Duke vs. Harvard/Princeton (Complicated)

sakky
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:17:48 +0000

Sakky: We are talking about undergrad, .



So then let’s talk about the undergrad engineering rankings then. What exactly is the difference between Duke and Harvard when it comes to undergrad engineering? It’s not that large, when you consider that there are literally hundreds and hundreds of engineering programs out there, and there is certainly no call for such verbiage such as “sucks for any type of engineering”. After all, if Harvard sucks for engineering, then what does that say for the hundreds of engineering programs that are ranked even lower?



sorry if I hurt your feelings



Trust me, it takes a heck of a lot more than that to hurt my feelings.

But I would warn you that when you go to the workforce, you’re inevitably going to be working with people who went to schools that are not highly ranked. For example, I was recently working with a guy who went to Southern Utah University (SUU). I had never even heard of SUU before. Yet he’s a very competent guy. But it certainly would not have helped matters if I had adopted the arrogant attitude that this guy went to a school that “completely sucks”.