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The Experts' Choice: Great Public Universities for a B Student with a Strong Desire for College Success

Here are the colleges for the student who did well in high school but really wants to takeoff in college.

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Top Choices

• Auburn University (Auburn, AL)
• College of Charleston (Charleston, SC)
• East Carolina University (Greenville, NC)
• Frostburg State University (Frostburg, MD)
• Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, IN)
• Louisiana State University — Baton Rouge (Baton Rouge, LA)
• Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
• SUNY College at Oneonta (Oneonta, NY)
• The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL)
• Towson University (Towson, MD)
• University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
• University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD)
• University of Minnesota — Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)
• University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH)
• University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)
• University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK)
• University of Oregon (Eugene, OR)
• University of South Carolina — Columbia (Columbia, SC)
• University of Tennessee at Knoxville (Knoxville, TN)
• University of Vermont (Burlington, VT)

Other Choices

• Appalachian State University (Boone, NC)
• Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (Bloomsburg, PA)
• Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, GA)
• Iowa State University (Ames, IA)
• James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA)
• North Carolina State University — Raleigh (Raleigh, NC)
• Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, AZ)
• Ohio State University — Columbus (Columbus, OH)
• Ohio University (Athens, OH)
• Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK)
• Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR)
• Pennsylvania State University — University Park (University Park, PA)
• Plymouth State University (Plymouth, NH)
• Radford University (Radford, VA)
• Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey — New Brunswick (Piscataway, NJ)
• SUNY — New Paltz (New Paltz, NY)
• SUNY — Plattsburgh (Plattsburgh, NY)
• Salisbury University (Salisbury, MD)
• Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX)
• The College of New Jersey (Ewing, NJ)
• The Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA)
• The Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)
• The University of Montana (Missoula, MT)
• University of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
• University of Bridgeport (Bridgeport, CT)
• University of California, Riverside (Riverside, CA)
• University of Colorado Colorado Springs (Colorado Springs, CO)
• University of Delaware (Newark, DE)
• University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
• University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
• University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY)
• University of Maine (Orono, ME)
• University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, VA)
• University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, MA)
• University of Missouri — Columbia (Columbia, MO)
• University of North Carolina at Asheville (Asheville, NC)
• University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Wilmington, NC)
• University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)
• University of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI)
• University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)
• University of Wisconsin — Madison (Madison, WI)
• Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA)
• Washington State University (Pullman, WA)
• West Chester University of Pennsylvania (West Chester, PA)
• Western Connecticut State University (Danbury, CT)