<p>I consider Case to be the better engineering school. I looked at going to Case, but have to admit that I thought it was too rigorous.</p>
<p>I went to Ohio State my freshman year, and sitting in first-year lectures with 400 students wasn’t working for me. I transferred to a small west coast school, and it made all the difference in the world.</p>
<p>Very few hiring managers are going to know or care where Case and Ohio State stand in the rankings.</p>
<p>Yes, weirdly enough Cincinnati the city and surrounding area is the most liveable part of Ohio (some people call it an inland San Francisco because of its hilliness, restaurants, and culture, I’m not joking, I believe Carol Channing said that), but the University of Cincinnati is right in the middle of “lousy-part-of-town-ville.” Didn’t help that after the race riots in 2001, the cops just gave up and now it’s gone from abnormally low crime to abnormally high crime.</p>
<p>If only OSU were in a suburb of Cincinnati, or better yet…Northern Kentucky. :D</p>
<p>DD1 brought back some pics of UC DAAP (Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning iirc) from a recent tour and lemme tell you, the place is built to Nordstrom spec quality… The rest of UC did look pretty good too. Another plus is the zoo is right next to UC :). But, the area around UC as mentioned above is in the South Kandahar part of Cincy. Pity, because I, too, think highly of Cincy and consider it the second most livable city in the Midwest, after Chicago… We visit Cincy quite often (IKEA, Jungle Jim’s, and Parts Express are our favorites there).</p>
<p>Funny Cincy zoo observation from our visit today - people with University of Kentucky (!) t-shirts outnumbered OSU t-shirts at the zoo by a very wide margin. No idea why. No Case or UC or Xavier shirts, either…</p>