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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ohio State
U of Miami in OH
U of Texas
Berkeley
UNC
UVA
Wm + Mary
U of Cincy (top architecture program and top music program)
UCLA
UC system of CA (sev'l of the schools such as UC -San Diego)[/quote]

good list.
I'd add Penn State (i know i know shit press, etc) is decent as well and has extremely good recruiting for its reputation. Ridiculous amount of PSU grads in the Bos-Wash area in a lot of industries and On-Campus Recruiting is comparable if not better than many on your list. [/quote]
I wondered what the current crop of kids thought about PSU. I think we'll skip it. There are too many other good choices and I think PSU has a ways to fall before it makes its climb back up the ranks. [/quote]

I was up at PSU last fall to speak at an alum event, and while there is a general perception problem in terms of public optics, I'm not sure if it has affected large hiring companies.

OCI is still quite strong and tied with J&J, P&G, Big4 accounting, Defense contractor engineering are still quite deep.

I do not think the scandal has affected top students getting offers from companies that come and recruit on campus.

A lot of it has to do with the fact that PSU is the largest public in the mid atlantic/northeast that's rated as highly as it is so your 'middle class' 'upper-middle class' corporate employers from the north east, mid-atlantic, and midwest love going there to recruit.

P.S. Not a shill of the school. I wouldn't go there if i had to do it again, but that's because I would never go to any public college in this country. Public high school is one thing, but public universities i feel are meat markets. I'd take the 6 figure debt and go to carnegie mellon, Hopkins, Georgetown, tufts  (I was not ivy caliber, got into schools a tier below but didn't think it was worth the price).

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Yeah lets all listen to this guy. He says that UVA and UNC are "meat markets." He's a Penn State graduate so he must be real smart.[/quote]

uva has 14k undergrads and unc has 18k undergrads.

when i used that term, I meant it as 'large schools/huge student bodies'. My two best friends went to Penn and Cornell and they both would not go back there for undergrad due to UG student body size, and I tend to agree after my experience and discussing it with their (and other experiences).

Perhaps to you that's not large, but i'm just giving my 2 cents of my experience and my friends' experiences at schools with UG bodies in the 5digit range.

My two other siblings went to AWS schools and had a much better UG experience.

UNC and UVA are AMAZING schools but don't tell me that they are not 'large'. Sure they're half the size of PSU, but that's still pretty fucking big.

When I made my comment i forgot about William & Mary. There's a public with a great student body size. [/quote]

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