<p>Really? babytitain, are you taking any lower-division (100 or 200 level) humanities courses with young professors?</p>
<p>Are you sure they’re not grad students?</p>
<p>Classical influences on English poetry 300 level- Race, phd, Stanford, distinguished chair
Comparative Economics 200 level-Rosefield, phd, Harvard, (wrote all three text books)
Latin 100 level-Wooten phd, UNC, department chair
Linguistics 100 level-Pertsova, phd, UCLA, associate professor
Creative writing 200 level, Kenan, associate professor</p>
<p>Yes, I’m sure.</p>
<p>Fair enough! Can’t argue with that.</p>
<p>As an alumni I agree there are few classes taught by grad students, at least in my field which was history. More common is that you have a class in a large lecture hall 2-3 times a week with heavyweight academic professors, and once a week you break into smaller seminars with grad students to discuss and review.</p>
<p>Also as far as ranking, some of these people have got to be kidding me. Especially with UVA. UVA is THE highest ranked public school on the east coast and easily equal to any other public. Its law school alone is second only to top private schools, and not “the ivies” in general. In fact it law schools almost always rank harvard/princeton/yale/stanford then chicago/virginia/berkley/michigan, then the rest. The label Ivy League, like many private institutions, is more reputation than substance. </p>
<p>UNC by rank, is a notch below UVA overall but as many have mentioned you have to take department into account. W&M is very close in academic ranking but the schools differ greatly, and having a very completive sports program does effect the overall feel of a school. </p>
<p>UNC is generally in the top 50-5 overall, top 5 public, and top 100-25 globally. If reputation goes down by distance it’s probably because those in that area people place too much emphasis on their own regional schools, ahem. </p>
<p>As far as “buying” kids, UNC has been voted best value for public universities 10 years in a row by kiplingers: </p>
<p>[UNC</a> Chapel Hill ranked best value by Kiplinger’s for 10th straight time | TechJournal South](<a href=“http://www.techjournalsouth.com/2011/01/unc-chapel-hill-ranked-best-value-by-kiplingers-for-10th-straight-time/]UNC”>http://www.techjournalsouth.com/2011/01/unc-chapel-hill-ranked-best-value-by-kiplingers-for-10th-straight-time/)</p>
<p>So guilty as charged. Comparing public and private student pools isn’t really fair because public schools are designed to give top quality education to a broader student base within the state for a reasonable cost. UNC school systems overall excels at this. Second only to California in academics but not value.</p>
<p>I meant to say Columbia not Princeton, and I meant to make all those errors.</p>
<p>You’re not an alumni, you’re an alumnus.</p>