Wisconsin Madison vs. Ohio State

MilwDad
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:42:31 +0000

It completely eludes me why you would take a random shot at UW Milwaukee here. It’s entirely out of context in this thread. Moreover, by your own logic UW-Madison is not in UW-Milwaukee’s league, either, as their missions are indeed different. UW-Madison is a great public flagship University. UW-Milwaukee is a great public urban University. A student of architecture, water engineering, urban ecology, film production, theater, music, public safety or library science, just to name a few areas, might well be better served at Milwaukee than at Madison because the programs are better (or because there are no such programs at Madison). Some students just want to live in a larger, more diverse, more exciting city than Madison. Different Universities have different strengths. That’s one of the essential purposes to having a state University system, instead of just having a one size fits all institution. No University “fits all,” no matter the talent level of the student.