The trend from national surveys and performance, VT graduates are being offered employment much earlier than typical UVA graduate and are being offered much higher salaries than their UVA counterparts. Also the university footprint on research is dwa5rfing UVA.

VT is in it for the long game, UVA riding on past perceptions. Frankly within 20 years when VT is a huge world class land grant university with 45000 students, UVA will still be praying to Mr, Jefferson as a niche university of 18,000.