MD state schools vs. VA state schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. What of the other schools in MD? Are they strong in any specific programs? Are they comparable to JMU, GMU, etc. I don't know anything about Towson, UMBC, etc. It seems VA just has more options that are at least good, if not very, very good.

#1 Criminology and criminal justice
#20 Economics
top 40 government and politics
#11 hearing and speech sciences
Highly ranked in business, engineering, cyber security, public health

#16 public institution in the nation by Forbes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. What of the other schools in MD? Are they strong in any specific programs? Are they comparable to JMU, GMU, etc. I don't know anything about Towson, UMBC, etc. It seems VA just has more options that are at least good, if not very, very good.

#1 Criminology and criminal justice
#20 Economics
top 40 government and politics
#11 hearing and speech sciences
Highly ranked in business, engineering, cyber security, public health

#16 public institution in the nation by Forbes

ok. But on the Forbes list,#4 is UVA and #6 is W&M-- and the top 2, plus #5 are service academies. So VA has 2 of the top 3 for kids who are not interested in the military.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. What of the other schools in MD? Are they strong in any specific programs? Are they comparable to JMU, GMU, etc. I don't know anything about Towson, UMBC, etc. It seems VA just has more options that are at least good, if not very, very good.

#1 Criminology and criminal justice
#20 Economics
top 40 government and politics
#11 hearing and speech sciences
Highly ranked in business, engineering, cyber security, public health

#16 public institution in the nation by Forbes

ok. But on the Forbes list,#4 is UVA and #6 is W&M-- and the top 2, plus #5 are service academies. So VA has 2 of the top 3 for kids who are not interested in the military.

Also VA Tech cracks the top 25 too

[Anonymous]

Maryland has, in addition to UMCP:

St Mary's college
Towson university
Univ. of MD Baltimore county

[Anonymous]

This thread is a yawn fest

[Anonymous]

St Marys College is having a bit of a rough patch i think but has the potential to be a nice SLAC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has been asked before--so many times. No contest between VA and MD. To state the obvious, UVA and William and Mary are "public Ivies". There are tons of kids from nova in those two schools (which are very different from one another). It is very competitive and UVA, in the past 10 years, has become ultra popular. There are some other ok schools in VA. And the community college system is great: relatively easy-to-achieve guaranteed--yes, guaranteed-- admission into schools if certain criteria are met. Caution, and a serious one: UVA, obviously, along with William and Mary are associated with Thomas Jefferson. As our society enters a higher level of sensitivity and questions things, query whether that will be a lightning rod moving forward. The schools are trying to do better, diversity wise.

Name me one field that UVA and Willaim and Marry is better than UMD. Except for business I think UMD has stronger program in STEM than VA schools.

JMU/GMU are not in the same league as UMD.

Well, I work as an engineer in Maryland and have a lot more engineers from VT than from UMD.

I was only referring to the so called "public Ivies" in VA. You are right, UMD and VT are comparable in engineering. Both are better than UVA in STEM. UMD has a stronger computer science program than VT though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. What of the other schools in MD? Are they strong in any specific programs? Are they comparable to JMU, GMU, etc. I don't know anything about Towson, UMBC, etc. It seems VA just has more options that are at least good, if not very, very good.

How about St. Mary's? Isn't that a public honors college? Our DS is very interested and we're in VA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is a yawn fest

And you're here why?

[Anonymous]

Virginia has more choices. That said, local employers are recruiting from UVA, UMCP, UMBC, VT, JMU etc. so in the end it matters more how you do at your chosen state college, than if you ended up at VA or MD in-state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Virginia Tech, UVA, W&M, JMU vs. UMD. That's about it. Not a hard choice.

Don't slam me but GMU is also close by and decent (which is important because you never know if you'll have a kid who wants to stay close to home).

And the George Mason poster is back!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has been asked before--so many times. No contest between VA and MD. To state the obvious, UVA and William and Mary are "public Ivies". There are tons of kids from nova in those two schools (which are very different from one another). It is very competitive and UVA, in the past 10 years, has become ultra popular. There are some other ok schools in VA. And the community college system is great: relatively easy-to-achieve guaranteed--yes, guaranteed-- admission into schools if certain criteria are met. Caution, and a serious one: UVA, obviously, along with William and Mary are associated with Thomas Jefferson. As our society enters a higher level of sensitivity and questions things, query whether that will be a lightning rod moving forward. The schools are trying to do better, diversity wise.

Name me one field that UVA and Willaim and Marry is better than UMD. Except for business I think UMD has stronger program in STEM than VA schools.

JMU/GMU are not in the same league as UMD.

You can add VT and UMW to that statement as well....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. What of the other schools in MD? Are they strong in any specific programs? Are they comparable to JMU, GMU, etc. I don't know anything about Towson, UMBC, etc. It seems VA just has more options that are at least good, if not very, very good.

#1 Criminology and criminal justice
#20 Economics
top 40 government and politics
#11 hearing and speech sciences
Highly ranked in business, engineering, cyber security, public health

#16 public institution in the nation by Forbes

ok. But on the Forbes list,#4 is UVA and #6 is W&M-- and the top 2, plus #5 are service academies. So VA has 2 of the top 3 for kids who are not interested in the military.

Also VA Tech cracks the top 25 too

In what? Highest acceptance rates? GMU is better than VT....

[Anonymous]

I think VA schools win. In MD, sure UMCP is great, but UMBC also has some really strong programs- particularly computer science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. What of the other schools in MD? Are they strong in any specific programs? Are they comparable to JMU, GMU, etc. I don't know anything about Towson, UMBC, etc. It seems VA just has more options that are at least good, if not very, very good.

#1 Criminology and criminal justice
#20 Economics
top 40 government and politics
#11 hearing and speech sciences
Highly ranked in business, engineering, cyber security, public health

#16 public institution in the nation by Forbes

ok. But on the Forbes list,#4 is UVA and #6 is W&M-- and the top 2, plus #5 are service academies. So VA has 2 of the top 3 for kids who are not interested in the military.

Also VA Tech cracks the top 25 too

In what? Highest acceptance rates? GMU is better than VT....

GMU is better than VT for what, Criminal Justice Studies by Examination? Sorry, GMU poster; saying it dozens of times doesn't make it so.