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<p>These three schools illustrate why the class of “non-PhD-granting schools with engineering” is not one with a lot of common ground. SJSU is a large school with a large selection of majors, while MSOE and RHIT are small engineering focused schools.</p>
<p>Non-PhD-granting schools won’t have the multitude of PhD students to provide a large supply of TAs, so the typical research university format of the main class led by a faculty member with discussion and lab sections led by TAs is less common at non-PhD-granting schools. However, some schools make extensive use of adjunct faculty, as opposed to regular tenured or tenure-track faculty.</p>