<p>I am trying to make my final decision - UVa or UMich. The location, weather, and size do not really matter to me, but I would like to know which university would be better for my career.
I want to major in mechanical engineering (or electrical), and eventually, I wanna work in an automotive or computer-aided design and manufacturing industry. </p>
<p>p.s. I live in VA, so going to UVa is cheaper than Michigan, but not too much cheaper since I am getting approximately $20,000 from UMich if I go there.</p>
<p>If you’re looking to go into the automotive industry, Michigan seems like the better choice, since that is where most domestic car manufacturers are based.</p>
<p>There’s a shocker – barrons expressing a negative opinion about U-Va! You might want to review barron’s earlier posts before attaching any credibility to his opinions on this subject.</p>
<p>I don’t think barrons comment was intended to be a negative comment on UVa as much as a positive comment on Michigan.</p>
<p>Michigan is ranked #6 in Mechanical Engineering for the NRC survey of faculty quality and #3 in USNews for undergraduate MechE education. It is hard not to call that “world class”. </p>
<p>Virginia is not ranked in either. </p>
<p>Just for calibration and completeness (and because only VT came up when I searched “Virginia”), Virginia Tech is ranked #35 in the NRC survey and #14 in the USNews survey.</p>
<p>As they say in the automotive industry - Your mileage may vary.</p>
<p>I have to agree with barrons here…
Then again, I also don’t believe that strength of a program is what gets your anywhere in life. UMich and UVa are fantastic schools…do well at either, and you can do anything</p>
<p>Maybe not in this particular instance, ClassicRockerDay, but there’s no question that barrons views on U-Va are colored by his negative opinion of the school. I suspect that if you analyzed his nearly 11,000 posts you would find 50 anti-UVA comments from him for every one favorable opinion. Barrons is on record that he considers U-Va an overrated university with inferior professors and nothing but rich pampered white kids. His views on the university’s undergraduate student body are particularly unfair and insulting. I think the OP would be well served to know this when considering barrons opinions.</p>
<p>While I don’t hold the notion that UVA is an inferior university than Michigan, I will have to agree with barrons here. I don’t know about his negative opinions of UVA, but Michigan’s engineering programs are some of the best out there. </p>
<p>I would highly suggest Michigan over Virginia. But Virginia is a excellent school as well, and you shouldn’t turn down UVA if you feel attached to it.</p>
<p>I’d prefer to call it a fact. Just a day before I said UVa vs UM for business was a wash. If you are paying lots of money for college which I would assume includes the professors’ quality and the quality of the facilities I think you should look at more than the average SAT score of the students. You can hang around lots of smart people for the price of a coffee in Cambridge. Mass. I don’t believe UVa is a serious player in the popular ME design competitions such as Formula SAE</p>
<p>Wahoomb, stop being such a hater. Why do you want to work in the field you want to work in? Because it interests you. Automotive interest the OP. Lay off</p>
<p>UW won three Goldwaters this year and one $250,000 Hertz Prize and one Churchill. Engineering students won the SAE challenge, again.
Hockey player won the Hobey Baker Award.</p>
