Virginia Tech vs. James Madison University

mephist0
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:16:37 +0000

From a Northern VA student’s perspective, VT has slightly more prestige/desirability among HS students (which doesn’t matter much, but does reflect their prestige to an extent, especially in NOVA)
JMU is a safety school for people applying to UVA/W&M and top OOS schools, while VT is more of an alternative to UVA/WM for science/engineering type people. VT has more national name recognition, in part because of it’s major football team. Unfortunately, the shooting there contributed to this.

I haven’t met anyone who went to either school that wasn’t 100% happy with their choice BTW.