Try to find value, if you can do the community/junior college route then finish the last two years at a four year institution, I would recommend that . Try to avoid as much debt as you can.
College costs have been out of control for a while, there is the beginnings of a correction.
I agree with the community college route to avoid debt. The last two years is all employers will see.
I went the community college route because my mother was a professor there and my tuition was free. My physics, chemistry and calculus was superior to the state university by a factor of 10. My university roommate had his classmates over so I could explain physics and various mathematics. They got 5 past physics final exams as study aids and could not do them. I did all five in less than an hour and they were ridiculously easy.
Don’t rule out community college as a good start. You may want to inquire about their class scores on the American Chemical Society (ACS) exam which is nation wide and a good way to evaluate science programs.
Amen to that. If she does very well at a community college, there is the prospect of getting a scholarship for her next two years at a four year university.