MIT or Stanford for EE

zephyr151
Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:09:30 +0000

“Zephyr, do you know about what percentage of Stanford Undergrads have research opportunities? I’ve heard that about 80% of MIT undergrads do, and the work is really involved in the research itself; in what ways is the research better?”
It is my understanding that because Stanford’s graduate science programs are not as dominant, there are more opportunities for undergrads. There are millions of dollar available for individual grants for undergrads.

As for the 80% figure, I don’t know if that’s true, but it’s hard to compare to Stanford because a lot of kids are, of course, in the humanities where research is less important.

Here’s a couple of links which might help you (I am an editor at SURJ):
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/urp/
http://surj.stanford.edu/
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/urp/StudentGrants/

As for Pebbles’s comments, of course I would. Research is one of the reasons why I chose Stanford.