UVA vs. NYU Stern

thealbatross
Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:50:14 +0000

In terms of majors, business at UVA is number 2, arguably number 1 in the nation. Wharton and McIntire are very close in terms of quality. The sciences at UVA are also wonderful.



This isn’t true. McIntire is an excellent business school, and definitely top 10. However, the Business Week rankings are complete ******** and everyone knows it. McIntire is not ‘arguably’ number 1, nor is it close. Wharton is the CLEAR number one, then there’s a gap, then there’s schools like Ross and Sloan, followed by Stern and Haas. Following that would be schools like McIntire.



The UVA Alumni network is arguably the best public University network in the nation. It has the highest endowment of all public Universities at somewhere near 4.5 billion (Around 200 thousand dollars per attending student!). University of Michigan-Ann Arbor is in second, with only half the amount of endowment.



I’m not arguing against the UVa Alumni network being amazing (because I’m sure it is), but I don’t know where you’re getting your figure from? Michigan’s endowment is like 6th or 7th in the nation, at around 6.5 billion or something like that. So I don’t know where you’re getting that ‘half’ estimate. However, the amount per student is probably a little bit higher, because I think Michigan’s is something like 180k or around there.