Science and Tech Schools Ranked by Math SAT

monydad
Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:37:49 +0000

"Just about everything good about a school is related to the quality of the student body. "

Well, I think some people would say actually offering courses in your chosen field of study helps too. As a possibly interesting follow-up exercise you might list the # engineering courses actually being offered this Spring semester at each school, and the # professors in their engineering department. I think there may be some surprises there, to some people. A program can’t be considered good if they barely teach anything. Even if they are teaching their few tidbits to very smart students.

I guess rogracer’s point woud be what survives to the end may not be the same as what goes in. Good point, especially for the state U’s with high attrition. Would be an even better point if every grad had to take the GRE, not just the self-selected minority with high enough grades to even contemplate grad school, and interest in doing so.

But as for the cherry-picked top of the class, I can well imagine that they are completely comparable. Certainly the work place at my former engineering firm was dominated by smart state u grads.