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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you kidding? Does UTK have any strong departments or programs?

It's certainly a bottom-half, probably a bottom-quartile flagship. Fine, for sure, but not remotely "elite."[/quote]

Apparently they're #3 in SCM, which is their most popular business program, i believe.

Also, their Nuclear Engineering program isn't too shabby, especially being right next to Oak Ridge National Lab[/quote]

I'm a high school counselor in VA and we recently learned through a press release that UTK is being added to Colleges Worth Your Money. According to the release the book is adding 10 universities and UTK is one of the 10 new schools. Speaking on just our students, we have observed more students applying over the past few years. Large publics throughout the south are generally becoming more popular from what we see.[/quote]

Seems understandable... I've seen that w/ my older two DC.

For out of state, some of the applications went out to: FSU; Clemson; USC-Columbia; Ole Miss; UTK, and zero interest in schools in the northeast. The crap that was going on in Columbia w/ the Israel-Palestinian issue did not help endear my kids in that direction.

I know many of the "elite schools" are in the northeast, but both of my DC had no interest there, the desire was to find a decent school w/ others that they could identify with...

We'll see if any of the southern schools get my money.

DC#1 wound up at UVA; 
DC#2 is looking at Penn State and awaiting on VT and UVA to release.[/quote]

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