<p>^ Sorry, I meant college rankings of all varieties are rather stupid and subjective.</p>
<p>The problem is that everyone aims to purchase a slightly different “product” when shopping for colleges, and each school offers a different “product” to every potential student.</p>
<p>why is UF talked about so much? its not even on par with UT.</p>
<p>University of Texas has amazing graduate & professional program no doubt about that. Few schools (including the Ivy League) can compete when it comes to grad/professional programs.</p>
<p>However on the undergraduate program UF & UT are about tied. If UT got rid of the Top-10 stipulation for Texas in-state students then their quality would be up there with UNC.</p>
<p>Wow, what’s with the state of Florida hate? Besides California, that seems to be where everyone wants to live.
So what about the heat. You deal with it. Just like you would deal with the snow in Alaska. </p>
<p>Plus one could argue that Miami is a top 5 city in America, at least top 10.</p>
<p>^ You can deal with cold by putting on additional clothing. You can keep doing that for however long you need to (at least in theory). With heat, though, it doesn’t take long before you can’t take anything more off. “Dealing with it” usually entails living in the air conditioning all summer. And while one could argue that Miami is a “top 5 city”, I think you would probably lose that argument.</p>
<p>As I said earlier, arguments such as this one are subjective. Some people love Miami; many others don’t.</p>
<p>Ok, I’d take 97 and fry my butt off for 4 months for nice weather the rest of the year for swimming and boating.
You can have the 3-6 hours of daylight in the winter, plus it being really cold for the 20+ hours of daylight in the summer, plus the pretty scenery. More layers won’t make it brighter outside, but at least you guys still get paid like, what, $4,000 a year just to live in Alaska from the oil companies.</p>
<p>^ You have yet to discover the joy of cross-country skiing. And it can be done at any time of the day or night (not that there’s much of the former in the winter :P) thanks to floodlights on many of the trails.</p>
<p>This is exactly why you can’t find a right answer to questions regarding the relative merits of different regions. Different people like different things.</p>
<p>By the way, the PFD last year was for $3,269.00. However, $1,200 of that was a one-time-only energy rebate courtesy of our… unique ex-gov.</p>
<p>Yep, that’s the nice thing about America, a little bit of something for everyone. </p>
<p>After living in the cold practically my whole life in the midwest and New York, I’m looking at schools down South and in Cali/Arizona, haha. I live near the water now, but I can only use it 4 months out of the year.</p>
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<p>Why does everyone bash on UT’s undergrad programs. I mean, yes, the school is huge and all, but people constantly bash UT for undergraduate study, even though the school has a Top 10 undergrad business program and Top 10-15 undergrad engineering program. Plus, the school has very good communications, education and nursing programs. I honestly have no clue what Florida’s strengths are, but I highly doubt that Florida has more than a few better programs than UT. IMO, UT >> UF</p>
<p>I’d never even heard of UF outside of football/basketball until I came to this site. it’s a strong school in the way that Penn State and Ohio State are strong schools. the OP is making it out to be so much more than it really is.</p>
<p>and yet PSU outranks UF</p>
<p>What’s the percentage of UF grads who go on to get additional education? I’m not asking this as a snobby question, but as one that is needed to put the Payscale rank in context.</p>
<p>If most UF grads don’t go on to grad or professional school, then the Payscale figure is a reasonable metric for mid-career salaries. But if most DO go on, then the Payscale figure is giving you a salary for an atypical graduate working in an atypical career, and then I’d be a lot more cautious about interpreting it as a figure for your generic alum. Same goes for the other schools against which you are comparing UF. You could be comparing apples and oranges.</p>