WalkonEggShells. We get it. You don’t think Fairfield is as prestigious as Villanova. It’s obviously a huge deal for you. I think you should take out the loans you need to finance your child’s time at Villanova so you can sleep at night and so the world can know My Child Attended Villanova. Your attitude is highly disrespectful. Villanova was founded in 1842, Fairfield in 1942. Villanova should be ahead in the prestige contest as its been around for a century longer. Despite that, Fairfield earned its own chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in record time, the average income earned by its graduates 10 years after graduation exceeds the graduates of all other Catholic universities in the US save 3 according to the government’s College Scorecard website, and it’s alumni include the newly named CEO of General Electric, a former president of the federal reserve bank of New York, the chief administrative officer at Harvard, the former CEO of LL Bean, an admiral who is the physician to Congress and another pioneering physician who is on the faculty of Johns Hopkins Medical School who was named one of a Time magazines 100 most influential people a few years ago. I don’t think your child!'s career will be damaged too badly if he chooses to attend.