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The Triangle is the most educated but seems more nerdy than "creative".
I've been looking for the word that's on the tip of my tongue that continues to escape me; and it isn't a pejorative or insult, but you're capturing where my thought process lies. I'm not sure "nerdy" is the word either but people are conflating characteristics here, The Triangle certainly isn't as roundly creative as being given credit for in this thread...
I agree with you about Savannah. But LSU is not a "very prestigious university." It isn't even just plain prestigious. Except for Vandy there simply is no SEC school that is truly academically prestigious. That's not their thing, it's not how they make their money, and it's not what people know them for. Most of them are perfectly decent state universities, but none are even remotely close to truly prestigious schools like Duke, the Ivies, Vandy, U of Chicago, Stanford, and even prestigious state schools like UNC, Michigan, Cal-Berkely, CU-Boulder, UT-Austin, etc.
If you name Cu-Boulder and even UT-Austin, I think UGA and UF definitely deserves to mention along them.
Actually UT and Boulder shouldn’t be on that list at all. They are very good public schools but aren’t prestigious like UNC, UVA, Berkeley and W&M.
You must have meant to write "LSU is considered a very prestigious university within the state of Louisiana" because there's objective way it could be considered a prestigious university nationally.
Actually UT and Boulder shouldn’t be on that list at all. They are very good public schools but aren’t prestigious like UNC, UVA, Berkeley and W&M.
I don't know. If you look at many other lists other than USNews, UT-Austin is right up there with at least UNC.
Actually UT and Boulder shouldn’t be on that list at all. They are very good public schools but aren’t prestigious like UNC, UVA, Berkeley and W&M.
I think your Virginia bias is showing - while overall university rankings all have problems, the gold standard for university rankings is the one produced by the London Times which ranks the best 200 universities in the world. The ranking has a slight science and technology bias. Of the ones you mention:
I think your Virginia bias is showing - while overall university rankings all have problems, the gold standard for university rankings is the one produced by the London Times which ranks the best 200 universities in the world. The ranking has a slight science and technology bias. Of the ones you mention:
W&M does not make the top two hundred universities in the world...
Yeah, William and Mary is definitely not more prestigious than, say, LSU, much less UT Austin or CU Boulder. UVA, on the other hand, definitely is. I don't know why W&M got sucked into this discussion.
William and Mary is definitely not more prestigious than, say, LSU,
William & Mary is definitely more prestigious than LSU. Students in the bottom quartile at W&M score 170 points higher on the SAT than students at the bottom quartile at LSU. And predictably, a W&M degree will serve you better in tighter, more competitive job market markets (NYC, DC, SF, LA, etc.) compared to an LSU degree that carries little weight outside of Louisiana and Texas.
LSU is closer to the bottom of the rankings for SEC schools, which is saying a lot for a conference of schools known more for football than academics.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges...ies/top-public
Public universities in 2019
UVA #4
W&M #10
LSU # 70
Boulder is around #40
UT Austin # 15 (thanks for the lessen on this, I had no idea it was so highly ranked, I knew it was a good school but not this good)
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