Choose the one where u've got full scholarship. UMN has good programs in engineering, but I believe you'd have to go for the one that offers u in-state options. I have limited knowledge about Minnesota but regarding UTA, I tell u that living costs is relatively cheaper at Texas. U have one problem living in Texas, u gotto own a car if u intend to....U know wot i mean. Gud luck!

The Uof MN area is really expensive. Plus, if u havenot got any scholarship from Uof MN, I recommend not to go there. BTW, Ugrad degree ta jata bata leeye pani huncha( UTA is a gud school too). If u think abt goin for grad. school then u have lotta time to think abt..

currently i m going to university of Texas at Arlington. talking abt university, its a good one. But after u get here u need to study hard because its a tough university and the professor are also tough. And to maintain your scholarship you gotta maintain 3.25 gpa. i dont know abt the other. hope this information will be helpful to you. Contact me if u need any other help.

Thank you pokhara ko keto I am from pokhara too lol...chiyapasalekaancha and sports freak.....Well I dont know...If I go to UMN istead of UTA i am gonna pay may be 3000 more each semester and may be spend 100-200 more on living but it is one of the best school...and it does rank in first tier in US news and 30 in World Ranking ....I dont know sometime I think that If I go to good school I have better chance for Job and intership...what do you think guys....SUggest me....You guys help gonna be appreciated...

I think University of Minnesota enjoys a very good reputation..and there are lots of companies in Minneapolis/St. Paul area..go to UMN if you can afford that extra $3,000..UMN's ranking and reputation equals to those of UNC and UT Austin..and UTA doesn't even compare..by the way, are going there for grad or undergrad??

I went to grad school at  U of M Twin Cities , for Computer Science. They have very good graduate program for computer science, and it is very competitive to get in . There are many active research programs with CS.

You are right, it is definitely very expensive. So that is why, there are hardly any nepali students for undergrad. But if you get in grad school you will have lot of opportunities for RA/TA.

If I were you, I would go to decent university and do really well and try to go in  very good univeristies for grad school. I don't know how good is UTA for CS undergrad.

While doing undergrad,

i.  Make sure you are involved with research with your professor or even do independet research.

ii. It will be nice if you can get some paper published in ACM, EEE or any good journal

I am telling this you this , because when you are in grad school, most of the  students admitted are from good universities in  China and India and  they have very good fundamental  knowledge of CS. Very good in C , or any programming language and you got to comepete with them.

Good luck and work hard. I am sure you will achieve your dream.

 

Thank you guys.....And anybody from University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....Can you say something about it how is it????

I am an undergrad at U. i think if cost does not matter to u, it is definitely the better choice than going to UTA. there are few Nepalese undergrads. most of them came here last semester. i heard that few more are coming next fall. so if u are planning to come here, it's really a great time, coz you might find some Nepalese room mates, that will definitely reduce ur living expenses to some extent. Get in touch with NSA, they will have better idea of how many Nepalese undergrads are coming . For school expenses, it will cost you 8000 dollars a semester including ur insurance. The living around campus is quite expensive if you want to live by urself.

Contacting NSA at UMN is worthless. People involved in that are so irresponsible and they do not deserve to be organized, as they never go to the norm of group or association. You will get a lot of help from nepali residing in Minneapolis, but these so called NSA people they won't be helpful. They are bunch of nepali who think they are the best as they go to good school. My suggesstion is contact nepali outside UMN to arrange thing in minneapolis, if you decide to come.

Thanks aryans and harikancha....And One thing how hard it is to find job oncampus and scholarship as well....are you guys getting scholarship also....How much they charge for insurance....And can you telll me abt how much rent u gotta pay if u live off campus also...What abt parking I gotta car and don wanna sell it....So is parking easily available or that another problem...

Since I'm in grad school with funding, I have not much info on how hard
to find jobs on campus. But i guess its not hard to find oncampus job.
regarding off campus, i heard that its hard to find, but not sure. You
will have more infor from undergrads attending here.

regarding
rents, if you live offcampus in cooperative housing then depending upon
room size it will cost above 280. In there are some coops in saint paul
where bunch of nepali stays, they have room from 250 to 550 i guess.
But you have to share kitchen and bathroom and have to do some weekly
house jobs.

You can stay in appartment sharing with people, if you get. Usually one bedroom apt cost avg of 600 and 2-3 BR average of 7-800.

If
you live in apt or coop you will have parking option either in parking
lot/garage/ or on/off street parking. and do not cost alot. now i'm
paying 10/mo in my housing for parking.

If you plan to park on
campus, then good luck, it will be expensive and difficult to get
parking pass. However, you can buy a metro pass at around $80-85 for
whole semester. That will help you a lot as it will give you unlimited
ride in metro buses and light rails. there is campus bus service
running every 5-10 min during semester and connects st. paul and
minneapolis campus. so many people stay in st. paul (cheaper rent)
eventhough their school is at minneapolis and viceversa.

Health insurance cost 852 per semester.

Regarding on campus job, it is not that hard to find one. so, don't worry about that . Harikanchha has already provided u most of the informations. As u are an IT major, most of ur classes will be in Minneapolis Campus, so i  recommend living somewhere close to minneapolis campus ( again if the cost factor is not a big deal for you). I agree with Harikanchha on somewhat about NSA, but still try to be in conact if you can so that you will have better information regarding the undergrads coming next semester ( especially in finding roommates if you are planning to have any). when i first came here, i did not have any clue about NSA. Even i did not know anybody, but still everything went well. About the Scholarship, it is really hard to get undergrad scholarship unless u are super smart. if you have any questions further, let us know.

Thank you guys....Well yeah its a good school and I really want to go there....About the money its preety expensive...And I doubt if I got any scholarship ...Coz my admission letter has not been arrived yet....Wow Insurance was damn high for a semester.....and I saw in there website that they dont let any outside insurance that sucks....About the money.... I guess I can manage to graduate if I could arrange my living cost by working on campus... But after graduation I will be broke if I go there thats for sure....And guys what about JOB after graduation....Are the Nepalese Undergrad over there or any other international student graduating from UMN get job easily or its hard any idea??? If any undergrade graduated from there in IT...Do share abt getting job after graduation.....

The probability of getting jobs after the graduation depends mainly upon u, but the school reputation does matter in the situation when u compete with persons from different institutions. i personally do not know any already graduated IT Undergrad from here. But i do know few who have graduated with undergrad degrees like Finance and something else and they did find a job. But the main thing  is that u have the access to  lots of opportunities to explore urself .

UTA beputta Garmi thaam maa

UofM beputta Jado thaam ma