UT Austin vs UVA?

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They are both amazing academic schools, If a recruited athlete- look where the student athlete will get the most support. Look at the majors from others on the roster. Who are the coaches? Where does the student athlete want to attend? Will the parents be able to see the athlete play based on location?

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Anonymous wrote:UVA-more prestige

What do you mean by that? Serious question.

Not PP but UVA wins a lot more international scholarships and fellowships for its students. UVA has double the Rhodes Scholars. etc.

UT students have been awarded more Fulbright Scholarships than UVA over the past 10 years.

Cute that you picked a ten year category. You might have also mentioned that UT has double the students of UVA at 51,000, ergo more Fulbright applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:They are both amazing academic schools, If a recruited athlete- look where the student athlete will get the most support. Look at the majors from others on the roster. Who are the coaches? Where does the student athlete want to attend? Will the parents be able to see the athlete play based on location?

This! I don't know why OP is even seeking our feedback, because the experience of a recruited athlete is a very, very particular subset that I doubt any of us can speak to. This is not a typical "school vs. school" discussion.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA-more prestige

No way. UT Austin is a global powerhouse and more recognized

I think UT has more notable alumni than UVA. UVA notable alumni from law school also seem disproportionate compared to undergraduate. UT is larger, though.

Not according to wiki:

Alumni


As of December 2014, the University of Virginia has 221,000 living graduates.[15] According to a study by researchers at the Darden School and Stanford University, UVA alumni have founded over 65,000 companies which have employed 2.3 million people worldwide with annual global revenues of $1.6 trillion.[15] Extrapolated numbers show companies founded by UVA alumni have created 371,000 jobs in the state of Virginia alone.[15] The relatively small amount that the Commonwealth gives UVA for support was determined by the study to have a tremendous return on investment for the state.[15]

Rhodes Scholarships are international postgraduate awards given to students to study at the University of Oxford. Since the scholarship program began in 1904, UVA has had fifty-five Rhodes Scholars,[214] the most of any university in the American South, eighth-most overall, and third-most outside the Ivy League (behind Stanford University and the United States Military Academy (West Point)).[14]

Eight NASA astronauts and launch directors are UVA alumni: Karl Gordon Henize, Bill Nelson, Thomas Marshburn, Leland Melvin, Jeff Wisoff, Kathryn Thornton, Patrick Forrester; and Michael Leinbach.

The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded to eight UVA alumni: Edward P. Jones, Ron Suskind, Virginius Dabney, Claudia Emerson, Henry Taylor, Lane DeGregory, George Rodrigue, and Michael Vitez.

Government leaders include 28th President of the United States Woodrow Wilson, former Special Counsel and FBI Director Robert Mueller; NATO Secretary General Javier Solana; U.S. Speaker of the House Robert M. T. Hunter; widely known United States Senators Harry Byrd, Robert F. Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy; first African American Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court Leroy Hassell; Delaware Court of Chancery Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster; United States Supreme Court Justices Howell Edmunds Jackson, James Clark McReynolds, and Stanley Forman Reed; President of the Supreme Court of Israel, Asher Grunis; and Premier and President of the First Republic of China, Yan Huiqing.

Thirty U.S. state or U.S. territorial Governors have graduated from UVA, including fifteen Governors of Virginia,[note 3] and fifteen Governors of other U.S. states and territories as well.[note 4]

UVA's alumni ranks also include others who have achieved widespread fame: computer science pioneer John Backus; polar explorer Richard Byrd; scientists Walter Reed, Stuart Schreiber, Daniel Barringer, Richard Lutz, and Francis Collins; artists Edgar Allan Poe and Georgia O'Keeffe; musicians Stephen Malkmus and Boyd Tinsley; self-made billionaire Paul Tudor Jones; national news anchors Katie Couric and Brit Hume; actors Tina Fey and Ben McKenzie; Team USA Olympic team captains John Harkes, Dawn Staley, and Claudio Reyna; NBA All-Star MVP Ralph Sampson and the NBA's eighth ever 50–40–90 shooter Malcolm Brogdon; and two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champions Becky Sauerbrunn, Emily Sonnett and Morgan Brian as well as professional soccer player Danielle Colaprico.



Also UVA's law school ranks between 6 and 8 in the nation. My DS would kill to go there.

Geez. Just take a line and do real comparisons. UVA claims 8 Pulitzer Prize winners. UT 25. https://journalism100.utexas.edu/pulitzer/

Compare Olympians and gold medalists, professional athletes, actors, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA-more prestige

What do you mean by that? Serious question.

Not PP but UVA wins a lot more international scholarships and fellowships for its students. UVA has double the Rhodes Scholars. etc.

UT students have been awarded more Fulbright Scholarships than UVA over the past 10 years.

