Rutgers - A public ivy?

mcnea1958
Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:42:50 +0000

It is really amazing to me that a bunch of teenagers think they know how to judge colleges and universities. By everyone who matters in the professional world, Rutgers is an excellent school. Their graduates go on to do great things, and Rutgers has one of the most successful rates with their students getting accepted and completing graduate and professional schools at some the most prestigous universities in the USA and Canada (McGill University). Be very careful listening to unresearched information. Rutgers has a history of excellent. I am an alumnus Harvard and Princeton, and if my kids decide to attend Rutgers, I would be a very proud parent. Rutgers is tops in English, Math, Physics, Foreign Languages (French, Spanish and Italian), Women Studies, Philosophy, Fine Arts) and the list goes on and on. Rutgers alumni also receive one of the highest salary in the nation. The school’s return on salary based on cost to go to Rutgers is outstanding. Also their law school graduates are outstanding legal scholars, many teach law and sit on the some of the highest courts of the land. Do your homework. Yes, UNC, UC Berk Mich, WM, UCLA, ILL, are all great schools, however, Rutgers is just as well known as those schools, and has a living and very active alumni to prove it. If all of this was not true, Rutgers would not be able to attract some of the best minds on their faculty. In many departments, Rutgers faculty can not be matched. It has one of the largest body of world renowned scholars, so you tell me is Rutgers an excellent school.

Finally, if Rutgers were not an excellent school, please explain to me why so many Ivy alumni flock there to teach. In every department, more than half of their faculty members are alumni for Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Penn, and so on.