ERAU is a great school, but all my friends who are there (about 4) say the social life is downright terrible. It's what you make of it. I am at purdue, and I love it here. The downside of purdue is that the town blows. However, it is a real university, as opposed to riddle, which is more of a small school. As one of my friends from home who goes to riddle says 'riddle is a good school, but it's a joke of a university'.

To each his own. Purdue would be my top choice all over again, too. I think it's awesome here, if you don't mind living in Indiana, lol

The biggest downside about Purdue is that you will be surrounded by 1) Engineering kids, many of who will be incredibly smarter than you (which is very discouraging) and 2) there are many beautiful girls and frats that are distracting. However, in my case, that helped me..lol

however, like I said..a great college atmosphere for sure...except for the music scene. it blows.