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Anonymous wrote:UVA has aerospace. I have a kid at UVA Engineering and he knows of students who are graduating in May who have already landed jobs at Blue Origin and NASA.

How UVA compares to Purdue in this major and employment outcome? Considering Purdue ends up being $5k less

DP. There is no comparison at all. UVA doesn't rank in aerospace engineering and is waaaay down the list for general engineering. All of the other choices on this list would be better than UVA.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?myCollege=engineering-doctorate&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

US News is irrelevant for many fields, including for engineering. ABET means that ranking and prestige do not matter as much for engineering as most other fields.

Not true at all. It’s like saying all law schools are equal because you have to pass the bar. Some engineering schools are much better than others.

Anonymous wrote:Have a kid in engineering at VT. Total I paid this year was 35K.

Also have a kid at UVA engineering. Total I paid this year 47k.

Can you compare the Engineering programs a bit between UVA and VT? What are the implications of the size of the programs (with UVA being much smaller)? Any other key differences to know?

Anonymous wrote:Of this list, I would recommend Virginia Tech. Is the cheapest on your list with strong placement into aerospace. My son graduated from VT engineering, had a great experience and has multiple friends that got aerospace jobs out of VT at places like Boeing. He loved the school spirit and the campus at Virginia Tech.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA has aerospace. I have a kid at UVA Engineering and he knows of students who are graduating in May who have already landed jobs at Blue Origin and NASA.

How UVA compares to Purdue in this major and employment outcome? Considering Purdue ends up being $5k less

DP. There is no comparison at all. UVA doesn't rank in aerospace engineering and is waaaay down the list for general engineering. All of the other choices on this list would be better than UVA.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?myCollege=engineering-doctorate&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

US News is irrelevant for many fields, including for engineering. ABET means that ranking and prestige do not matter as much for engineering as most other fields.

You are a broken record. And you are still wrong every time.

You all are confounding different posters, which I suppose is an unavoidable risk on an anonymous forum.

I pointed out that US News is mostly irrelevant and I am a hiring manager for engineers, so I have first-hand experience working with engineers from a wide range of US universities and even a few engineers from non-US universities. However, I am NOT the poster whose student went to UVa for AeroE. Sorry that your suppositions are wrong.

You are not the only hiring manager on this board. There are 5 or so schools for engineering where there is absolutely a difference. Constantly produces some of the brightest engineers. This is not a coincidence.

5? Sure. Hence the word "mostly" in my sentence that you quoted.

Yes, and of those top 5 or so USNWR got it right in my opinion based on outcomes.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA has aerospace. I have a kid at UVA Engineering and he knows of students who are graduating in May who have already landed jobs at Blue Origin and NASA.

How UVA compares to Purdue in this major and employment outcome? Considering Purdue ends up being $5k less

DP. There is no comparison at all. UVA doesn't rank in aerospace engineering and is waaaay down the list for general engineering. All of the other choices on this list would be better than UVA.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?myCollege=engineering-doctorate&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

US News is irrelevant for many fields, including for engineering. ABET means that ranking and prestige do not matter as much for engineering as most other fields.

You are a broken record. And you are still wrong every time.

You all are confounding different posters, which I suppose is an unavoidable risk on an anonymous forum.

I pointed out that US News is mostly irrelevant and I am a hiring manager for engineers, so I have first-hand experience working with engineers from a wide range of US universities and even a few engineers from non-US universities. However, I am NOT the poster whose student went to UVa for AeroE. Sorry that your suppositions are wrong.

You are not the only hiring manager on this board. There are 5 or so schools for engineering where there is absolutely a difference. Constantly produces some of the brightest engineers. This is not a coincidence.

5? Sure. Hence the word "mostly" in my sentence that you quoted.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA has aerospace. I have a kid at UVA Engineering and he knows of students who are graduating in May who have already landed jobs at Blue Origin and NASA.

