<p>Are you from Wisconsin?</p>
<p>If that’s the case, Minnesota is the closest comparison you’re going to find. Near the same distance from home for you (probably), the exact same price, huge campus, decent engineering program, fantastic new outdoor football stadium, and its a Midwest state school–so the partying is going to be great.</p>
<p>Also, the prestige of UMinnesota is going to be better in Wisconsin and Minnesota than the prestige of VTech is going to be in Virginia.</p>