UVa 2030 strategic plan - realistic and achievable?

[Anonymous]

Won’t be surprised if UF ranks above it this year.

Sure, if the number of online classes is the new metric.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few years ago UVa released a strategic plan with the goal of becoming the top public university in the USA and one of the top universities in the world by 2030. In the past years the school has been slipping in rankings and has fallen to the T5 public, and ranked somewhere between 24-27. Very recently the university opened the School of Data Science, which could bump up CS programs.

Do you think UVa can turn around the decline or will it keep falling lower and lower? The grad law school and business school are very highly ranked but the undergrad is not.

I think it'll keep falling lower and lower. Before you know it, no one will want to attend UVA for ANYTHING. I don't know why they are bothering to build the School of Data Science; should have spent the money demolishing some of the existing buildings since pretty soon no one will want to go there. And don't get me started on Charlottesville, what an awful place to attend college. That is why my DCs decided to say no thanks to their UVA offers of admission (honestly, I am not sure why they even bothered to apply - I refused to pay the application fees) and went to Liberty instead.

Excellent decision. Charlottesville and the campus are a cesspool. Hard to believe it even ranks where it is now. Most likely by 2030 it will fall out of the top 50 and below 20 in publics.

[Anonymous]

Not going to happen.

[Anonymous]

PP is also the same Wisco booster who tries to insert Wisconsin into every conversation about elite publics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few years ago UVa released a strategic plan with the goal of becoming the top public university in the USA and one of the top universities in the world by 2030. In the past years the school has been slipping in rankings and has fallen to the T5 public, and ranked somewhere between 24-27. Very recently the university opened the School of Data Science, which could bump up CS programs.

Do you think UVa can turn around the decline or will it keep falling lower and lower? The grad law school and business school are very highly ranked but the undergrad is not.

Nice try.

+1000. truly yet again another envious parent whose kid didnt get in

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few years ago UVa released a strategic plan with the goal of becoming the top public university in the USA and one of the top universities in the world by 2030. In the past years the school has been slipping in rankings and has fallen to the T5 public, and ranked somewhere between 24-27. Very recently the university opened the School of Data Science, which could bump up CS programs.

Do you think UVa can turn around the decline or will it keep falling lower and lower? The grad law school and business school are very highly ranked but the undergrad is not.

Nice try.

+1000. truly yet again another envious parent whose kid didnt get in

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

publics better and/or more interesting than uva:

CU-Boulder
UCLA
Cal
UCSD
Washington
Michigan
UT-Austin

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:publics better and/or more interesting than uva:

CU-Boulder
UCLA
Cal
UCSD
Washington
Michigan
UT-Austin

Add UNC & GATech

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:publics better and/or more interesting than uva:

CU-Boulder
UCLA
Cal
UCSD
Washington
Michigan
UT-Austin

Add UNC & GATech

GATech - definitely

UNC - eh - it's pretty identical to uva

[Anonymous]

Add Minnesota

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few years ago UVa released a strategic plan with the goal of becoming the top public university in the USA and one of the top universities in the world by 2030. In the past years the school has been slipping in rankings and has fallen to the T5 public, and ranked somewhere between 24-27. Very recently the university opened the School of Data Science, which could bump up CS programs.

Do you think UVa can turn around the decline or will it keep falling lower and lower? The grad law school and business school are very highly ranked but the undergrad is not.

I think it'll keep falling lower and lower. Before you know it, no one will want to attend UVA for ANYTHING. I don't know why they are bothering to build the School of Data Science; should have spent the money demolishing some of the existing buildings since pretty soon no one will want to go there. And don't get me started on Charlottesville, what an awful place to attend college. That is why my DCs decided to say no thanks to their UVA offers of admission (honestly, I am not sure why they even bothered to apply - I refused to pay the application fees) and went to Liberty instead.

This is hilarious. Charlottesville…what a dump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know the US News ranking methodology changed, right? When the schools were judged on a different scale every year, you shouldn't compare one year to another.

THIS. OP is horribly ignorant. UVA was no 2 public is USNWR eight years ago. The only reason it slid was because USNWR changed its methodology to put more emphasis on number of pell grant recipients. anyone on college admissions can tell you that a public university cant control that. Pell grant eligibility is determined after acceptance. So
long as Virginians, as a whole, are wealthier than Californians, UVA will have fewer pell grant recipients. Thus, when USNWR did this, UVA dropped. no big deal. And before you say UVA should do more to service the poor, it has, with a number of outreach prigrams, and is one of the few publics to participate in Questbridge. So, as long as USNWr continues in this path, the Virginia schools will
be "punished" in the ratings because Virginia a better managed stated. Go figure. Everyone in high ed knows this. OP is either ignorant or a VTech (UVA rival) or MD boister or yet another parent fried because their kid didn't get into UVA so take it out here. Ignore and move on

[Anonymous]

Any college's Strategic Plan is just a vision / marketing document. Often, their main use is with fundraising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few years ago UVa released a strategic plan with the goal of becoming the top public university in the USA and one of the top universities in the world by 2030. In the past years the school has been slipping in rankings and has fallen to the T5 public, and ranked somewhere between 24-27. Very recently the university opened the School of Data Science, which could bump up CS programs.

Do you think UVa can turn around the decline or will it keep falling lower and lower? The grad law school and business school are very highly ranked but the undergrad is not.

I think it'll keep falling lower and lower. Before you know it, no one will want to attend UVA for ANYTHING. I don't know why they are bothering to build the School of Data Science; should have spent the money demolishing some of the existing buildings since pretty soon no one will want to go there. And don't get me started on Charlottesville, what an awful place to attend college. That is why my DCs decided to say no thanks to their UVA offers of admission (honestly, I am not sure why they even bothered to apply - I refused to pay the application fees) and went to Liberty instead.

This is hilarious. Charlottesville…what a dump.

Not a dump, but also not sure it is headed in the right direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know the US News ranking methodology changed, right? When the schools were judged on a different scale every year, you shouldn't compare one year to another.

THIS. OP is horribly ignorant. UVA was no 2 public is USNWR eight years ago. The only reason it slid was because USNWR changed its methodology to put more emphasis on number of pell grant recipients. anyone on college admissions can tell you that a public university cant control that. Pell grant eligibility is determined after acceptance. So
long as Virginians, as a whole, are wealthier than Californians, UVA will have fewer pell grant recipients. Thus, when USNWR did this, UVA dropped. no big deal. And before you say UVA should do more to service the poor, it has, with a number of outreach prigrams, and is one of the few publics to participate in Questbridge. So, as long as USNWr continues in this path, the Virginia schools will
be "punished" in the ratings because Virginia a better managed stated. Go figure. Everyone in high ed knows this. OP is either ignorant or a VTech (UVA rival) or MD boister or yet another parent fried because their kid didn't get into UVA so take it out here. Ignore and move on

Nice rant. UVA is now #5. Eight years ago they were #2 and eight years from now they will drop even more.