How UVA compares to Purdue in this major and employment outcome? Considering Purdue ends up being $5k less

DP. There is no comparison at all. UVA doesn't rank in aerospace engineering and is waaaay down the list for general engineering. All of the other choices on this list would be better than UVA.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?myCollege=engineering-doctorate&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

US News is irrelevant for many fields, including for engineering. ABET means that ranking and prestige do not matter as much for engineering as most other fields.

You are a broken record. And you are still wrong every time.

You all are confounding different posters, which I suppose is an unavoidable risk on an anonymous forum.

I pointed out that US News is mostly irrelevant and I am a hiring manager for engineers, so I have first-hand experience working with engineers from a wide range of US universities and even a few engineers from non-US universities. However, I am NOT the poster whose student went to UVa for AeroE. Sorry that your suppositions are wrong.

You are not the only hiring manager on this board. There are 5 or so schools for engineering where there is absolutely a difference. Constantly produces some of the brightest engineers. This is not a coincidence.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA has aerospace. I have a kid at UVA Engineering and he knows of students who are graduating in May who have already landed jobs at Blue Origin and NASA.

How UVA compares to Purdue in this major and employment outcome? Considering Purdue ends up being $5k less

DP. There is no comparison at all. UVA doesn't rank in aerospace engineering and is waaaay down the list for general engineering. All of the other choices on this list would be better than UVA.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?myCollege=engineering-doctorate&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

US News is irrelevant for many fields, including for engineering. ABET means that ranking and prestige do not matter as much for engineering as most other fields.

I [b]completely disagree. I think they're spot-on in their engineering rankings. I'm sorry that UVA simply doesn't rate.

And I strongly disagree. My Aerospace engineering kid turned down Ga Tech for UVA, was taught by a woman astronaut, had internships every year, one at NASA and is at Princeton’s engine department finishing his doctorate. It’s unlikely you could do that from VT.

[/b]Yikes. I'm glad it worked out for your kid anyway.

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Thanks. He was sensitive to costs. GT, then, was significantly more than UVA in-state.

I get that. Fortunate to have UVA as the in-state school.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA has aerospace. I have a kid at UVA Engineering and he knows of students who are graduating in May who have already landed jobs at Blue Origin and NASA.

How UVA compares to Purdue in this major and employment outcome? Considering Purdue ends up being $5k less

DP. There is no comparison at all. UVA doesn't rank in aerospace engineering and is waaaay down the list for general engineering. All of the other choices on this list would be better than UVA.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?myCollege=engineering-doctorate&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

US News is irrelevant for many fields, including for engineering. ABET means that ranking and prestige do not matter as much for engineering as most other fields.

You are a broken record. And you are still wrong every time.

You all are confounding different posters, which I suppose is an unavoidable risk on an anonymous forum.

I pointed out that US News is mostly irrelevant and I am a hiring manager for engineers, so I have first-hand experience working with engineers from a wide range of US universities and even a few engineers from non-US universities. However, I am NOT the poster whose student went to UVa for AeroE. Sorry that your suppositions are wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA has aerospace. I have a kid at UVA Engineering and he knows of students who are graduating in May who have already landed jobs at Blue Origin and NASA.

How UVA compares to Purdue in this major and employment outcome? Considering Purdue ends up being $5k less

DP. There is no comparison at all. UVA doesn't rank in aerospace engineering and is waaaay down the list for general engineering. All of the other choices on this list would be better than UVA.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?myCollege=engineering-doctorate&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

US News is irrelevant for many fields, including for engineering. ABET means that ranking and prestige do not matter as much for engineering as most other fields.

I [b]completely disagree. I think they're spot-on in their engineering rankings. I'm sorry that UVA simply doesn't rate.

And I strongly disagree. My Aerospace engineering kid turned down Ga Tech for UVA, was taught by a woman astronaut, had internships every year, one at NASA and is at Princeton’s engine department finishing his doctorate. It’s unlikely you could do that from VT.

[/b]Yikes. I'm glad it worked out for your kid anyway.

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Thanks. He was sensitive to costs. GT, then, was significantly more than UVA in-state.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Just to clarify. UVA and V tech are our only in state options. Neither gave merit ( at least so far). All other oos schools have merit. Price wise UVA most expensive, VA tech least expensive. All other schools in between those two in state schools.

