Anonymous
06/07/2025 03:01
Subject: 60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:VT is just trying to stay competitive with UVA and W&M. Its America price equals prestige in the mind of many, especially the DCUM crowd.
Plus great food is one of the things that makes them stand out and JMU is knocking at the door to become VA’s third best public school.
Tech would be exactly on par with JMU if it weren’t for their engineering school.
VTs business school is world's better than JMU too.
JMU showed up in the top 20 among public schools in the WSJ list of highest incomes for graduates working in accounting and management consulting. VT only for management consulting.
VT also didn't show up in the top 20 for graduate salaries in technology, engineering, data science, or software development in the WSJ lists.
Yet WSJ ranked VA Tech #1 overall of all Virginia schools.
Let me see, pay levels of actual graduates vs a list put together to try to compete with USNWR.
Anonymous
06/06/2025 22:57
Subject: 60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:VT is just trying to stay competitive with UVA and W&M. Its America price equals prestige in the mind of many, especially the DCUM crowd.
Plus great food is one of the things that makes them stand out and JMU is knocking at the door to become VA’s third best public school.
Tech would be exactly on par with JMU if it weren’t for their engineering school.
VTs business school is world's better than JMU too.
JMU showed up in the top 20 among public schools in the WSJ list of highest incomes for graduates working in accounting and management consulting. VT only for management consulting.
VT also didn't show up in the top 20 for graduate salaries in technology, engineering, data science, or software development in the WSJ lists.
Yet WSJ ranked VA Tech #1 overall of all Virginia schools.
Anonymous
06/06/2025 22:37
Subject: 60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:VT is just trying to stay competitive with UVA and W&M. Its America price equals prestige in the mind of many, especially the DCUM crowd.
Plus great food is one of the things that makes them stand out and JMU is knocking at the door to become VA’s third best public school.
Tech would be exactly on par with JMU if it weren’t for their engineering school.
VTs business school is world's better than JMU too.
JMU showed up in the top 20 among public schools in the WSJ list of highest incomes for graduates working in accounting and management consulting. VT only for management consulting.
VT also didn't show up in the top 20 for graduate salaries in technology, engineering, data science, or software development in the WSJ lists.
Anonymous
06/06/2025 22:33
Subject: 60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:VT is just trying to stay competitive with UVA and W&M. Its America price equals prestige in the mind of many, especially the DCUM crowd.
Plus great food is one of the things that makes them stand out and JMU is knocking at the door to become VA’s third best public school.
Tech would be exactly on par with JMU if it weren’t for their engineering school.
VTs business school is world's better than JMU too.
JMU showed up in the top 20 among public schools in the WSJ list of highest incomes for graduates working in accounting and management consulting. VT only for management consulting.
Anonymous
06/06/2025 19:42
Subject: 60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:VT is just trying to stay competitive with UVA and W&M. Its America price equals prestige in the mind of many, especially the DCUM crowd.
Plus great food is one of the things that makes them stand out and JMU is knocking at the door to become VA’s third best public school.
Tech would be exactly on par with JMU if it weren’t for their engineering school.
VTs business school is world's better than JMU too.
Anonymous
06/06/2025 19:08
Subject: 60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
Anonymous wrote:VT is just trying to stay competitive with UVA and W&M. Its America price equals prestige in the mind of many, especially the DCUM crowd.
Plus great food is one of the things that makes them stand out and JMU is knocking at the door to become VA’s third best public school.
Tech would be exactly on par with JMU if it weren’t for their engineering school.
Anonymous
06/06/2025 19:03
Subject: 60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
Anonymous wrote:Are they building more dorms?
$10K is cheap for dorms. I think Mason is around $13,000, so $14,000 in a couple of years does not sound crazy.
Land is way more pricey by GMU than by Tech.
Anonymous
06/06/2025 17:46
Subject: 60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
Anonymous wrote:Are they building more dorms?
$10K is cheap for dorms. I think Mason is around $13,000, so $14,000 in a couple of years does not sound crazy.
Thats crazy mine are at ivies and pay less for dorms and they have singles
Anonymous
06/06/2025 15:46
Subject: 60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
My VT kid eats better there than she does at home. I despise grocery shopping and cooking so I am glad to pay it.
Anonymous
06/06/2025 14:34
Subject: Re:60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This reflects the cost of food and housing generally. How exactly would a school get these things cheaper than everyone else in the community?
True, housing cost have gone up....generally as housing on the open market has gone up in price, but we're talking about on-campus housing which has been in VT's ownership for who know for how long. Had they been smart, they'd refinanced the loans on those during the low-rate years and cost of housing should have done down, not up.
Why should they offer housing at bellow market rate? The local slum lords hold more sway than parents who will be gone in anther couple years. At base the issue is that government really doesn't subsidize higher education the way it did for previous generations. If the school can charge more, they will.
Anonymous
06/06/2025 14:27
Subject: 60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My UVA kid was so bummed about the school’s crappy food contract. Held up VT as the gold standard and wished UVA had done as well in creating its food policy.
Could you please elaborate on what was not good with the food contract?
People constantly complain about the big dining halls because they are buffets with the quality you'd expect at a buffet. The meal plan lets you trade going to the buffets at the campus restaurants, so you don't have to go to the buffets if you don't want to.
To be clear, you’re talking about UVA? The food there is notoriously awful.
Anonymous
06/06/2025 14:26
Subject: 60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
Anonymous wrote:My UVA kid was so bummed about the school’s crappy food contract. Held up VT as the gold standard and wished UVA had done as well in creating its food policy.
Yes it’s so weird that a school the size of UVA doesn’t have better food.
Anonymous
06/06/2025 14:25
Subject: 60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
Anonymous wrote:VT is just trying to stay competitive with UVA and W&M. Its America price equals prestige in the mind of many, especially the DCUM crowd.
Plus great food is one of the things that makes them stand out and JMU is knocking at the door to become VA’s third best public school.
Um, VT already is competitive with the schools you mention. Higher ranked than one of them, in fact.
Anonymous
06/06/2025 14:23
Subject: 60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
VT still cheaper at full price than Pitt, Penn, University of Maryland at College Park and UVA so they can raise prices.
Anonymous
06/06/2025 09:59
Subject: 60% increase in Food+Housing at Virginia Tech in 3-4 years.
The 60% increase is a lot but comparing the housing and food to our kid at UMD and it right around that $17k number as well. UMD food is about $6k and housing about $11k. I think the food comes out to about $23/day which seems reasonable these days and $11k for about 10 months of housing seems to be on par with the market.