, he was waiting tables in Agave Resturant in Lafayette. Big O appleid to many companies in OK prior to graduating with honors, but nobody would give him a chance so he decided to enroll for his masters. My boss met him and after several visits and discussions over a couple weeks, he gave Big O a card and told him to call. That was 1.5 years ago. Big O is now the lead engineer on some amazing new developments in technology and he was in my office last week. To see what this "kid" is doing up there in PA on some fracs we call "spiders" is truly a crazy sight to see! He is awesome!!! All because he couldn't find a job in OK and came to Lafayette!!

you wont regret UL, i came here for school 13 years ago and have never left. You will like everything about lafayette, dead center of really good fishing. traffic is only bad at certain times on certain streets. Once you live here there are plenty of ways around it. Its only really bad on johnston st at 5. plenty of great places to live, apartments and houses in the saint streets, if you need to store a boat. there is no place with prettier girls, at least that ive been, and ive been alot of places. not to mention you are in the heart of oil country. job's are pleanty within a 20 mile radius of lafayette. its also just big enough where you can do your own thing but small enough where you get to know a lot of people. I met some of my best friends and hunting/fishing buddies here. another cool thing is just about everybody has a camp somewhere.

UL has a good engineering program, plus lafayette has good quality of life.
Companies look more at experience than anything, stick with any STEM related degree. My choice would be a BSME first.

Fool, I would have to agree with FFF on some of what he has to say. I'm a Petroleum Engineer grad, but from LSU. When I graduated, I was turned down for some interviews because I went to LSU and not aTm or OU. The oilfield is a very tight knit community and there is loads of money to be made if you work hard and have a personality.

I remember when I started college, my Dad told me in 10 yrs you will be able to name your price and place you want to work as Petroleum Engineers are a dying breed and we will always need oil and gas. Being out of school for 9 yrs now, I can say he is correct. I work in Lafayette for a small impendent company and can say it was the best decision I have every made.

When I graduated there were 5 engineers in my class and three were going back overseas which left three working in the USA.

I saw UL Lafayette fishing on a FLW college tour the other day, they have had a bass club for several years, just not well known

USL Grad here.....as long as Lafayette is the service hub of the oilfield, there will be PLENTY jobs around.

As far as Cypress Lake near the union.....You NEVER want to have to "clean" it!!!!!!! But is was a fair price for the fun "we" had.

And...where in the heck can you get a poboy like Old Time Grocery that close to campus!

Just for the sake of argument, the link below lists the top engineering schools in the country.

Schools of note:

UT - 8
aTm - 12
Rice - 31
UofH - 77
LSU - 93
Tulane - 102
OU - 102
Bama - 109
La Tech - 126

ULL not listed.

http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory...ng.aspx?page=1

Fool as good as your grades are and you love for fishing....As much as I hate to day this...




But you could get a ride to UT which you would have all kinds of fishing and wildlife opportunities
Also LSU has a great fishing team....just think you have more options than ULL or MSU

IMO

Even AtM would be close to home and great for u

Chicken those stats are bs....schools give money so they get a better ranking...

BTW, why U MAD @ ULL.......

Not mad, I have no issue with ULL. I know Fool is a 4.0 student and if he is smart as people say he is with a great ACT score he could get in a much better more highly recognized school. I think it is great that everyone on here is proud of their ULL degree and they should be. I recognize ULL for what it is not want some want it to be.

It is his life, if he wants to stay close to home and get a free ride then who can blame him. Also I have never heard anyone say anything bad about Lafy, I have heard it is a great city to live in.

Where u rank

This coming from soneone who did not finish high school.....l m a o

Those stats matter if you want to devote your entire life to your job and become an R&D engineer somewhere like NASA, but for what he said he wants to do I think mcneese or ul will be more than enough. As long as your school is ABET accredited and you graduate with an engineering degree, you should have no problem finding work. At least in mechanical engineering. Can't speak for the other disciplines

I agree with you 100% well said. I think this thread has turned into a ULL is the best school in the country debate (which it is not) v/s is it a good school and can he find a job. There is no doubt that there is plenty of work for him in the Lafy area and that a degree from ULL will get him there and he can and will do just fine.

LMaO try again...I guess your Engineering Degree is putting you on top of the world...I'm proud of you Renee'

A school is what you make of it. Some see McNeese as Ryan Street High, others see it as something to be proud of, a four year university that if you graduate from it, means a great deal. Same goes for every university, including ULL, although I will deny that it was me that said this. Someone had to have hacked me. Geaux Pokes!! Haha

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I would go to the best school that offers the best incentives for you to go there. If you get a full ride to a great school do it, and it may be worth it just if you get a partial scholarship to go ahead and take the partial for the better school. Not saying a full ride to ULL would be bad, but I know for a fact if I had gone to ULL I would have not made it here. The scenery is absolutely ridiculous and ULL is ranked as a party school, so the temptations would definitely be there. I moved down to Lafayette 2 years ago and I have really enjoyed this place and may decide to stay, and I am a big time N La 'homer'.

Austin is a very cool place, the school is great, no shortage of girls there either, and they may be looking for someone who doesn't gel up their hair and shave their arms!