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NC has one of the best school clusters of schools in the nation, plus I'm bias, so I give it to NC. I have heard that William & Mary, University of Virginia-Charlottesville are good though.
The University of Virginia is consistently rated as one of the best public universities and on a par with privates. How can a school founded by Mr. Jefferson be beat? Academics are known to be in the top level but most don't know that UVA's athletic program is usually in the top of the county. Last year(2014) UVA finished #4 in athletics and would have been #1 had they won the baseball World Series instead of coming in #2.
Virgnia Tech, UVA, UNC Chapel Hill, and NC State are the ones with the most name recognition and graduates. UNC-Charlotte has a decent reputation for engineering.
I would only consider NC STate, UNC, UNC-Charlotte, and East Carolina if I lived in NC.
Virginia I would have either done UVA or Virginia Tech, most likely Tech. Maybe William and Mary.
UNC and UVA are supposedly hard to get into so not sure if you can really count on those being options.
The others I think that people outside of NC and VA may have heard of if they follow college basketball.
I thought a lot of those schools in Va like William and Mary, and James Madison, were private schools.
The only public university of note in North Carolina is UNC-Chapel Hill. And it's a very good school.
Although I admit that I thought the North Carolina School of the Arts was a high school!
The really notable thing is that--aside from UVA, William & Mary, and UNC--there are no other top-notch public universities in the South at all. The closest also-ran is probably Georgia Tech; that's a pretty decent school.
NCSU, UT Austin?
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