Villanova vs. UVA
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Anonymous
| If USNWR ranked Villanova as a national u, rather than regional, it would rank around 50. UVA is ranked around 25. So I’m told by people who should know. |
Anonymous
Villanova is ranked nationally by USNWR - #49. UVA is #25. |
Anonymous
| Snobbiest rich people I know sent kids to Villanova and Duke. I think Nova is a pseudo Duke and/or Notre Dame backup school? Type of families that don't consider for one second a large public university. |
Anonymous
UVA is ranked high[er] because of its research budget. Undergrad vs undergrad Villanova is a better experience, hence why they can charge $70,000 after rejecting over 70% of applicants. |
Anonymous
That's a ridiculous statement. How did you cook that "undergrad vs undergrad" bit up? |
Anonymous
| According to the U.S. Government College Scorecard, Villanova Grads make nearly $14K more post graduation and a higher percentage of graduates make more than high school graduates. UVA has lower debt post graduation, but Villanova has a slightly higher percentage of graduates paying down debt. UVA has slightly higher graduation rates and standardized test scores. |
Anonymous
| If you are looking at schools and only worried about which school is better instead of which school is a better fit you will be really disappointed and your kid will probably not enjoy college. |
Anonymous
| Is this a serious question? I'm not a UVA booster, but everyone knows it is a ton better than Villa "nowhere" as it is called. Villa "nowhere" is for Catholics who don't get into any better Catholic University and/or people from Philly/NJ who want to stay close to home. |
Anonymous
Yeah, no. |
Anonymous
Really, that is your contribution? |
Anonymous
| If someone told me they turned down UVA to go to Villanova because they had carefully evaluated and liked it more and thought it a better fit, I would think that is certainly OK if the finances work. But if they wanted to turn down Princeton for Northeastern State College, I would try to work on their thinking process. |
Anonymous
Well, there may be some truth to it. If you rated schools on a 1 to 10 scale with 10 being the most undergraduate and teaching focused (Williams might be a 10 and Arizona State a 1), Villanova would probably be something like a 7 and UVA a 5. |
Anonymous
| The families that want their kids at Villanova aren't budget shoppers looking at "value" public colleges like UVA. They're looking at Vandy, Duke, BC, Georgetown, Trinity and Villanova. |
Anonymous
Isn’t that more about where grass work? I would expect Villanova grads to be in Phili or NYC, where there’s a high cost of living and higher salaries. |
Anonymous
It could be. I am not aware of a study that adjusts for cost of living. But keep in mind that DC, where a number of UVA graduates end up, has a higher cost of living than Philadelphia. What I have seen indicates that the mix of majors at a school plays a huge factor in graduate earnings, at least in early career. Engineering graduates from good schools make something on the order of 1.6X what liberal arts graduates make. And males also make more than females (unfortunately), so schools with higher male to female ratios also get a boost from that. There was a study by a research center at Georgetown that adjusts for the mix of majors. It has Villanova ranked quite high. https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/college-rankings/#interactive |