Good university for physics major

amykins
Sat, 19 May 2007 11:43:53 +0000

Any of these universities mentioned will be able to give you what you want (subtract MIT and CalTech if you’re looking for social sciences/humanities).

Cornell quietly offers some the best academic experiences in the nation, (I’m saying this through my brother, who graduated this year, who enjoyed his classes and the people who taught them), but not the intellectual life of some of the other schools. If you want to be at a school that has strong academics but is extremely intellectual (i.e. students are having a conversation about who hooked up with whom at a frat party and slowly the conversation turns to the Great Vowel Shift or Karl Marx), PM me and I’ll tell you all about Chicago.

If you’re looking for a mix of academics and a more toned-down intellectual scene, I would say Berkeley/Harvard/Yale/Stanford/Princeton.