Dartmouth vs Cornell

gomestar
Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:32:37 +0000

“Elite graduate school’s appreciate dartmouth graduates much more.”

Not really. It was already mentioned, but keep in mind the variety of majors available at Cornell. It’s not a fair or valid comparison if you don’t. For instance, most Hotel administration majors don’t need to go to grad school. The same holds true for ILR, engineering, and architecture. Engineering alone accounts for around 3-4,000 students. The same can be held true for other majors at Cornell such as business (AEM), and the agricultural field. If you want to compare grad school placement rates between the two schools, limit Cornell to only Arts and Sciences. This will give a much more accurate number. I believe arts and sciences has around 4,000 students. Dartmouth doesn’t have the large number of professional programs that Cornell does (this isn’t a bad thing in any way), it just tends to skew the numbers when you compare the placement of programs to one another.

Xine makes some good points, though i certainly wouldn’t use that list as an “end all” indicator of the quality of these two elite colleges.