Do graduate students overshadow the undergrads?

snoozn
Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:39:22 +0000

My daughter is a high school junior interested in Illinois Tech with a major in electrical engineering. We both like most of what we’ve read about the school, but we are also both concerned about the large percentage of graduate students (I think it’s about 50/50). A lot of schools make a point that they have few or no grad students which gives undergrads more opportunities for research and getting to know profs. She definitely wants to do research in her field and has found a number of professors she might want to work with and research centers/labs she is interested in exploring.

So, what do students think? Do the grad students get most of the attention or is the division pretty equal?