The iPad or iPad Pro seems to be working out fine for many of these students. An iPad Pro would make a great compliment to a desktop or laptop for your needs, but it won’t serve well as a primary or only device.Īll you have to do is do a search in YouTube to see plenty of college level students using iPad Pros.Ī lot for business and medical/psychology/pharmacology majors and some engineering disciplines like chemical engineering and some various sciences majors.īasically education majors that do not need the full resources of a full blown laptop.

I would never recommend only an iPad Pro for anyone going to college, at least in any degree program in any field of science, medicine or engineering. And no iPad handles very large or complex word processing files or spreadsheets well - that’s an inherent limitation of available device RAM and the iOS apps available for those sorts of files. Trying to write a technical paper on an iPad is a nightmare - when you need a high end word processor and are generating data, figures, plots and so forth from multiple programs to include, the limitations of iOS will have you screaming at the dorm walls. Even doing something as straightforward as writing a technical paper and using a reference manager app while doing so quickly becomes awkward at the least, and impossible at the worst on an iPad.

An iPad Pro is not a replacement for a full fledged preemptive multitasking operating system and computer.

Mac or windows laptop for college