<p>Branching out of engineering is where you’ll find the biggest difference between VT and GT. If you want to branch out into strategy consulting (working with large companies and private equity firms to tell them what to do with their company - that’s where you make big money), the Big 3 (Bain, McKinsey, BCG) recruit Georgia Tech but not Virginia Tech. In fact, McKinsey (the largest strategy firm in the world and one of the most prestigious companies in the world) only recruits from about 10 schools (Harvard, Penn, UVA, Duke, etc) including Georgia Tech. There are parallels in i-banking, as well. Neither school is particularly strong in Venture Capital work. To do that sort of work, you generally want to go to a school close to the VC firms (in San Francisco or near New York or Boston). Georgia Tech’s name also carries you farther in grad school applications, whether for engineering, law, businesses, or medicine.</p>
<p>Where the schools are closer are for traditionally plant engineering positions. VT is not as heavily recruited as GT, but it’s fairly heavily recruited by traditional engineering employers because of it’s size. As a result, you’ll see many of the same traditional engineering positions at VT and GT.</p>