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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My $.02 is you want to pick a school that someone has heard of but ranking doesn't matter much at that point.

So, pick University of Alabama at 171 over Rowan University also at 171 or Simmons University at 165.[/quote]

Not an answer to your question but obviously this is a very regional strategy. I live in South Jersey and Rowan is where most of the kids' teachers went (undergrad and masters), and everyone knows it has a very good engineering program - and the price is certainly right. [/quote]

I agree with both of the comments above.  If your kid wants to work in a geographic location for the first few years after graduation- for example a lot of kids stay home and save for a few years now due to high housing costs, then some of the regional schools might actually be better than a higher ranked school further away.  We will probably end up deciding between a regional like GMU ( I get it is nationally ranked but it is in the 100s) and higher ranked OOS schools in the 40s and 50s. It will all come down to $ and the program of study.[/quote]

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