Villanova University provides programs, activities and services to advance intellectual, emotional, spiritual, cultural, social and physical development of students. Villanova, ranked by PC Magazine as one of the top colleges for technical careers, provides students with new laptop computers, tech support and state of the art labs. Tuition for Villanova is about $29,000 annually.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the most famous technical schools in the country, prides itself on the basis of advancing student knowledge in science and technology through focuses such as cancer, energy and economics. MIT uses its own operating system known as Athena for students to use at any of the 3,000 wireless access points on campus. Students living in the MIT dormitories are encouraged to augment their dorm rooms with their own technical innovations. Because of this, it's likely to see MIT students integrate tech innovations in their dorms such as an emergency pizza button for quickly ordering pizza without picking up the phone or getting online. Tuition for attending MIT is about $34,000 annually.
Michigan Technological University offers committed housing that values community and academic success for current and incoming students. Michigan Tech is a small school situated in the town of Houghton. Michigan Tech makes use of its community of more than 5,000 students by encouraging them to be involved through programs such as the Blue Marble program, which inputs students into real-life situations of the corporate technology world by mimicking the structure of real-world corporations. Tuition for attending Michigan Tech is about $7,500 annually.
The University of Illinois' campus is connected by more than 72,000 computer connections, more than 200 buildings with wireless access and 10 gigabits-per-second connections for major research networks. The University of Illinois encourages "calculated risk taking" among students living on campus; accordingly, the first Web browser and first parallel supercomputer were invented at the University of Illinois by venturesome students. Furthermore, the University of Illinois offers on-campus Apple and Dell stores with student discounts; video games for rent in the library; and 600MB of free storage space online. Tuition for the University of Illinois is about $7,000 annually.