Would you rather go to UW-Madison or UIUC?

College Search & Selection
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You can’t be more wrong. UW outranks UIUC in almost all fields outside of engineering, with nationally top ranked departments in biological/health/medical/agricultural sciences, social sciences, languages and humanities.</p>

<p>< Department >…< UW > .<uiuc>
Overall(UG) … 35 … 40
Business(UG) … 13 … 13
Engineering(UG) … 13 … 4
Clinical Psych … 1 … 9
Pharmacy … 9 … NA
Vet Med … 5 … 18
Social Work … 12 … 18
Mathematics … 14 … 18
Computer Sci … 11 … 5
Biological Sci … 15 … 29
Microbiology … 3 … 11
Chemistry … 7 … 7
Physics … 16 … 8
Earth Sci … 15 … 34
Economics … 11 … 28
English … 16 … 19
History … 11 … 22
Political Sci … 16 … 22
Public Affairs … 14 … NA
Psychology … 9 … 5
Sociology … 1 … 34
Education … 12 … 25
Library/Info … 11 … 1
Medical Research … 27 … NA
Medical Prim Care … 13 … NA</uiuc></p>

<p>UW also outranks UIUC in other fields like antropology, philosophy, agriculture/dairy, medical sciences, languages, etc. Btw, even in engineering, UW has a top 5 chemical engineering.</p>

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<p>Wisconsin- beautiful area, sports, great academics, more recognized here on the east coast (to me anyway)</p>

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<p>To you maybe beanieboo, but U of I along with Purdue and Michigan carry much bigger of names than Wisconsin in Seattle and the Silicon Valley, anywhere you’ve got high tech industries. You’ll have a hard time arguing to an engineer in a high tech company that Wisconsin has better academics than any of the other three engineering big names in the Big Ten.</p>

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<p>I guess the former CEOs of Autodesk, Cisco and current head of Epic Sytems might disagree. Not to mention old Bill Gates himself.</p>

<p>[Bill</a> Gates surprises students as “stand in” professor (Oct. 12, 2005)](<a href=“http://www.news.wisc.edu/11679]Bill”>Bill Gates surprises students as “stand in” professor)</p>

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<p>My D would rather go to Madison. I think they’re comparable schools academically (although each has its strengths, such as UIUC engineering), but UW Madison has a prettier campus, is in a town on a beautiful lake that is the state capitol as opposed to a town situated amongst the cornfields, and is closer to home (but not too close!). However, UIUC is our state flagship and has the benefit of lower tuition. D will be happy to get into and attend either of them, but UW Madison would be her preference.</p>

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<p>Barrons, Michigan and Wisconsin are both excellent. But I’d have to say that Michigan is a better school overall. The top 5 most prestigious public universities in the US have always been UC Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, UVA and UNC. Wisconsin is definitely top 10 though.</p>

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<p>Yes and no. I think both UW and UM have far more depth and breadth than UVa and UNC which are mostly strong in liberal arts and little else. Uva has a small so-so engineering school and UNC has none. Both are also not as strong in the hard sciences. I’d say the Top 5 are really UCB, UCLA, UM, UW and UIUC.</p>

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Barrons, is that you? You’re starting to sound a lot like Hawkette. :D</p>

<p><em>Not that I don’t agree with you</em></p>

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UM, UIUC, and UW have more breadth and depth than UCLA. </p>

<p>IMO, it would be:
UCB, UM, UIUC, UW and a tie between UCLA and UT-Austin.</p>

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<p>UCB. You dissing UCLA again? ;-)</p>

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<p>^ :D</p>

<p>I guess I should be nicer to the 'ruins.</p>