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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP Here.

I had been patiently waiting for replies and reading them.

It looks overwhelming opinion is to not pay OOS cost with UVA as an option.

Almost everybody agrees that Umich is better in engineering than Uva.

At this point we are heavily leaning towards Uva. As one poster suggested, save the money for Grad school. If son is really good in engineering, we would need that.

One point I disagree with many posters is picking UMich for CS over Uva. Uva CS is very good, and close DC area provides abundance of opportunity with huge earning potential.

My worry was the other way round. That if my son sticks with core engineering (Mechanical/Aero), whether his prospects would be diminished by picking Uva over Umich.[/quote]

OP - See the salary info. posted upthread. While they are close, Mich does have a bit of an advantage.  Also, the list of companies hiring out of Mich will be substantially better than UVA and UMich also opens doors to west coast jobs (sure COL is higher but in the long run, wealth accumulation is better).

Also, not many kids in tech get a Masters.  You don't really need one if you plan on working in Industry.  Even if you do, at most schools you can get a Masters degree with one more year of school if you plan your courses right.  Academia or a change in focus (i.e. Business or Law) requires a grad degree but the student can fund that themselves after a couple of years of work.  I think most people talking about grad school are parents of kids pursuing non-Tech degrees. 
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