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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's another take:

W&M was a private school that fell on hard times and became a state university.  Virginia residents should count their blessings for this!

Most states have a flagship public, a technical public and then a second-tier level of "directional" schools.  Think SC/Clemson, UNC/NCSstate, etc, as the flagship/public technicals and Coastal Carolina and East Carolina as the directional schools for SC and NC, respectively.

For undergraduate and some graduate programs, W&M offers additional teaching and enrollment capacity that UVA does not or cannot offer for a flagship school.

VT is a technical public that has taken on some flagship functions because of the limited enrollments  of UVA and W&M.

This unique situation of having 3 national level universities in the first or first plus tier is what muddies the water. But who cares!  It's a happy problem!  And VT is getting stronger thanks to Mr. Bezos with Amazon HQ2 and alumni in various fields (GE CEO, for example). VT is not just Michael Vick or the tragedy (although frankly the colors are horrible and the mascot is a giant turkey, but then again UVA's and W&M's colors and mascots are not great either).

In any event, the presence of UVA, W&M and VT, as well stronger 2nd tier schools such as JMU, VCU and GMU, make VA a much stronger location for public universities.  We chose VA over MD because of this: MD has UMCP, but there is no technical school, W&M is much stronger than SMC, and would anyone really compare the MD 2nd tier schools of Towson, UMBC, Salisbury as being comparable to the VA 2nd tier schools?

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UMCP is essentially the technical school of Maryland, and thats what it started out as (UMD - Baltimore was the flagship initially).

In terms of second tier schools, UMBC is better than all other than perhaps JMU in liberal arts[/quote]

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