Penn State University vs University of Pittsburgh

[XtremePower]

<p>Depends on who’s looking. A person that has scored around 1600 on the SAT will obviously think 1780 is a pretty high score but a person with 1900 on the SAT will think 1780 is a joke. </p>

<p>Personally, I think its weird to have 1780 average and be ranked on the same level as UIUC (1970 avg), UT-Austin(1860 avg). </p>

<p>Sidenote to yupper, 1780 average is for the main campus only. </p>

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@maggiedog

Penn State can do whatever it wants. It’s job is not to educate state residents.

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<p>Gotcha. Its Carnegie Mellon’s and University of California’s job to educate Pennsylvania residents. </p>

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@1moremom

Pitt and Penn State are both “state-related” universities and are considered the same by the state government in regards to funding

I don’t see the benefit of being state related. They don’t get much funding from the state and neither do they get any freedom like private Universities. Wouldn’t it be better if they do private ? I guess the state doesn’t let them do that. </p>

<p>Another weird thing is that PSU has less endowment than Pitt but PSU is 2x the size.</p>