Cute that you picked a ten year category. You might have also mentioned that UT has double the students of UVA at 51,000, ergo more Fulbright applicants.

Cute? You want to cherry pick a specific year and call that fair? I chose 10 years NOT to cherry pick a year.

[Anonymous]

Reality is UT Austin is a tier below UVA in terms of selectivity and prestige

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Anonymous wrote:Reality is UT Austin is a tier below UVA in terms of selectivity and prestige

If I were hiring and choosing between graduates of these two schools, I wouldn't weight one higher than the other for education. If they were competing with an MIT graduate, I would weight the MIT graduate education higher.

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Anonymous wrote:I know five families who are leaving Austin because of the homeless and disease problem and the Californians moving in. It's not what it used to be. Read up on it before you decide. One of these families is even in a gated community but they are fed up. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/31/texas-austin-homeless-camping-ban/

This is 100% accurate.

Austin is becoming something different, but still something very dynamic. Let's be honest here - Tesla relocated to Austin. It was never relocating to Charlottesville.

That doesn't mean it's a good place to live or go to school.

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Anonymous wrote:Reality is UT Austin is a tier below UVA in terms of selectivity and prestige

These posts are just worthless. Define "tier". What do you mean by "Selectivity" (UT uses a unique and very different admissions criteria. My DC who isn't from either state would have a harder time getting into UT)? What do you mean by "Prestige"? And then after you define what you are trying to say, provide any evidence to support your assertion. I really wonder why anyone would think you had something valuable to say about higher education.

[Anonymous]

I would prefer UT. DS would never go for it. In-laws have scared him into avoiding all Southern locals.

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Anonymous wrote:I would prefer UT. DS would never go for it. In-laws have scared him into avoiding all Southern locals.

*locales

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Anonymous wrote:I know five families who are leaving Austin because of the homeless and disease problem and the Californians moving in. It's not what it used to be. Read up on it before you decide. One of these families is even in a gated community but they are fed up. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/31/texas-austin-homeless-camping-ban/

This is 100% accurate.

Austin is becoming something different, but still something very dynamic. Let's be honest here - Tesla relocated to Austin. It was never relocating to Charlottesville.

That doesn't mean it's a good place to live or go to school.

Nor does it mean it is not. Everyone should choose schools based on what they are looking for.

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Anonymous wrote:Reality is UT Austin is a tier below UVA in terms of selectivity and prestige

These posts are just worthless. Define "tier". What do you mean by "Selectivity" (UT uses a unique and very different admissions criteria. My DC who isn't from either state would have a harder time getting into UT)? What do you mean by "Prestige"? And then after you define what you are trying to say, provide any evidence to support your assertion. I really wonder why anyone would think you had something valuable to say about higher education.

If I have to explain myself further it’s you who doesn’t know anything about higher education.

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Anonymous wrote:Reality is UT Austin is a tier below UVA in terms of selectivity and prestige

These posts are just worthless. Define "tier". What do you mean by "Selectivity" (UT uses a unique and very different admissions criteria. My DC who isn't from either state would have a harder time getting into UT)? What do you mean by "Prestige"? And then after you define what you are trying to say, provide any evidence to support your assertion. I really wonder why anyone would think you had something valuable to say about higher education.

If I have to explain myself further it’s you who doesn’t know anything about higher education.

You are essentially saying: "Trust me, I'm smarter than you are. Just ask me."

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is every bit as good as UTA for business.

UVA McIntire is much better in fact.

The catch is you have to apply for the business program in 2nd year.
The acceptance rate to the program is around 55-60%

Big risk but it's much better than UTA.

I would not choose either for Business especially when UTA is OOS
People should know what they are talking about.

UVA McIntire is not "much better in fact". I do dislike rankings, but UT is ranked 7 in higher rated in USNWR, vs T8 for UVA, so there is that. UT is a direct admit, which makes it better for those who really want to concentrate in business for most of 4 years vs. 2 years. This is particularly helpful in areas like accounting, if that is what you want to do.

You are wrong. In 2021, McIntire's B.S. in Commerce once again ranked as the 2nd best undergraduate business program overall in the U.S. by business education website Poets&Quants, and was ranked 1st in the U.S. by alumni satisfaction for student experience, maintaining a top three spot on the list for the fourth consecutive year.

McIntire School of Commerce - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › McIntire_School_of_Co...

2nd best is too much of stretch, but it's a level above UT's McComb

Here is USNWR ranking for UT McCombs:

7 Overall (ahead of McIntire)
1 in Accounting
2 in Production Operations
4 in Finance
4 in Management Information Systems
4 in Real Estate
4 in Marketing
5 in Management
6 in Insurance Risk
6 in Quantitative Analysis
7 in Business Analytics
8 in Supply Chain
9 in Entrepreneurship
10 in International Business