From MarketWatch.com:
Cost of living, career prospects should factor into school decision
By Marla BrillWhen Dan Sharpe was looking at colleges during his senior year in high school, his search led him back to his home town near Columbus, Ohio. Sharpe, who graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University a few years ago, also looked at East Coast schools but found their cost of living daunting. After two college internships, one of them in the Columbus area, he landed a job as a project manager with the non-profit Columbus Foundation after graduation.