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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UNC without a doubt and regardless of the cost differential.

Have you toured the campuses?  UNC wins hands down.  The campus is beautiful and well-kept.  There is a lot of money being poured into it and you can see it everywhere on campus.  Whereas UVA is really run down and it has a strong hard-luck vibe now that it didn't have back when I was a student there.  I wish I could say that UVA has done a good job keeping up appearances but it just hasn't.  Enough said.

There also is a lot to be said for the easy drive to UNC.  A straight shot down 95 to 84 on nice straight interstate highways.  It is pretty much a piece of cake.

Although in this area there are a lot of UVA supporters it is my opinion that UNC has a better national/international profile and name recognition.[/quote]

UNC has a better national representation?  Haha, no.[/quote]

UNC definitely has a better international reputation because they pump out far more research. The Shanghai Ranking ranks UNC 23/33 US/Global while UVA is ranked 59-66/151-200.

Nationally, someone in the Midwest or West may know UNC more because of basketball and Duke. Among academics, they know UNC because of the Research Triangle.

In the Mid-Atlantic/NYC area, UVa is probably considered more prestigious, but that may be entirely based on history and somewhat higher average student quality, and also reading USNews a lot.

Again, the problem with UVA is that its research is very weak for a "top" public school. And this does trickle down to undergrads among research universities with better professors, better TA's, better courses, better programs, and better research opportunities[/quote]

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