Loyola Marymount University

These new rankings just came out this week for schools specializing in entrepreneurship: Top 25 Undergraduate Programs: 1. Babson College 2. University of Houston 3. Drexel University 4. The University of Arizona 5. University of Dayton 6. Chapman University 7. DePaul University 8. Temple University 9. University of North Dakota 10. Loyola Marymount University 11. Wichita State University 12. Syracuse University 13. University of Notre Dame 14. University of Maryland 15. University of Oklahoma 16. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 17. Xavier University 18. The University of Alabama 19. University of Southern California 20. Ball State University 21. The University of Iowa 22. Brigham Young University 23. Baylor University 24. Northeastern University 25. The Ohio State University So, assuming you are looking for an undergraduate degree, the ones here which would be relatively inexpensive would be the University of Arizona, Temple University, the University of North Dakota, Wichita State, and then all of those The University of (name the state).

I go to Loyola Marymount University, and how they have it set up is that you put a certain amount of money in an account set aside specifically for food, not necessarily a certain number of meals. The system is called Lion Dollars, and it's a University currency made just for food and a few other specific things. As long as you live on campus, you have to get some kind of "meal plan" but most people just get the lowest one and then put their money towards flexi or S dollars or some other University currency that is more flexible. I think that at commuter schools, or schools where housing is guaranteed all 4 years, the number of students looking for meal plans will drop.

Interesting that many of the schools listed by the others are nowhere near the beach! If you need to be within a mile or two of the beach, the only ones I can think of would be UCSD and two CSUs - Channel Islands and Monterey Bay. You could do better if 10 miles from the beach or so was your criterion. Then you could include UCLA and UCI, along with a number of CSU campuses, including San Diego State, Cal State Long Beach, Dominguez Hills, and Humboldt State. There are a few private universities that are might qualify (University of San Diego, Loyola Marymount University, Pepperdine University, University of San Francisco, Mt. St. Mary's College, etc.), but by virtue of the fact that they are private, they have a bit of a pretentious reputation. You should know, though, that no school with thousands of students has only one kind of student. I've taught at some of these schools, and while I recognize the spoiled, pretentious nature of some students, I have to say that you can find plenty of people at each campus who do not fit that stereotype.

Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount University, Soka University.

Loyola Marymount University and USC