UNC vs UW-Madison vs UMD for Computer Science

anhydrite
Fri, 22 May 2015 15:16:02 +0000

I am not asking for a tuition statement, qdchen. We have been trying to assist you to come to a decision.

I am noting that MYOS said the cuts have already been decided – this is not the case for UW, but may well be for UNC. The amount of the cuts that Madison campus will need to absorb is not yet clear, and it would certainly not do so by abolishing, say, nursing and engineering, if those numbers end up even close to accurate. It’s misleading, as however it ends up, the budget operations will absorb cuts and allocate revenues in the most efficient distributions possible to maintain high quality educational and research activities.

Also note that, if budget cuts were similar, UNC’s smaller size could mean it suffers proportionately more (the larger the campus and research parks, the more cushion there is to absorb potential cuts).

Given the reputations and traditions of both UW and UNC, I still do not see the quality of education on offer at either suffering much, if at all.