Schools, programs, degrees

Start With Paul Smiths

Mr. Eldredge,

Paul Smith's College

http://www.paulsmiths.edu/forestry/surveying.php

Mohawk Valley Community College

http://www.mvcc.edu/academic-programs/degrees/surveying-technology

"Ranger School"
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
SUNY-ES
1 Forestry Drive
Syracuse, NY 13210
315-470-6500

http://www.esf.edu/rangerschool/programs/lst.htm

Penn State Wilkes-Barre

http://wb.psu.edu/Academics/Degrees/surveying.htm

New Jersey Institute of Technology

http://engineeringtech.njit.edu/academics/set.php

When I was at NJIT they had a program to increase class size in Surveying. A resident of the New York Metropolitan area would get in state tuition rates. Since thousands of people travel from eastern PA to work in New York I became a beneficiary of that program. It saved me thousands of dollars. Have your society contact NJIT and ask if the society can sponsor an NJIT student from MA at the NJ tuition rate.

email me and I can reply with my favorites list of almost every college with surveying.

Paul in PA

East Tennessee State University has one. You may think it is a little far away but there are people from all over the nation that come there and lots of online students as well from what I hear now...that could potentially reside close to where you are describing.

Start With Paul Smiths

Thank you, Paul.

I missed Paul Smith's in my list here, but we do already send a letter for a scholarship.

We have not yet notified NJIT or the other NY and some of those schools further west and south of MA. As we have a great offering for the UMaine Orono program that has never been awarded due to lack of application, I'd say the issue at hand is the lack of students entering programs specifically for surveying. The UMaine scholarship would be about 16k awarded over the 4 year degree. That is a good chunk of the tuition.

I am not sure what our Trustees will decide, but I am going to propose that we stop notifying the BIG schools that only offer Civil Engineering and reduce our list to the schools offering Surveying Programs.

From there we can concentrate our efforts on some of the High School level students with TrigStar and incentives for businesses to hire summer interns. My first inclination is to target the technical school students. With my own experience, had I taken TrigStar, I would have aced it (I was am a Math Geek) but as I was applying to Colleges, I was not even considering Surveying (and I had experience working summers for Dad). Of course, had I known of Geodesy, I might have been easily directed to U Miami or a similar school. A mentor suggested that I direct my studies to a liberal arts school; none of which offer a Surveying degree.

Thanks for the direction,
Thadd

Per The U Maine Crossover

It was not clear if Bristol Community College offered an associates degree prior to the U Maine transfer. Doing that may be a plus over just a surveying certificate. Some of the required surveying courses could be tied to U Maine or be jointly with another community college. A fair number of states find an AS in surveying as sufficient.

Paul in PA

Howdy,

For what it's worth, the Texas A&M University Corpus Christi program while named Geographic Information Science does teach surveying. Unfortunately, the current trend is to call it geomatics. There are BS and MS degrees as well as certificates for graduates seeking qualifying training to purrs a surveying license.

Program site is http://gisc.tamucc.edu

The program is seeking to attract students outside of Texas. No obligation to stay there...

Cheers,

DMM
Formerly an adjunct with the program (now fully retired).

Along the same lines, Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, LA offers a BS in Geomatics: http://www.nicholls.edu/doas/

They are also trying to attract out of state students.