UH or Texas Southern? (Houston, Howe: credit, homes, neighborhoods)

[VegasBeauty]

I am thinking about moving to Houston for graduate school. PVAMU does not have a Public Administration program (the program I'm interested in) so that leaves me to University of Houston and Texas Southern. I have been doing my research on both and have seen very mixed reviews about TSU. People say that it's ghetto and I saw that their accreditation was threatened more than once due to financial issues which scares me, but most of the students seemed to have had a good experience. I would avoid TS based on that alone but I'm kind of intrigued given it's an HBCU. Help please!

[mom22bless]

What is HBCU?

[Redlionjr]

Originally Posted by mom22bless

What is HBCU?

Historically black colleges and universities. To the OP, my sister,aunts,uncles,cousins,mother went or graduated from TSU. My sister actually works their now. I think people consider TSU "ghetto" because it's a HBCU located in 3rdWard( which to me all of 3rdWard is not the ghetto)however it is a housing project right across the street from TSU(Cuney Homes) but it's not like that ever crossed over on campus and everybody in the housing projects are not involved in criminal activity. I know over the years TSU has been slacking when it comes to people in charge. However I still hear it's a good school esp. for a HBCU. You know alot of HBCU's are not doing too well financially and that affects everything around the campus. UH just has more resources

[Texascrude]

What do you plan on doing for work after you get your degree, that you can't do now?

[karuna95]

Go with UH, it's got a much more solid reputation. Another plus - it is one of the most diverse universities in the U.S.

[Nairobi]

Originally Posted by Redlionjr

Historically black colleges and universities. To the OP, my sister,aunts,uncles,cousins,mother went or graduated from TSU. My sister actually works their now. I think people consider TSU "ghetto" because it's a HBCU located in 3rdWard( which to me all of 3rdWard is not the ghetto)however it is a housing project right across the street from TSU(Cuney Homes) but it's not like that ever crossed over on campus and everybody in the housing projects are not involved in criminal activity. I know over the years TSU has been slacking when it comes to people in charge. However I still hear it's a good school esp. for a HBCU. You know alot of HBCU's are not doing too well financially and that affects everything around the campus. UH just has more resources

Well, it's the school itself and not the neighborhood that has given TSU a reputation of being "ghetto".

[Redlionjr]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

Well, it's the school itself and not the neighborhood that has given TSU a reputation of being "ghetto".

I don't see it though, I've been to TSU thousands of times doesn't seem "ghetto". I seriously think people say this about TSU because it's a HBCU. Is it some "ghetto" people there? Sure, but majority of the student body there is not considered what people call "ghetto".

[Nairobi]

Originally Posted by Redlionjr

I don't see it though, I've been to TSU thousands of times doesn't seem "ghetto". I seriously think people say this about TSU because it's a HBCU. Is it some "ghetto" people there? Sure, but majority of the student body there is not considered what people call "ghetto".

Well, I never said that reputation was absolutely deserved, but there are other HBCUs located mostly/partially in "bad" neighborhoods that you never hear people call ghetto: Spelman, Morehouse, Fisk, Xavier, etc.

[DejaBlue]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

Well, I never said that reputation was absolutely deserved, but there are other HBCUs located mostly/partially in "bad" neighborhoods that you never hear people call ghetto: Spelman, Morehouse, Fisk, Xavier, etc.

This.

My mom went to TSU but of course back in the 80s it was a good school. It's reputation has been so poor to where it's not really worth it. I know 1 person at TSU's law school right now and it's a "it's a chance to study law because my LSAT score was poor but I plan on getting my LLM at a much more stellar reputation school to off set it"

That's not worth it to me. If you're going to do something extra aka graduate school, go for the gusto as high as you can. Undergrad, eh knock yourself out. I wouldn't but still it's just undergrad but plan on graduate school somewhere much better.

[RedRage]

UH is a more reputable school than TSU will ever be IMO however, my question to you is: why attend a HBCU? UH is a diverse school (which shouldn't matter) and is going to give you a more favorable opinion in front of employers than TSU (personal experience).