Has Poly been improving since it's been affiliated with nyu?

nycityengineer
Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:59:06 +0000

Thank you for your reply anialways. The help is much appreciated. ROI is absolutely at the center of my thinking (my feeling is: you can learn in a public library, college is about getting an institution with some well-earned credibility to vouch for your skills so you’ll get the chance to capitalize on them), so after reading the wikipedia page, advantage definitely goes to Poly in that regard.

However I suspect for any given individual the advantage is not so pronounced. If any college was judged only by its engineering majors, and then only by those who work in big cities like New York, it would probably place very well in ROI rankings. Poly’s excellent ROI numbers are likely confounded by the fact that they just happen to mostly serve the particular demographic who get the best returns at any college.

Do you happen to have any insight about the quality of the faculty or the effectiveness of the services (like career placement, internships, tutoring, etc)?

I’m really interested in the health of the institution. Aside from reputation, the reason I’d prefer to transfer somewhere besides City College is my experience with CUNY so far has been a Kafkaesque nightmare of disjointed bureaucracy and burnt-out/under-educated professors. My main fear is that I’ll end up paying 4 times as much for the same level of incompetence.

Also if anyone reading this has a “before NYU and after NYU” perspective any information or advice would be especially welcome. It occurs to me you might be best suited to judge if actual improvement has taken place since the merger was announced that justifies the better rankings and prestige.