re: why do some people on here say that Florida

My original post (the one quoted) wasn't specifically addressing the engineering program. That's like saying ULL is better than LSU because the computer program (whatever the frick it's called, computer science?) is superior to ours. You can't nitpick; LSU is, in general, less respected for it's scholastics than the University of Florida. I'm saying this as a Florida resident, accepted to both schools, who chose LSU.


LSUGrad, I don't care if your VP of HR at fricking Microsoft, your opinion as an "employer" is not the fricking national consensus. By the way, since we're bragging on the internet, I'm 22 years old, make 10 million a year, and frick Brazilian supermodels. Everyone please respect my opinion!

I read it as you said an engineering one wasn't marketable. I of course agree with the fact LSU is not that great of a school overall. The state legislature needs to let LSU charge what they need to for them to become better.

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Good talking to you too. By the way, one of my very best friends graduated from Rutgers in finance. He is one of the nicest, most intelligent guys I know.

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I actually go to Rhodes, but the Rutgers "R" looks almost identical.

As the famed Architect Paul Rudolph said, 'It doesn't matter where you go to school, as long as you find out what you need to know' and as Huey Long once said, 'Every man a King'!.

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I love it when a clueless geek falls for the phony bone misspelling trap.

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It was a jeer at the guy, hope he didn't graduate from college yet. That sentence didn't look intentionally mis-spelled, looked like they didn't know how to spell.

like others have said, it's all about what you do with your education. I interviewed a guy for a project engineering position who had a BSEE and a BSME from LSU and a MSEE from Ga Tech, + he had been in the field for 15 years.

He didn't have a clue. Needless to say he didn't get the job.

So you can never tell just because a person has that piece of paper. It opens doors, but it's up to you to get through them.

LSU gets little financial support from the state and from its' alumni.

TX A&M raises $90,000 per student each year.
LSU raises $9,000. I think UF is around $20,000.

This has a lot to do with the rankings in one way or another.

We are not going to have a great ranking when tuition increases are capped at 5%. In Texas,
there is no cap and the legislature does not monkey with it. Each school has the authority to set it's own rates. UT/A&M have not had a single digit increase in at least 6 or 7 years. LSU has never had a double digit increase. UT/A&M has a permanent fund which owns assets worth around $30 billion. It was set up in the 1800s. The corrupt politicians have squandered everything LSU may have once had as a permanent fund.

Plus the state is now cutting the LSU budget by 30 - 40 million.

It's all about the $$$$$ and LSU is falling short. In fact the stated goal is to one day reach the southern average, which is low compared to the national average.

When your leaders state that one day they hope to be average, you are not going to get much respect from any rating organizations. That's the same as saying we're not even going to try.

LSU has a lot of potential, but it will never reach it or be recognized until it is properly funded.

That video is so damned discouraging. I can't believe that an illiterate like her actually has the power to control many aspects of my life. What an absolute joke.

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It's not like either is the top academic school in the nation.

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It has one of the finest public business schools in the nation.

I'm in Jacksonvile, Fl. and i'm the biggest LSU sports fan there is but it cracks me up to come on this board and see how LSU people believe they are an academic school compared with the upper sec academic schools. I worked in baton rouge as a business analyst with three LSU grads and they didn't know shite so i had to do my work plus theres.What criteria do you need to get into LSU? i believe be a LA. resident and have some easily achievable score to qualify to go. There is literally no competiton to get in. Hate to burst you academic genius bubbles but outside of Louisiana you guys are up there with Moo State.

This is one of the fundamentals of being a top flight school because the university of Florida has stiff competition meaning that to get in you have to go above and beyond the average things such as grade point average. LSU has little competiton except maybe there vet school and maybe even there law school but overall not hard at all to get accepted. Just fill out application and like magic your in.