<p>I don't know if someone else already posted this (please double-check facts as I tried to do this as fast as possible)...</p>
<p>Engineering Grad Rankings (Sorry couldn't find undergrad rankings)</p>
<h2>2005</h2>
<p>VT #31
UVa #34</p>
<h2>2001</h2>
<p>VT #25
UVa #36</p>
<p>Not that rankings mean that much, but UVa is moving up, while VT is moving down - again for grad though.</p>
<h2>Salaries</h2>
<p>UVa 52K Median from 2004 SEAS Annual Report - although it also lists 45K as the Median accepted offer (Probably the top of the class went on to graduate school)</p>
<p>VT 48K Median for 2003-2004</p>
<p>Hence a 4K difference.</p>
<h2>Grad Schools (Top Grad Engineering School Attendance)</h2>
<h2>VT</h2>
<p>Cornell
Princeton
Stanford(2)</p>
<p>So 4 top schools from about 55-60 Engineering Grad Students
= about 6.9 %</p>
<h2>UVa</h2>
<p>Carnegie Mellon(2)
Johns Hopkins
Stanford(3)
Caltech(2)
GaTech(2)
MIT</p>
<p>So 11 top schools from about 50 Engineering Grad Students
= about 22% </p>
<p>Interesting facts I found on the Internet:</p>
<p>-Founder of MIT was a Prof. at UVa at one time
-In a year's time (under a new dean), UVa's rank moved up 8 places
-New 99,000 square foot facility to open this spring
-Hired new National Academy of Engineering faculty (big award)
-Plan to hire 25 to 30 more prof., so ranking should rise</p>
<p>Don't know much personally about the engineering school, but I assume as it is smaller, you will get a lot of attention.</p>
<p>Overall, I think the difference between VT and UVa are as follows:</p>
<p>Everything but engineering: UVa is much better than VT
Enginering: VT is marginally better than UVa in research
UVa engineering students are much better than VT students
UVa engineering students make a little more than VT students</p>
<p>Basketball: UVa is better than VT
Football: UVa is much, much better than VT</p>
<p>Just kidding, VT is much, much, much, much better than UVa in football</p>