@Nocreativity1 If you believe in the National rankings why is it not important for a student to pay attention to the underlying rankings of what they want to study??
Why should a student ignore this exactly?? IF the question is Engineering between the 2 schools isn’t it clear?? And since you entered Finance I think it is very clear as well.
Private Banker disingenuous at best. On three threads you have placed Duke behind U Michigan , Berkley and Wash U. Not to mention the post you sight goes to great lengths to suggest Duke positive reputation is misplaced and a function of patents misplaced loyalty to Duke.
Fox Ruiz on your first point agreed I don’t claim any engineering knowledge. Ny comments were general reputation. On your second point Duke doesn’t have a finance degree. Their economics and finance department however is ranked number one.
Not disingenuous just an actual factual quote. And if you don’t think people come on here with biases and decision creep. We just disagree. And in those three cases it was advice and opinion. Nothing more and nothing less.
Privatebanker thanks for calling it what is is. Yours is a biased view not the independent thinker you referenced yourself as earlier. A truly independent thinker doesn’t allow biases to form their opinions.
Now. That’s not nice. If I think duke is great but not the be all end all that doesn’t make me biased. It’s called discerning. My favorite nephew goes to Duke. I have no student there or Michigan and no student of mine has applied to either. I have no mean boss from duke or was I ever jilted by a women from either. I’m open to debate but you’ve gotten a bit too personal and would suggest you move on. I will. My thoughts are generic. There are terms of service here and this has lasted one post too long.
I think this is a UM grad posing as a Duke grad to make Duke look bad, the rants, grammatical and spelling mistakes, not understanding the arguments, changing the discussion…the post you sight, ny comments, is is, patents misplaced loyalty, Berkley
@Humblest If you have read this whole discussion, and your name is not ironic, you have probably realized you don’t belong at either Duke or Michigan. Enjoy your years at Georgia Tech!
I love how people are posting rankings for undergraduate business programs to claim that Michigan is better. Duke doesn’t have an undergraduate business school.
Also, anyone who thinks that the difference in the quality of students at Princeton and Duke is greater than the difference between Duke and Michigan is misinformed. The numbers don’t lie.
Can’t wait for @Alexandre to come up with some inane excuse about how Michigan students don’t care about standardized test scores. Give it a rest. No one takes an exam (specially one as consequential as the SAT) with the intention of performing poorly.
@theloniusmonk Do you have any evidence to back up the claim that students at Pratt were rejected from schools like Michigan? Are you even vaguely familiar with the quality of Pratt’s student body?
^ 78% of students admitted to Duke and Michigan choose Duke. Michigan also loses to Brown, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Penn, Yale, Princeton, Vanderbilt, Chicago, Cornell, WUSTL, Berkeley, Northwestern, USC, Hopkins, CMU, Georgetown, and Notre Dame. It ties with UCLA and UNC.
I’m ok with school pride but let’s not pretend like Michigan is Yale. It’s a moderately selective state school in the midwest that has some great graduate/professional programs and is very respectable at the undergraduate level. Let’s not get carried away here.