well travelled pony wrote:ecu is close to tech, but better. Yes, kids may land there, but some of their programs are top notch, plus the medical school and center are excellent. One drawback they have is endowment is small.
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Better? That is a very subjective statement. USNEWS puts Tech at #160 (71.7% accepted) and ECU #194 (69.5% accepted). Tech endowment: $434 mill, ECU: $98 mill. Both have an associated medical school. Tech's research is "high activity," did not see what ECU was. ECU has 27k students and Tech has 31k students. Hard to say ECU is better by those numbers. In football talk Ruffin McNeal the interim head coach after the Mike Leach firing is now the head coach of ECU. Schools seem very similar in where they are positioned in their respective states, with tech pulling way ahead in funds and research grants. If they were closer geographically they seem like they would make great rivals.
