Re:Local Resources (Score 1)

Believe it or not, Nebraska has two very good technology education programs. Each comes complete with multiple full-ride scholarships (including tuition and housing). There are NO STRINGS attached to either of these programs. Applicants (and current students) come from all over the United States.

At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, there is the J.D. Edwards Honors Program in Computer Science and Business Administration (I am a current student in this program). The focus of this program is to teach both computer science and business in an integrated curriculum. Although funding came from Ed. McVaney, the founder of J.D. Edwards (now PeopleSoft), there are absolutely no strings. More information can be found at:
http://jdedwards.unl.edu

At the University of Nebraska-Omaha, there is the Peter Kiewit Institute offering the Walter Scott Scholarship. The focus of this program is more technologically oriented and lacking the business aspect. More information can be found at:
http://www.pki.nebraska.edu

I had multiple offers and picked the J.D. Edwards Program hoping to get a firm business background that would help me stand out from other Computer Science majors.

I'm very happy here in Lincoln. It is a good campus and the professors are very knowledgeable in their field. Our current director worked in senior management positions at Engineering Systems International (Paris), NKK Corp. (Tokyo), Hewlett Packard, Convex Computer Corp., and Alliant Computer Systems. He was also a research faculty member at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Take these recommendations for what you will. It is well worth your time to at least look into either of these programs. I know that here in Lincoln, if you ask nice, JDE will even put you up for the night (if needed). Just let me know your coming and we'll have a good time with the multiple projection systems in a mad Halo fest (or something).