(03-12-2020 02:43 PM)NJ2MDTerp Wrote: State = 156,000
UNC = 335,000
UVA = 230,000
How the heck does UNC, an academically selective school with a small enrollment, have more than twice as many alumni as State? It seems top me UNC should be above UVA, and State should be close to College Park which has 352,000 alumni.
That's wrong.
State has 257K alums. 160K alums live in NC, that's where the faulty number comes from
Never use wiki for NC State info.
https://www.ncsu.edu/about/rankings/
State does an amazingly piss poor job of promoting itself and for decades has taken the posture that everyone just knows where their food, clothing, housing, streets, water, etc., etc., come from and appreciates the source of the expertise.
The truth is that the real public interface is with graduates in the following professional schools - Medical, Dental, Veterinary, Nursing, Law, Public Health, etc., etc.
That's one of the reasons why VT pursued the Carrilion Medical School initiative 15 years ago. People remember the medical doctor that helped them and the lawyer that saved their ass. They have no idea who saved a sweet potato crop, built a better reactor, developed a synthetic material, or a built better egg carton.
The average Big 10 school has about 450K living alums.
In the SEC Georgia has 327K and Tennessee 387K. TAMU has about 515K. Vandy has about 140K.
The ACC averages about 230K living alums per school @3.2 million total
The SEC averages about 300K living alums per school @4.2 million total
The B10 like I said is over $450K per school @ 6.3 million total
Put another way the ACC has 76% of the alums of the SEC, and just 51% of the alums of the B10.
