<p>For UG more or less</p>
<p>Duke
UNC
WF/UVa/BC
Umd
UM
Va Tech/Ga Tech
FSU/Clemson/NCSt</p>
<p>I’ve noticed that there is a large variation on where people put Georgia Tech. Do you think that this is simply because some people over-value it or some under-value it, or just because it has such a narrow focus on engineering, computer science, etc.?</p>
<p>Typetuba:</p>
<p>GT is one of the top 5 engineering schools in the world and has been for many years. Although Duke matches it in BioE, GT has no peer for overall engineering strength in the ACC or anywhere south of Cambridge and east of the Mississippi. The variation that you speak of comes from folks who place greater emphasis on the ranking of the College of Arts and Crafts.</p>
<p>^or equal emphasis even</p>
<p>“GT is one of the top 5 engineering schools in the world and has been for many years.”</p>
<p>Hyperbole. GT is a great school, but I don’t know if anyone can honestly state that it is top 5 in the world. Top 5 in the U.S. is more accurate.</p>
<p>“GT has no peer for overall engineering strength in the ACC or anywhere south of Cambridge and east of the Mississippi. The variation that you speak of comes from folks who place greater emphasis on the ranking of the College of Arts and Crafts.”</p>
<p>Illinois and Michigan, among others, are definitely peers of GT for engineering.</p>
<p>I would add Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Purdue and even perhaps Northwestern and Princeton to that list rjkofnovi.</p>
<p>^^^Those were the, “among others.”</p>
<p>I’m a late 80’s grad of FSU’s college of business (BS Acctg, Master Acctg). </p>
<p>I passed the CPA on the first try right out of college and, at the time, FSU’s pass rate for that exam was 40% which was quadruple the national average. </p>
<p>I have no idea how FSU ranks compared to the other ACC schools overall but, based on my experience, FSU has a very good business school for undergrads and grads. Duke, by comparison, doesn’t teach business to undergrads for reasons unknown. Wake does and I’d bet Wake does a great job with it. </p>
<p>I’ve never been out of work since college ended either. I’ve gotten a raise every year for the last 15 years too. FSU is a party school but don’t think for one second you can’t get a world class education there. Let me be more specific … you can get a world class PRACTICAL education there. Business is business. </p>
<p>If you want talk any day about everything just to hear yourself talk, well, I am sure you can find that at much more elite schools if that is your thing. If you want to spend your life doing research to suggest thinsg that other people can figure out just by using old fashioned common sense, well, there are plenty of places that offer that key skill too.</p>