<p>MIT has 370 faculty members in engineering, while Stanford has 240.</p>
<p>MIT has 110 faculty in national academy of engineering, while stanford has 92.</p>
<p>MIT is ranked #1 by usnews, while Stanford is #2</p>
<p>In the National research ranking released in 2010, Stanford ranks better than MIT in computer science, electrical engineering, industrial engineering/operations research, and Aerospace engineering. </p>
<p>MIT wins in chemecal engineering, civil engineering, material engineering, and biomedical engineering.</p>
<p>For mechanical engineering, MIT is better in R-rank. Stanford is better in S-rank.</p>
<p>Stanford’s Bio-engineering is not ranked because when NRC collected data in 2005. That department was only 2 years old and no sufficient data available at that time.</p>
<p>By the way, MIT is great. But thinking it is a perfect engineering school is wrong. </p>
<p>FYI, I have been taking classes from MIT CSAIL. Those courses are great, very challenging and stimulating. But still, I sometimes wonder what if I am attending classes from Stanford.</p>
<p>^^ actually for civil engineering, it’s the same as ME: MIT is better for R-rank, Stanford for S-rank. In fact, after glancing at the different engineering rankings, I think that if someone did the analysis in the new NRC rankings, they might find that Stanford pulls ahead of MIT overall in engineering.</p>
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<li>I doubt it–both MIT and Stanford are the two best schools for engineering.</li>
<li>I think that depends on how seriously you want to pursue squash. Do you want to be on a varsity team? The club team at Stanford also plays other teams.</li>
<li>Not sure which one is easier, but a few things: Stanford is on the quarter system, so you’ll have the opportunity to take more classes. You’ll also be able to design your own major (Stanford encourages interdisciplinary study). Double majoring with two sciences or engineering+social science is rather common.</li>
<li>Not sure which has more, but Stanford currently requires 3 introductory humanities classes, plus another class satisfying the humanities distribution requirement. This might not matter to you, since Stanford’s also doing an overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum (the main change being fewer requirements), so it’s likely to change soon.</li>
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<p>(By the way, I’m finishing at Stanford now and might be attending MIT for PhD)</p>
It’s reasonably common to double-major at MIT – you just need to complete the required courses for two majors, and if they have overlapping requirements, you can count those courses toward both majors.</p>
<p>phantasmagoric,
I still didn’t get you. I may want to play squash on a serious team. Can one say that a club at Stanford is equivalent to an MIT’s varsity team? and how does the quarter system help (you mean it’s easier to get grades)?</p>
<p>Also, for waht you and molliebatmit say, do you mean that one takes more humanities at MIT?</p>
<p>sure MIT may have a lot of different things like business school and political science and they do have sports teams, but how often do you ask someone where they got there business degree from and they say MIT. MIT has its prestigious reputation in science and engineering. Stanford has more of a well rounded reputation</p>
<p>I have always been attracted to MIT’s rigorous curriculum,but i am interested in creating a startup oneday and Stanford wins in startup culture to the best of my knowledge.</p>
<p>This is very, very, very wrong. According to US News & WR (Yes, I know there methodology may well be flawed). The top 3 business schools in the US today are Harvard, Stanford and MIT. I know heaps of people who are very proud that they got their MBA at MIT.</p>
<p>That is not to say that their is anything at all wrong with Stanford. It is a superb school, and may well be a great choice. There is no such thing as a “best” school, though there may be a “best” school for any individual student. There are certainly a wide variety of things that Stanford can offer that MIT cannot (such as a heaving stadium of people cheering on the Division I football team). However, to suggest that MIT’s business school is not up to scratch is very much mistaken.</p>
<p>I had to make that choice one day, i picked MIT for the start-up culture. Here’s a short analysis:
1-Boston is the best place for biotechnology investment.
2-MIT lets its undergrads take business classes in Sloan, Stanford less so.
3-MIT offers many contests for start-ups that undergrads are allowed to participate in, such as seed grants and 100K contest and many many many many others. you will keep on receiving emails of business contests and mixers when ur in MIT.
4- MIT alumni founded 26000 companies, Stanford 4500.
5-Stanford produced google, sun, cisco, and yahoo. MIT produced Koch industries, Intel, Raytheon, akamai, and mcdonnel douglas. All of these are/were multibillionaire companies, and each was a leader in its field. Yet, while Stanford only produced famous CS companies, MIT produced more diverse business leaders (Koch for chemical, intel for electrics, mcdonnel for planes, now it merged with beoing, raytheon for weapons…)
6- Many MIT classes encourage entrepreneurship, and even after classes sometimes groups may proceed with their ideas.
7-More room for innovation in mIT due to more engineers and hardcore nerds who are ready to work really hard.
8- Silicon Valley remains the top CS hub.
9-MIT undergrad course 15 major is seen as the second best undergrad business degree in the US after Wharton, significantly ahead of stanford. For grad, the consensus is that they are almost equal but Stanford takes a slight edge (although i have seen rankings placing MIT higher for grad, such as ARWU ranking and QS for grad finance and administration)
10. MIT Sloan has the widest range of electives of any school and has more number 1 ranked programs than other business school in the world (supply chains and informatix, logistics, production operations). Both QS and US News attest to that, and from my experience the consensus seems to be that.
11. MIT students to think more ahead of their time… they truly believe in science</p>