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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Penn State is ranked higher than UVa for engineerin[/b]g. Better on-campus hiring. People are in a UVa bubble here[/quote]

Oh, puhleeze.  32 and 35 by USNWR.  Hardly a significant difference.  And since 60 to 80 percent of all students change their majors at least once, wouldn't it be wiser to be in the better received school?  My own aerospace engineering kid switched to poli sci at UVA and is now in law school.  I am so glad he picked uva (so was our financial planner!).[/quote]

Undergrad engineering is Penn State 19, UVA 37.[/quote]

Penn State has critical mass in Engineering.  UVA doesn't cover all areas as comprehensively.  Penn State engineering research is $386M per year vs $66M at UVA.  Electrical Engineering R&D, for instance, is 11X higher at Penn State.[/quote]

If the question is engineering,  then Penn State.  That's an easy call.  In addition to more engineering majors and far more funding,  its alumni are much more cohesive and loyal than UVA  (notwithstanding the UVA boosters that go nuts in this little dcurbanmom bubble).  In the real world,  Penn State is up there with Michigan in alums who would give their left but to help out any other alum.[/quote]

* left nut.   :)[/quote]

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