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coz anyones gonna take a student who has done engg from harvard over a student from gtech even though gtech teaching is better?]
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Is the Gtech teaching really better than Harvard's, even in engineering?
Let me put it to you this way. Caltech is a superbly prestigious research powerhouse when it comes to science and engineering. But many if not most Caltech students will concede that the actual teaching is mediocre at best. The RESEARCH at Caltech is great. But the teaching? You can even go to the Caltech section of this forum and ask the current students, and even they will admit that on average, Caltech teaching isn't the best. Sure, there are some Caltech profs who are good teachers, but there are many others who are not so good at teaching. They're great at research, but when it comes to teaching, not so much.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to put down Caltech. Indeed Caltech has many great things about it. It's just that actual teaching skill is not one of them.
So I ask, why do you say that the Gtech engineering teaching is going to be necessarily better than Harvard engineering teaching. I would agree that the Gtech research might be better, but the teaching? I don't know about that. You gotta remember that these profs are hired and promoted not because they're good teachers, but because they're good researchers.