Where Should I go to University?

Where Should I go to University?

That depends on your answers to some questions

You must first answer this question:

You must first answer this question:

Why should I go to University?

Why should I go to University?

• Primary Reasons (the reasons that matter most)

Why should I go to University?

• Primary Reasons (the reasons that matter most)

• Secondary Reasons (the reasons most people think are primary)

Secondary Reasons

• Which has my major?

Secondary Reasons

• Which has my major?• Which will best prepare me for graduate

school?

Secondary Reasons

• Which has my major?• Which will best prepare me for graduate

school?

• Which school will help me get the best career?

Secondary Reasons

• Which has my major?• Which will best prepare me for graduate

school?• Which school will help me get the best

career?

• Which school can I afford? Will I get scholarships, etc.

Secondary Reasons

• Which has my major?• Which will best prepare me for graduate school?• Which school will help me get the best career?• Which school can I afford?

• Which Location will I like to live in?

Secondary Reasons

• Which has my major?• Which will best prepare me for graduate school?• Which school will help me get the best career?• Which school can I afford?• Which Location will I like to live in?

• What is the best climate for me?

Secondary Reasons

• Which has my major?• Which will best prepare me for graduate school?• Which school will help me get the best career?• Which school can I afford?• Which Location will I like to live in?• What is the best climate for me?

• Where can I make the best friends and contacts and networks?

Secondary Reasons

• Which has my major?• Which will best prepare me for graduate school?• Which school will help me get the best career?• Which school can I afford?• Which Location will I like to live in?• What is the best climate for me?• Where can I make the best friends and contacts and

networks?

• Where can I get the best grades?

Secondary Reasons

• Which has my major?• Which will best prepare me for graduate school?• Which school will help me get the best career?• Which school can I afford?• Which Location will I like to live in?• What is the best climate for me?• Where can I make the best friends and contacts and networks?• Where can I get the best grades?

• Which school is the right size for me?

Secondary Reasons

• Which has my major?• Which will best prepare me for graduate school?• Which school will help me get the best career?• Which school can I afford?• Which Location will I like to live in?• What is the best climate for me?• Where can I make the best friends and contacts and networks?• Where can I get the best grades?• Which school is the right size for me?

• Which school has the best social life?

Secondary Reasons

• Which has my major?• Which will best prepare me for graduate school?• Which school will help me get the best career?• Which school can I afford?• Which Location will I like to live in?• What is the best climate for me?• Where can I make the best friends and contacts and networks?• Where can I get the best grades?• Which school is the right size for me?• Which school has the best social life?

• Where will I be most fulfilled?

Secondary Reasons

• Which has my major?• Which will best prepare me for graduate school?• Which school will help me get the best career?• Which school can I afford?• Which Location will I like to live in?• What is the best climate for me?• Where can I make the best friends and contacts and networks?• Where can I get the best grades?• Which school is the right size for me?• Which school has the best social life?

• Where will I be most fulfilled?

• What school has the best learning environment for me?

These questions are all important

But…

These questions are all important

But…

They are not the most important questions…

There are 4 questions every school and every student must

answer…

There are 4 questions every school and every student must answer…

• What is reality, what is real?

There are 4 questions every school and every student must answer…

• What is reality, what is real?

• What is the good life?

There are 4 questions every school and every student must answer…

• What is reality, what is real?

• What is the good life?

• Who is a really good person?

There are 4 questions every school and every student must answer…

• What is reality, what is real?

• What is the good life?

• Who is a really good person?

• How can I become a really good person?

Every school, every professor, every student will answer

those 4 questions.

Every school, every professor, every student will answer

those 4 questions.

Even if in very subtle ways!

The most important question I will consider is…

The most important question I will consider is…

What kind of person will I become?

Which University will help you become that kind of person?

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Socratesin Plato, Dialogues, Apology Greek philosopher in Athens

(469 BC - 399 BC)