How good is Wisconsin engineering/OOS chances?

novaparent
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:16:02 +0000

I didn’t know we were talking about UVA engineering either. I thought we were talking about overall graduation rates, and that barrons’ point was that it’s unfair to compare U-Va and UW overall because UW has a large engineering school where internships are standard and good for the students and this pulls down UW’s average.

The problem with the argument is that U-Va’s engineering school is actually proportionately LARGER than UW’s – 15.7 percent of undergrads versus 12.3 percent – and neither school is so overwhelming in size that its graduation rate can put a large dent in the overall number. We can have a philosophical discussion on whether internships for engineers are awesome and should trump high graduation rates, but regardless there’s more to the graduation rate issue than engineering. In both schools the biggest school by size is arts and letters.