UVA vs Penn State

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Anonymous wrote:Penn State is ranked higher than UVa for engineering. Better on-campus hiring. People are in a UVa bubble here

This. Penn state if you’re looking for engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:What the hell is UVA? I grew up in California and and live in the Northeast. No one at my kid's private ever talks about this school. Why is this a thread?

Some people out west know about UVA, but I don't think it's all that highly regarded by most Californians, not like it is in the DC area, which is fine. It makes sense that a state school is more highly regarded in the region than outside of it. Only schools like Cal, UCLA and Michigan probably have a high national profile.

-40 yr CA resident

Outside the DC bubble, people don’t know Cal on the East Coast.

Whatever your petty squabble…that’s just not true. Now most know it as Berkeley.

How do you know this? Plenty of people know UVa and hasn’t heard of Cal. They’re provincial, just like folks that don’t know UVa

I mean hard to really know, but here's a couple of lists:

https://poetsandquants.com/2023/10/18/ranking-the-worlds-most-popular-colleges-universities/

Berkeley #7
Penn State #13
UVA N/a


https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140812131005-5832895-ranking-colleges-as-brands-using-big-data-textual-analysis

Berkeley #3
UVA #19

https://www.bestcollegereviews.org/features/the-30-most-influential-colleges-and-universities-of-the-past-century/

Berkeley #5
UVA: N/a

You don’t get it. Outside of your college obsessed bubble, people don’t look at lists like this.

I don't really care about such a list, either. But, I was responding to the poster who claims outside of the east coast, most people have never heard of Cal.

And when California posters stated that they either haven't heard of or disregard UVA, the UVA booster claimed the Californians to be "provincial".

I guess people all over the world, outside the east coast, are provincial, and only those who know about UVA are sophisticated.

How can you be sophisticated if you don’t know UVa?

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I know many in the DMV that swear by UVA. I understand its a great school.

I'm unsure of the vitriol if your young adult picks another school other that UVA.

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very different vibes on campus. which one feels better? just go there.

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agreed!

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Anonymous wrote:Penn State is ranked higher than UVa for engineering. Better on-campus hiring. People are in a UVa bubble here

Oh, puhleeze. 32 and 35 by USNWR. Hardly a significant difference. And since 60 to 80 percent of all students change their majors at least once, wouldn't it be wiser to be in the better received school? My own aerospace engineering kid switched to poli sci at UVA and is now in law school. I am so glad he picked uva (so was our financial planner!).

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Anonymous wrote:Penn State is ranked higher than UVa for engineering. Better on-campus hiring. People are in a UVa bubble here

Oh, puhleeze. 32 and 35 by USNWR. Hardly a significant difference. And since 60 to 80 percent of all students change their majors at least once, wouldn't it be wiser to be in the better received school? My own aerospace engineering kid switched to poli sci at UVA and is now in law school. I am so glad he picked uva (so was our financial planner!).

Undergrad engineering is Penn State 19, UVA 37.

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Anonymous wrote:Penn State is ranked higher than UVa for engineering. Better on-campus hiring. People are in a UVa bubble here

Oh, puhleeze. 32 and 35 by USNWR. Hardly a significant difference. And since 60 to 80 percent of all students change their majors at least once, wouldn't it be wiser to be in the better received school? My own aerospace engineering kid switched to poli sci at UVA and is now in law school. I am so glad he picked uva (so was our financial planner!).

Undergrad engineering is Penn State 19, UVA 37.

Penn State has critical mass in Engineering. UVA doesn't cover all areas as comprehensively. Penn State engineering research is $386M per year vs $66M at UVA. Electrical Engineering R&D, for instance, is 11X higher at Penn State.

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For engineering definately Penn.

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Anonymous wrote:For engineering definately Penn.

. . . which isn't an option

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Generally speaking, as a hiring manager, I have been much more impressed with UVA grads than Penn State grads. UVA kids tend to come across as much more sophisticated and polished than Penn State students.

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Well clearly UVA is more selective. But Penn State is a perfectly fine school. Surprised VA Tech isn’t in the conversation for engineering.

Go with whatever school he likes the most.

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Anonymous wrote:Penn State is ranked higher than UVa for engineering. Better on-campus hiring. People are in a UVa bubble here

Oh, puhleeze. 32 and 35 by USNWR. Hardly a significant difference. And since 60 to 80 percent of all students change their majors at least once, wouldn't it be wiser to be in the better received school? My own aerospace engineering kid switched to poli sci at UVA and is now in law school. I am so glad he picked uva (so was our financial planner!).

Penn State to avoid blow hard parents like the above poster.

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Anonymous wrote:Penn State is ranked higher than UVa for engineering. Better on-campus hiring. People are in a UVa bubble here

Oh, puhleeze. 32 and 35 by USNWR. Hardly a significant difference. And since 60 to 80 percent of all students change their majors at least once, wouldn't it be wiser to be in the better received school? My own aerospace engineering kid switched to poli sci at UVA and is now in law school. I am so glad he picked uva (so was our financial planner!).

Undergrad engineering is Penn State 19, UVA 37.

Penn State has critical mass in Engineering. UVA doesn't cover all areas as comprehensively. Penn State engineering research is $386M per year vs $66M at UVA. Electrical Engineering R&D, for instance, is 11X higher at Penn State.

If the question is engineering, then Penn State. That's an easy call. In addition to more engineering majors and far more funding, its alumni are much more cohesive and loyal than UVA (notwithstanding the UVA boosters that go nuts in this little dcurbanmom bubble). In the real world, Penn State is up there with Michigan in alums who would give their left but to help out any other alum.

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Anonymous wrote:Penn State is ranked higher than UVa for engineering. Better on-campus hiring. People are in a UVa bubble here

Oh, puhleeze. 32 and 35 by USNWR. Hardly a significant difference. And since 60 to 80 percent of all students change their majors at least once, wouldn't it be wiser to be in the better received school? My own aerospace engineering kid switched to poli sci at UVA and is now in law school. I am so glad he picked uva (so was our financial planner!).

Undergrad engineering is Penn State 19, UVA 37.

Penn State has critical mass in Engineering. UVA doesn't cover all areas as comprehensively. Penn State engineering research is $386M per year vs $66M at UVA. Electrical Engineering R&D, for instance, is 11X higher at Penn State.

If the question is engineering, then Penn State. That's an easy call. In addition to more engineering majors and far more funding, its alumni are much more cohesive and loyal than UVA (notwithstanding the UVA boosters that go nuts in this little dcurbanmom bubble). In the real world, Penn State is up there with Michigan in alums who would give their left but to help out any other alum.

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