I don’t think that’s correct. I just went and checked for OOS engineering at both with all the add-ins. It’s about $52k at both.

Op has that wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA has aerospace. I have a kid at UVA Engineering and he knows of students who are graduating in May who have already landed jobs at Blue Origin and NASA.

How UVA compares to Purdue in this major and employment outcome? Considering Purdue ends up being $5k less

DP. There is no comparison at all. UVA doesn't rank in aerospace engineering and is waaaay down the list for general engineering. All of the other choices on this list would be better than UVA.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?myCollege=engineering-doctorate&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

US News is irrelevant for many fields, including for engineering. ABET means that ranking and prestige do not matter as much for engineering as most other fields.

I completely disagree. I think they're spot-on in their engineering rankings. I'm sorry that UVA simply doesn't rate.

And I strongly disagree. My Aerospace engineering kid turned down Ga Tech for UVA, was taught by a woman astronaut, had internships every year, one at NASA and is at Princeton’s engine department finishing his doctorate. It’s unlikely you could do that from VT.

Yikes. I'm glad it worked out for your kid anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA has aerospace. I have a kid at UVA Engineering and he knows of students who are graduating in May who have already landed jobs at Blue Origin and NASA.

How UVA compares to Purdue in this major and employment outcome? Considering Purdue ends up being $5k less

DP. There is no comparison at all. UVA doesn't rank in aerospace engineering and is waaaay down the list for general engineering. All of the other choices on this list would be better than UVA.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?myCollege=engineering-doctorate&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

US News is irrelevant for many fields, including for engineering. ABET means that ranking and prestige do not matter as much for engineering as most other fields.

I completely disagree. I think they're spot-on in their engineering rankings. I'm sorry that UVA simply doesn't rate.

And I strongly disagree. My Aerospace engineering kid turned down Ga Tech for UVA, was taught by a woman astronaut, had internships every year, one at NASA and is at Princeton’s engine department finishing his doctorate. It’s unlikely you could do that from VT.

You must be joking. Why on earth is that “unlikely” from VT? You are seriously delusional if you think UVA engineering is somehow superior to any of these other excellent schools. No one thinks of UVA as any kind of top engineering school. Because it’s not.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA has aerospace. I have a kid at UVA Engineering and he knows of students who are graduating in May who have already landed jobs at Blue Origin and NASA.

How UVA compares to Purdue in this major and employment outcome? Considering Purdue ends up being $5k less

DP. There is no comparison at all. UVA doesn't rank in aerospace engineering and is waaaay down the list for general engineering. All of the other choices on this list would be better than UVA.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?myCollege=engineering-doctorate&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

US News is irrelevant for many fields, including for engineering. ABET means that ranking and prestige do not matter as much for engineering as most other fields.

You are a broken record. And you are still wrong every time.

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I had no doubt this is the idiotic UVA booster who can’t stand it that UVA engineering is ranked so low - and isn’t even being discussed here because of it. They always pop in to assure us that “USNWR is irrelevant for engineering.” Wishful thinking!

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Anonymous wrote:UVA has aerospace. I have a kid at UVA Engineering and he knows of students who are graduating in May who have already landed jobs at Blue Origin and NASA.

How UVA compares to Purdue in this major and employment outcome? Considering Purdue ends up being $5k less

DP. There is no comparison at all. UVA doesn't rank in aerospace engineering and is waaaay down the list for general engineering. All of the other choices on this list would be better than UVA.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?myCollege=engineering-doctorate&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

US News is irrelevant for many fields, including for engineering. ABET means that ranking and prestige do not matter as much for engineering as most other fields.

You are a broken record. And you are still wrong every time.

Of this list, I would recommend Virginia Tech. Is the cheapest on your list with strong placement into aerospace. My son graduated from VT engineering, had a great experience and has multiple friends that got aerospace jobs out of VT at places like Boeing. He loved the school spirit and the campus at Virginia Tech.