Hi Jules, My daughter has attended both the MCI Virginia Beach campus and the Newport News campus and says she likes the sim labs in the Newport News campus better. She found apartments to be cheaper in Newport News but you need to make sure you talk to someone about the safest areas in the city. My daughter took a test the first time she visited the campus and there was only one part she did not do well on and they showed her a site online to practice and she passed when she went back. MCI is a hands on school and they seem to have the best equipment in their labs, my daughter says the NN campus just got a Med Dispenser machine that no other school in the area has. It looks like they invest a lot of that tuition money back into the students :)