<p>I know uconn is number one, but what about the other ones?</p>
<p>With my current knowledge, I would say Uconn >>> UNH >= UVM >> URI</p>
<p>The main two that I am wondering about are UNH and UMV</p>
<p>I am posting this in this section becuase there are no posts in either UVM and UNH, and I also wanted to see which one comes close to Uconn.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I’m going to display my bias here about big State U’s. I am an alum of UConn. However, even with that, I believe that the answer to your question is that there is no difference between these schools in terms of the quality of the undergraduate education. At all four, the great majority of your education will consist of lectures in largish (40 or 50 students) to very large (250+) classes. I don’t think it really matters, at least from the perspective of academics, whether you are sitting and listening to a lecture in Storrs, CT, Durham, NH, Burlington, VT or RI. Same text, same curriculum, more or less the same words coming out of the professors’ mouths. UConn and UVM probably a bit more competitive, my guess is avg SAT is 50 to 100 points higher than at URI and UNH, but not enough that it is going to make an appreciable difference in an undergraduate education. But there really is no difference in the type or quality of education, notwithstanding the ratings–UConn=UVm=URI=UNH=Penn State=SUNY=Rutgers, etc. There certainly are non-academic differencs between the schools–Burlington beats the other 3 hands down in terms of location; UConn has big time sports, the other 3 do not; UConn may have nicer buildings because of the billion plus the state has spent over the last approx. 15 years (some would argue at the expense of resources for classroom teaching–enrollment has increased by over 40% over that same period, faculty by only about 15%). Whether any of those non-academic factors justify paying OOS tuition is up the the individual.</p>