Similar career destination and income outcome for less. |
Except not. The vast majority of Chicago's depts. are ranked higher than UVA's, which translates into national prestige. |
Didn't John Wayne Gacy go to Chicago? |
No, but Leopold and Loeb did. |
1. No. 2. The Unabomber went to Harvard. What's your point? |
Actually, his brain did — but only post-execution. |
When did U of C start slumming? |
Thanks for making me laugh hard. Good one ![]() |
How hard is this? If you can’t tell or don’t value the difference, don’t go to Chicago. Doesn’t mean there isn’t a difference. |
Except Chicago grads make only about $5000 more per year than UVA grads per payscale and govt stats. Hard to justify a $300000 tuition with that kind of outcome. |
Ok, let's look at this employability ranking, which was done by an HR Consultancy and looks at the universities hiring managers at top companies consider the best preparation for jobs at their companies.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universities/graduate-employability-top-universities-united-states-ranked-employers UChicago comes in at #18. UVA is not in the rankings at all (it goes to 150 for the full list). |
You don't have to justify why you were or are at UVA. Own it. |
For you, perhaps. But no one is asking you to send your kid to Chicago or to explain why you aren’t. For me, it is easy to justify but I have a different kid, different values, different resources so what makes sense for my family probably doesn’t for yours. But there’s a difference between hard (for you) to justify and unjustifiable. |
Forbes Best Value Colleges:
UVA = #21 UC = #74 'nuff said. https://www.forbes.com/value-colleges/list/ |
Why no. Even if everyone agreed that ROI was the best metric for evaluating the “value” of an education, there’s still the issue that the “I” will vary dramatically from family to family (in state vs OOS tuition, FA). And, of course, the “R” will depend on the student’s abilities and aspirations. |