<p>Hey, I was just wondering what kind of jobs econ majors get out of UVa. I am oos, and I would be 42,000 in debt from only 2 years. I dont know if its worth attending or simply staying at my third tier school. Do econ majors generally get good jobs with good staring salaries? Any help would be great.</p>
<p>I don’t know what your financial situation is but if your debt is need-based and you’re a middle-class student, the most you would owe would be capped at around $17,000. If you’re really economically challenged, you might be able to get a full ride to UVa through Access UVA even if you’re an out-of-state student.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/accessuva/[/url]”>http://www.virginia.edu/accessuva/</a></p>
<p>Back to your question, what school do you currently attend? Econ majors are offered a host of jobs upon graduation. I don’t know of any stats on the web like the info. on UVA’s undergraduate commerce majors, but many Econ majors are offered similar jobs as those offered to Comm School graduates.</p>
<p>Why not look at TX schools? UT Austin is fantastic as I am sure you well know. Check out <a href=“http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.mccombs.utexas.edu</a> for bschool. Rice is great. A&M is good for Agribusiness.</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree w/ Neurotic. Schools like Rice are good and cheap.</p>
<p>UVA isn’t too bad if you’re in state or out of state compared to other top schools. One bad thing though, its going private in a few years so the next few classes are going to be the last ones to enjoy the lower tuition.</p>
<p>UVA is not going private any time soon.</p>
<p>baggins, you’re mistaken. UVa will not be private.</p>
<p>here. all of you. read.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP/MGArticle/CDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031780103231&path=[/url]”>http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP/MGArticle/CDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031780103231&path=</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_46/b3908089.htm[/url]”>Businessweek - Bloomberg;
<p><a href=“W&M News”>http://www.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=3016</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/xp-18532[/url]”>http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/xp-18532</a></p>
<p>Well okay they aren’t totally going private but UVA is going to raise tuition rates soon. I’ve been hearing about this since last year from UVA reps and students that go there.</p>
<p>What is interesting about all this (for UVa in particular) is that it calls into question the very role of a state institution for higher education. Mr Jefferson would probably have balked at the idea, since it would further remove the University from his original vision.</p>
<p>There are many sides to this:</p>
<p>For the adminisration, bidding, salaries, recruitment of top professors, etc., will easier, as this will allow them to compete with the privates for such resources.</p>
<p>For a well-off student, this is a good thing. The increase in tuition will be, for his purposes, negligible. The school’s standing in USN&WR will probably increase, to his perception (perhaps not in reality, but what is the nature of reality, folks?). He will learn from better faculty (we assume) and so, will benefit.</p>
<p>For a student in the large grey area that constitutes the my-parents-make-too-much-for-financial-aid-but-too-little-to-send-me student, this will probably be a bad thing. He will not be able to attend. It will be the same conundrum that kids have regarding privates, but on a slightly less draconian curve.</p>
<p>For full-ride kids, better.</p>
<p>Will endowments increse? Only time will tell.</p>
<p>any thoughts?</p>
<p>neurotic, Those articles are close to a year old. If you’ve been following this, the charter movement has lost a lot of its steam. It seems that, for now anyway, UVa has backed away from the idea of becoming a charter school.</p>
<p>my understanding was that uva is now a charter school and over the next few years students will see tuition increases.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.c-ville.com/www/archives/2005/01-11-2005/asp/3.asp[/url]”>http://www.c-ville.com/www/archives/2005/01-11-2005/asp/3.asp</a></p>
<p>i wouldn’t call that backing away or ayear old.</p>
<p>You’re both right. UVa has received more autonomy from the state (which will lead to some increases in tuition), but not as a “charter school” (since technically the bill was renamed a Restructuring Bill which passed a couple of months ago. I know, I know, it’s a semantic argument.) </p>
<p>Anyway, the bill doesn’t make UVa private, but it does allow the University more flexibility to deal w/ the vicissitudes of state funding and support by giving UVa the ability to set tuition costs, hire faculty, build new buildings, etc. without asking permission from the state legislature. In turn, the University will accept less funding from the Commonwealth, which only provides UVa 8% of its operating budget anyway, and will have the means to be more self-sufficient.</p>
<p>I know there are some factions in the alumni community who want UVa to be the first privately-funded public university. That remains to be seen. All I know is that in order to replace the 8% that Virginia gives UVa yearly, the University will need an extra $3.2 billion in its endowment.</p>
<p>yes. i would go with capricousness or mercuriality over vicissitudes jk</p>
<p>Gang, as one who writes the tuition check, let me lay out the facts of life: UVa tuition has gone up 8% per year for a long time now, and (we are told) will likely continue to rise at that rate for the forseeable future. Back in the 1990s the General Assembly forced all state universities to significantly reduce their tuition rates. After that, the universities have been allowed to grow their prices at about twice the rate of inflation. The charter initiative is much more about how the university will be able to spend the money. </p>
<p>And, for those of you who think there are only two kinds of parents–those with high incomes who can pay out of pocket and those who can’t pay with current income–let me point out that there’s a third group of non-indigent parents: those who saved for 18 years in order to pay for college. Granted, it’s dismaying to watch those accounts bleed into the UVa registrar’s office, but we remind ourselves that this is a good thing. It’s much better than paying a bail bondsman, for example!</p>
<p>Well, the problem with the 90’s was that the state reduced funding to UVa from 25% to its current low of 8% without allowing UVa the freedom to raise tuition, hire new faculty, and give faculty raises. I’m amazed that UVa didn’t suffer from the massive diaspora of great professors leaving for other schools that William & Mary had to endure during the same period.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, for the benefit of current and future Virginia students, I do believe that UVa, William & Mary and Virginia Tech must remain affordable while trying to improve themselves. The future of the state of Virginia depends on it.</p>
<p>Neurotic, you’re such an erudite. ;)</p>
<p>Oh yeah? Well you’re pansophic! :)</p>
<p>While the argument of whether or not UVa should be private (or public privately funded, or charter, or restructured, or whatever other pretty name you want to slap on it) is a controversial one, I’m surprised people keep bring up the notion of what “Jefferson” wanted. While technically this moves away from Jefferson’s original plan for the university, times have also change. When UVa was founded, the only other school in the south was William and Mary, which Jefferson hated.</p>
<p>Now adays, being that there are a bagillion schools, I think Jefferson would want UVa to be the best school possible. What more would he want than a “state school” being among the highest ranked private schools. And since Jefferson said a lot of things, and did something completely different anyway, I think he would be very supportive of the University doing whatever it takes to be better.</p>
<p>A lot of the problem stems from an argument between current in-state students and alumni/OOS students. Honestly, UVa already costs about 35-38000 a year for an OOSer, another 3 or 4000 isn’t going to do much (42000 is about as expensive as the most expensive southern private schools). As an OOSer I ONLY see the positive affects of tuition raising. And hell, while I don’t really care about rankings, isn’t it nice to say that your school, not only is in the top 25, but top 20, top 15, top 10? UVa hasn’t moved UP in the rankings for years. I’m sick of these private school kids talking down about UVa because its a “state school.” (I had an extremely odd experience when i visited duke during the fall semester…). </p>
<p>For you instaters whose tuition is going to go up dramatically (I believe i saw an article in the cav daily that said instate tuition will start to go up by like 15% a year until its comparable with OOS tuition), tough noogies. The best things in life arn’t free, and they sure arn’t cheap either. </p>
<p>I don’t understand why people wouldn’t want to do every reasonable thing to make UVa the best school it could be.</p>