<p>Which is more prestigious? Which gives greater opportunities for graduates in terms of investment banking and law school?</p>
<p>i would say that cornell is more prestigious overall, though uva is very respected.</p>
<p>With Cornell, it depends on which of the schools you graduate from. They vary in quality and reputation. U Va doesn't seem to have any such discrepancies and is respected across all its disciplines. As for which is more "prestigious," that is a subjective question, like comparing an Escalade with a Lexus; it becomes a question of personal preference. You should do fine at either Cornell or U Va. Where would you be happier?</p>
<p>I had the same decision to make a while back. I decided to go to Cornell. If you go here
<a href="http://www.career.cornell.edu/downloads/postgradsurveys/AnRprt02.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.career.cornell.edu/downloads/postgradsurveys/AnRprt02.pdf</a></p>
<p>they have some brief statistics about Cornell students and grad school acceptances and such. Somewhere is says that 86 percent of Cornell people were accepted to law school. </p>
<p>both are great schools, and I don't think you could go wrong with either one, but I did like the many,many options that I had at Cornell.</p>
<p>i would say they're pretty equally prestigous, but it depends on your major, if your science, cornell is great, or math, but it's a bit weaker in the humanities while uva is pretty strong in everythig</p>
<p>My roomate here at Cornell transferred from Virginia. Virginia is an excellent school, but I, and my roomate, would argue that Cornell is the more prestigious. Not only is the Cornell name extremely well known (much like UVA), but there is also the Ivy status. In addition, Cornell is a private school, one of the foremost research schools in the world, and the vast majority of departments are ranked within the top ten of their kind. </p>
<p>I don't mean to put down Virginia. It is an excellent school.</p>
<p>cornell is more prestigious. many people dont know that UVA is a good school. but the majority of people know that cornell is pretty elite and up there
(speaking from the west coast that is) i think probably 5% of people out here actually know what UVA is and like half of the 5% actually know its a good school</p>
<p>I would say that both schools are great. Prestige is a funny thing, because it's totally beholden to each specific person. I have a friend who really wanted to go to Cornell and got turned down, so she went to UVa. Her younger sister really wanted to go to UVa and got turned down, so she went to Cornell. I also have a friend who transferred from Cornell to Virginia. (I volunteered in the Admissions Office, so I helped w/ transfer orientation.)</p>
<p>Well, in UVa's defense, here's some things to consider. If you're interested in investment backing, UVa's undergraduate business school, the McIntire School of Commerce is superb. In this bad economy, 82% graduated w/ jobs and 7% went on to grad school. (UVa also has a graduate business school called the Darden School. Yes, it's strange. We have 2 business schools on the same campus. During graduation, each business school stands up and applauds the other one when McIntire's or Darden's names are called.)</p>
<p>As for law, here's a link showing the placement of law graduates at the top firms in the country. UVA is #4.</p>
<p>Whatever the case, you should visit both schools and get a feel for them. You'll get an excellent education w/ either Cornell or UVa. They're both very well respected, and you will probably get a job or admission into a top grad program w/ either school on your resume.</p>
<p>Cornell definitely has more prestige internationally as a UNIVERSITY(considering both undergrad and grad, that is), and it is way underrated in the us news ranking.</p>
<p>Also if you do a search on world university ranking, interestingly enough Cornell's ranking is way, way higher (around #6 worldwidely i think) than its u.s. news ranking. The methodology is certainly different, but it does say something. Cornell is recognized internationally as a very prestige world class research university. IMO, among ivy league schools, it belongs in the mid-upper range of the 2nd peers, ie, 1st peer: HYP, 2nd: Cornell Columbia UPenn, rest 3rd peer.</p>
<p>Oops, I really need to proofread what I submit. When I typed "investment backing," I meant "investment banking."</p>
<p>As for prestige, I think we sometimes get too caught up on that intangible. I think the more important question is "Which school is right for you?" Sure, you could go to a school deemed highly prestigious, but if you don't enjoy your experience there, then prestige really means nothing. I would suggest that 241378312847124387813 visit and research both schools to figure out which one feels right.</p>
<p>I beg to differ with the comment about Cornell having weak humanities... Cornell offers a variety of humanities-related majors such as their Policy Analysis and Management major which focuses on policy as well as psychology and sociology. You can not go wrong with Cornell, no matter what the major. The same thing applies to UVA, however, as mentioned, Cornell is probably more prestigious overall, plus it has the Ivy League status. With either school, you will get prestige-I personally would favor Cornell in this case</p>
<p>Wait a minute, does Cornell even have an undergraduate business school? Johnson is a graduate business school, right? If you're interested in investment banking as an undergrad, UVa is the obvious choice since Virginia actually teaches it. I think more UVa undergrads are hired by investment banks due to the shear fact that UVa has an undergraduate business school (and an excellent one at that). Otherwise, it's like applying to UVa for hotel management. UVa doesn't offer that but Cornell does.</p>
<p>Cornell has AEM, which is an undergraduate business program.</p>
<p>Really? Is it new? I was just perusing through last year's U.S. News College booklet, and Cornell wasn't even listed at all in the undergraduate business section.</p>
<p>Oh, I see...it's part of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. That's a strange place to have a business program. How good is that business program? U.S. News doesn't bother to even rank it.</p>
<p>US news does bother to rank it. It's ranked 12th in the nation.
AEM began as an agribusiness course at CALS and it just evolved over the years to a business program and Cornell didn't bother to switch AEM to a different school.</p>
<p>on top of that, I think you could concentrate in business at the hotel school. on a side note, I know people enjoy the fact that cornell has such breadth (and depth once you know what you to do) that many students come in gunho about a subject, take a random elective and realize that their passion lies elsewhere, even if it's in another college, which allow for easy transfer. I'm not familiar at all about UVa except that it has a clinical psych PhD program i'm slightly interested in for grad school.</p>
<p>uva is only getting better and better as their grads are leaving a strong impression on the workforce.. both have great campuses, great tradition, and great students. only thing is uva doesn't have strong engineering program.</p>
<p>I would say that Cornell will give you a better education because of it's intensive academic atmosphere and it's easy to approach faculty.</p>