<p>size is a positive for michigan, that’s why it has highly ranked programs across the board. some fields like engineering, the ivies will never do well in, because they simply don’t put enough money into it, the engineering facilities, equipments are very expensive to buy and maintain. Obviously Cornell and Princeton are exceptions, because they have some size in their engineering departments. </p>
<p>I’ll give you one example, the Ford nuclear reactor at Michigan on north campus, was a valuable learning tool for engineering students. </p>
<p>If you walk into Civil Engineering side of GG Brown building, you’ll see the structural engineering lab, which looks like this:</p>
<p>[UM</a> Civil and Environmental Engineering: Structural Engineering Laboratory](<a href=“http://cee.engin.umich.edu/research/sme/facilities/sel.html]UM”>http://cee.engin.umich.edu/research/sme/facilities/sel.html)</p>