<p>on us news and world report</p>
<p>they are ranked 41 and 44 in the country</p>
<p>?</p>
<p>Define better, and you might get an answer that is meaningful.</p>
<p>If you’re going into business, then Stern is in NYC and that likely matters. If you’re able to get into Tisch, it’s also in NYC and has stronger alumni connections, though talent in those fields matters more than your degree. </p>
<p>NYU is more selective but that seems largely to be a function of where it is, that NYC has few schools - especially given its vast population - and that is popular with people in the New York area. They give out very little information - that I’ve found - about their sources but, for example, NYU is 28% Jewish and roughly half of America’s Jews live in NYC so it seems that NYU is a desirable school for that group. (I’m Jewish, btw, so I’m not making any kind of derogatory statement. BU, btw, is much less Jewish by percentage, somewhere under 18%.) Boston, by contrast, is small, with the entire metro area having about the same number as Brooklyn and Staten Island. Boston proper has only 100,000 or so more people than Staten Island, but the city and area are full of schools.</p>
<p>political science</p>
<p>If you are asking which is better for poli sci, you might get an answer. However it is the wrong question if you are trying to decide where to go undergrad. Poli sci departments are generally good at most decent schools for undergrad. There are very few cases where a student should decide where to go based on what major they think they will have. Go to the school that fits you best overall based on size, location, quality of the other students, weather, personal economics, whatever. As an undergrad you would hardly notice the difference in these two poli sci departments.</p>
<p>Yep. You won’t likely see a difference. You should, however, look through the websites and the bulletins to see what is offered.</p>
<p>Just curious as to what rankings you’re looking at? On the US News website, I see NYU as #32 and BU as #56.</p>
<p>(Not trying to be snarky here - BU was a top choice for 1st child and 2nd child is considering it as well.)</p>
<p>I didn’t even check out what rankings or the accuracy of the statement because for undergraduate educations, rankings are actually harmful as opposed to useful. Any school in the top 100 can give a student a great education if they want it. What is far more important is which school fits them best in terms of intellectual challenge, atmosphere (size, location, sports, quality of facilities) and just plain feel. I know it isn’t possible for a lot of kids to visit every school they are thinking about, but it would be great.</p>
<p>it says BU is 35 on wikipedia</p>
<p>Rankings are garbage but in any event the difference would be between categories of schools, so one might say - if one believes in the criteria - that school #5 certainly has more prestige than school #70. The differences in groups - like 28 to 40 or 37 to 53 or whatever - is by the nature of rankings very small. (If you look at the USNews released info, which is not much, then you see they assign values for some metrics of 1 to 4 or the like so the differences are likely .1 or some other minimal number.)</p>
<p>I think you are looking at the international listing. On the national listing, NYU is quite a bit ahead of BU - but IMHO you shouldn’t base your decision solely on rankings. Just visit the two and see which environment you like better.</p>
<p>lol wikipedia. (seriously?)</p>
<p>As long as it has a citation, there is nothing wrong with Wikipedia. You just have to check the citation to see if it is credible.</p>
<p>… and also follow the citation to check whether it actually says what the article claims. that’s the job of peer review (not that peer review does it perfectly).</p>
<p>yea but usually these kinda things on wiki are outdated. and no one actually goes and checkes the citations when there are looking these things up just go to the actual source BU is not 35</p>