Can I transfer from Emory Oxford to Main Campus?

bernie12
Thu, 05 Jun 2014 19:50:30 +0000

They really shouldn’t unless you are more serious and are into more quantitative biology or chemistry or something. Oxford educates in biology at the intermediate and introductory levels significantly better overall though Emory does have some hidden and feared gems. Science education at Oxford on the whole is just much more consistent and better across the board (the lab components are vastly superior at Oxford). Main campus has to spend tons of money to drive innovation in science education (and it’s hard to convince instructors to participate because this is not a teaching centered institution and teaching more effectively usually lowers student evaluation scores and takes more time away from research or other administrative duties) whereas Oxford just more or less does it (I mean main campus actually now has set up a commission on improving undergraduate science education. If it was so awesome, why the need for a taskforce? In addition, this particular committee has not produced a summary/white paper yet whereas all of the other new task force committees have) I need not even bother mentioning how much richer many humanities courses would be at Oxford, though I suppose you would miss an opportunity at maybe doing the voluntary core on main which has like the best teachers teaching courses centered around the great works. However, Oxford has the INQ models for a lot of courses and is also liberal arts intensive so even non-INQ courses will probably turn out better than the average humanities course (many of which are just known for easy grading and low workload and that’s perhaps the only reason students view them favorably. However, there are of course tons of exceptions to this and departments like creative writing, Polisci, and English are pretty rigorous vs. expectations. But again, at Oxford, I believe the “meh” caliber or intensity courses are more of an exception) on main. Your parents, like the students, have bought the rankings and prestige hype. They bought the kool-aid and drank it. They, nor most incoming students can’t help it unfortunately.