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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm going to vote for JMU. UVA is an R1 research university and [b]W&M is an R2 research university. Both have many faculty that are focused on RESEARCH[/b]. The people who get to interact with those professors are graduate students. JMU is a teaching university - there are more opportunities to interact with faculty, faculty care about teaching as number 1 priority, and there are more opportunities to do undergraduate research. Yes, CS is a rapidly changing field, but you can look at the core classes offered for the undergraduate majors and see that they're all similar. It's not like the JMU undergrads are being left behind because the professors aren't doing cutting edge research. [/quote] I disagree. W&M is ranked 4th for best undergraduate teaching nationally, tied with Princeton. UVA is ranked 44th. JMU is ranked 4th in Southern regional schools. We know one W&M sophomore--not a Monroe or 1693 scholar-- and they're doing really exciting research on a cutting-edge bio topic. [/quote] We saw that too and were going to apply for CS. However, the salary outcomes for W&M were not as good as UVA or even Virginia Tech (which has lower salary outcomes). That seems to be a disconnect I couldn't understand. If their teaching is so great and the entering cohort has similar stats to the corresponding UVA cohort, shouldn't earnings outcome be the same? One case say that the same companies don't go to hire at W&M.. Why not? It's only about 2 hours away and if there is really a great demand for CS as they claim, why wouldn't employers go to W&M and hire the W&M kids who went a school that teaches about as good as Princeton? In the end, we decided not to apply to W&M. [/quote]
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