^ All 3 of my kids were offered generous merit to CWRU (but net COA was still higher than Pitt) and chose Pitt over it because the research facilities and options - esp if you are leaning more to biotech or materials engineering, are much more substantial than CWRU. The NIH funding that Pitt gets is massive compared to CWRU (I can find you the link if you are interested). When we visited the CWRU chemE lab, experiments were on carts that were wheeled into the lab area when being worked on…which seemed very limiting. Beyond research and the facilities, the student-happy factor played a big part in choosing Pitt.