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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the one who said UVA is more prestigious, absolutely not in engineering.

GT is like Ivy League of engineering. UVA is not known for engineering. Indeed, Virginia Tech would be higher status than UVA in engineering. [/quote]
This isn't how undergrad prestige works, that's why grad schools have subject rankings and undergrad has overall rankings. UVa is simply more prestigious for undergrad...[/quote]

Undergrad engineering is not like other major/subject areas, which is why they are generally in separate school. They don’t have broad liberal arts requirements - like foreign language, English, philosophy, etc. It’s why engineering programs are different from typical university rankings.

DC is in an engineering program and his courses requirements only included one humanities course. The rest were math, chemistry, computer and physics courses. DC was shocked they didn’t even have to take an English class and happy about skipping a foreign language.[/quote]
A top 25 school has the same outcomes as T10 engineering schools, that's why I posted the salaries. It has little to do with location because Emory CS grads also make more than GT CS grads. The difference is prestige, the reason GT grads can't get jobs outside the south is because the degree isn't as portable as a UVA or Emory degree. They're more likely to be stuck in the south with lower salaries. This isn't new information. If UVA costs less then it's the obvious choice, if they cost the same it's still the obvious choice. [/quote]

You are delusional with your UVA boosterism and clearly unfamiliar with engineering. While it is true that on paper most ABET certified engineering schools appear similar, the best schools have much stronger students that allow for a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the topic. And Georgia Tech gets some of the best engineering students in the country. It as a perennial top 5 program. And there is no comparison with UVA. Even in Virginia, the top STEM students don't go to UVA. And trust me, any West Coast company hiring engineers is going to be far more impressed with a degree from Georgia Tech than one from UVA. This isn't 1980 anymore. [/quote]
Exactly.

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-engineering

#1 GA Tech
#14 UMD
#22  VA Tech
#24 UVA

I stated up thread, I know several magnet students who are majoring in Eng/CS who applied to GATech, UMD, and some even VATech. No one applied to UVA.[/quote]

There is no adjustment for size (# of engineering graduates) in that ranking.  MIT is ranked 23, which is between VT and UVA.  MIT is obviously considered better, but it is much smaller.   It has 4,500 undergraduates with about 30% majoring in Engineering.  VT has 30,000 undergraduates with 24% majoring in engineering.   So VT has 5.3X as many engineering graduates.[/quote]
Yes exactly, and why do you think VATech has so many more eng graduates than UVA?  Because VAtech has a stronger program so more Eng majors apply to VAtech.[/quote]

You are drawing the wrong conclusions.  [/quote]
The conclusion is that more eng majors [b]apply[/b] to VAtech than UVA.[/quote]

No.  You don't know that from the evidence above.  What you know is that VT has more graduating with engineering majors than UVA.[/quote]

Here is the actual data for Applied/Accepted/Enrolled to Engineering:

Virginia Tech:  21,704 Applied / 11,955 Accepted / 2,880 Enrolled
UVA:  11,604 Applied / 2,053 Accepted / 716 Enrolled

Virginia Tech is a much larger engineering school than UVA.  UVA has a significantly lower acceptance rate and a higher yield rate.[/quote]

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