FSU (honors) vs UF

goufgators
Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:32:49 +0000

rodfrommiami, sorry but I completely disagree that going to school’s honors program while studying, say engineering, is better than getting an engineering degree from a higher ranked school while not being enrolled in its honors program.

The reason is that honor program classes only cover pre-reqs classes. When you get into your core classes of your major, you take the same classes as everyone else who is taking the same core classes. In the example of engineering, UF’s college of engineering is ranked high because of its core classes… not because of how good the, say, calculus program is… does that make sense?

The honors program is beneficial only for your pre-req courses… So what you’re trading off is core classes (that everyone takes) from a higher-ranked college/major for honors classes in pre-reqs (like calc).