MIT or Stanford for EE

sakky
Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:35:35 +0000

I agree with pebbles. I think there are research opportunities at Stanford for undergrads, but I think it’s hard to content that there are more such opportunities at Stanford than there are at MIT. I have seen no evidence that this is the case.

I would also point out that MIT also has plenty of economics and political science research opportunities available. The grad MIT economics department is not only ranked #1 now, but has a relatively small undergrad enrollment, meaning you won’t be competing with lots of other undergrads for research spots. Don’t deride MIT polisci - the grad department is now ranked #10, equal to or higher than such places as Columbia, Penn, Duke, Northwestern and Cornell. Granted, these are grad rankings, but indications are that the undergrad econ and poli-sci programs at MIT are extremely solid. Besides, you can always just cross-reg at Harvard.