{"id":12176,"date":"2016-12-23T00:30:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pratikkataria.com\/blog\/?p=12176"},"modified":"2020-01-18T21:35:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T16:05:06","slug":"umn-twin-cities-vs-vt-vs-ncsu-vs-stony-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pratikkataria.com\/blog\/umn-twin-cities-vs-vt-vs-ncsu-vs-stony-brook\/","title":{"rendered":"UMN Twin Cities v\/s VT v\/s NCSU v\/s Stony Brook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:20px;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:10px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:0px;\"><h3 class=\"title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:27;--minFontSize:27px;line-height:1.41;\"><p>Battle Compare Amongst:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>University of Minnesota &#8211; Twin Cities<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Tech<\/li>\n<li>North Carolina State University<\/li>\n<li>Stony Brook<\/li>\n<li>University at Buffalo<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/h3><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#ffffff;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Back in 2014 (Data is till 2014 only), when I was making a decision to choose in between these 5\u00a0universities for Undergraduation in US, I researched a lot. I never really went to US due to financial crisis but it would be awesome to help someone deciding on any of these universities.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of ranking and reviewing sites which I refered for accumulating this data. The only way I could compare so much of data was by putting it in Excel Sheet and color coding it.<br \/>\nThe colors I used are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"color: #dadada;\">White &#8211; Neutral<\/li>\n<li style=\"color: #e2413e;\">Red &#8211; Bad<\/li>\n<li style=\"color: #f8de73;\">Yellow &#8211; Okay<\/li>\n<li style=\"color: #c1d83b;\">Green &#8211; Good<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now this coding is as per my view.<\/p>\n<\/div><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- Blog Ad Unit -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7306878090594941\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"3695848115\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>The Excel Sheet includes data on following attributes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CS Major %<\/li>\n<li>Popular Major and %<\/li>\n<li>Setting<\/li>\n<li>White %<\/li>\n<li>Out of state cost, estimated total ~ Bigfuture<\/li>\n<li>Undrgrad Population<\/li>\n<li>Weather Yearly Stats<\/li>\n<li>Min. and Max. Temp.<\/li>\n<li>Cappex Rating (out of 5)<\/li>\n<li>No. of Cappex Reviews<\/li>\n<li>Cost of Living Index<\/li>\n<li>National Rank USNEWS<\/li>\n<li>CS Dept. 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