re: Which school in the SEC would you send your children?

I'm sure you could find at least a couple majors from each school that they are at the top of the SEC/country in. Obviously some of them aren't as viable in terms of a career choice, but it is something to consider.

Frankly, short of maybe Vandy, I really don't think you are going to see that big of a difference in terms of quality of education for many of the mainstream majors. For example, if you were majoring in engineering at, say, South Carolina and you were magically transformed over to a class at Auburn, I really don't think you would suddenly realize "Wow! Auburn's engineering program is much better!"

I got my engineering undergrad at Arky and am currently in grad school at a top 5 engineering program and I really can't tell the difference in terms of curriculum quality, research ability, faculty, or even class size.

In short, I would support my kid if they went to any school in the SEC. I feel that they are all good schools and hard work will pay off in the end no matter what diploma they are carrying.