Concord University

If you are a student in any of the sciences, the you better prepare yourself for some hard work. It's good work though. When you graduate, you will be overqualified for anything but graduate school. When I graduated and went to graduate school (both for chemistry), I thought that it was super easy in comparison. However, you will have to sacrifice some notoriety. There isn't a lot of research going on there and almost no money to support summer research for students. Also, almost no one knows about Concord except those from the area and some medical and pharmaceutical schools. All of the schools in the state and some Virginia and Pennsylvania grad schools are also aware of Concord. You need to put yourself out there to get research. Be willing to work for free and at other institutions for summer research. All that being said, the sciences are definitely trying hard to become a state research institution. I always here about them being awarded grants and acquiring new instrumentation. Overall, for what you pay, you can't beat it in the state. Though it is lacking in some opportunities, it is a great school with a unique and rigorous curriculum (at least in the sciences).

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000