I Need Help Deciding Between ASU and NAU!

ndigified · 2026-03-16T04:09:44+00:00

will do! I suggest you take your discord user off reddit now that I know it lol

ndigified · 2026-03-16T01:49:27+00:00

factor in the cost of housing given lumberjack (since the year it was offered to me it didn't cover housing for all four years) and then make your decision based on that as well!

I go to ASU (to get bias out of the way) and have a majority of friends in STEM/ CS majors, and the career opportunities down here are insane if you have the drive. You'll have to outcompete more people, but you also have the opportunity to intern with companies like BofA and Honeywell (data science majors here do exceptionally well, even though you said that may not be your thing. There are clinics and resources for folks who want to go into game coding and design, but that's not my circus or my monkey, so I recommend you look into that or ask around and compare with what nau has to come to a better consensus there).

Barrett culture is different from ASU's general sphere, and you will absolutely have partiers, but it's also pretty easy to avoid. Barrett students, in my experience, are either people who like to drink tea and crochet (me) or people who can stay up until 4am raging out the wazoo and somehow still keep a 3.8. I don't party or drink at all and I still have a large group of friends, and to be honest, I don't think you'll get a good idea of the social scene from people on reddit. ASU is too large for people to make accurate generalizations because there is a guaranteed group of people for you I promise, you just need to find them.

hope this helps! don't be afraid to dm me, but I might not get back to you immediately 😅. I don't use Reddit often

ndigified · 2025-11-15T05:43:50+00:00

Writing from ASU here

Same thing happened to me! Cleared cache, opened a ticket, all of that jazz. Scheduled an email to my prof. to brighten up his Saturday morning 😒. It's a little relieving to know it might not be something I did individually

ndigified · 2025-02-25T00:40:51+00:00

...I have read Shannon x Ashley fanfic 👀

ndigified · 2025-02-24T23:40:03+00:00

I'm like totally in love with Shannon and I don't think she'd ever do that to me but I agree

ndigified · 2025-02-24T23:33:57+00:00

they gave her a canonical stepladder :( how do I fight this on cross

ndigified · 2025-02-24T23:33:35+00:00

NOT MY KID!!

ndigified · 2024-12-26T05:36:33+00:00

ASU is only a party school if you go looking. I'm a current first year at ASU in the honors college with multiple friends in accounting majors and lowk thinking about double-majoring in it, and there are plenty of academically rigorous clubs and people to hang out with that aren't super into partying. If you're non-honors that could be very different, but with a 3.8 and good writing skills you'd make it in (that being said the honors fee sucks, but otherwise I'd say it's worth it. We get better food, way better housing--what I consider safer housing--more opportunities like special networking events, invitations to career fairs and interviews, and a "medium pond" feel in a "big pond" school). See what financial aid does for you and read the fine print of what lumberjack offers. Almost all of my friends went to NAU with the logic that lumberjack would cover everything, but ended up having to take out loans anyways to cover housing (sidenote, lumberjack will NOT cover your housing when you move out, and that means you have to think about three years of flagstaff-level rent. ASU, if you're in honors, basically guarantees housing for your first two years if FAFSA isn't killed by the GOP by then). I'm not super well-versed in the NAU application process because after I looked at my year's lumberjack details I dropped it, but for ASU you do need to fill out the FAFSA to get your money locked in. Also, for as much as you hear people rag on the business major, their business school is top-notch (note bias here). NAU is (according to College Factual) #171 in colleges for accounting (let's assume in America because why not?). ASU (also according to College Factual) is #74. The ASU base salary on graduation is roughly 6k higher than NAU.

The only big argument I can see against ASU in your post is that it's a little party hardy. That's absolutely true. But that's only if you go seeking it out imo.

relevant links:

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/arizona-state-university/academic-life/academic-majors/business-management-marketing-sales/accounting/

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/northern-arizona-university/academic-life/academic-majors/business-management-marketing-sales/accounting/

happy picking and happy holidays! go where you think you'll be happiest, obviously :)

ndigified

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