<p>What is the difference between a princeton degree verses a degree at another college</p>
<p>First of all, it’s “versus.” Sorry, I’m a grammar freak. Also, I’d like to protect the Latin language, if possible :)</p>
<h1>1: The name. If you go into any job interview with a P-ton diploma under your belt, you’ve got a significant leg up, so to speak.</h1>
<h1>2: The faculty. The quality/renown of the professors is generally much higher than at State Us. Many of them are Nobel Laureates, and virtually all of them would be published, recognized members of academia. In short, you might be analyzing a fascinating article on the father-son relationship in Antigone, only to realize that your professor wrote the article.</h1>
<h1>3: The peers. Everyone around you will be smarter and more driven, on average, than at a lower tier university. This leads to many positive consequences. You will undoubtedly push yourself more to keep up with the curve set by an intensely intellectual crowd. You will enjoy the company of people who get excited by certain academic topics that others may not…etc.</h1>
<p>Need I go on?</p>
<p>wow. I think hookem168 is missing something important:</p>
<p>The classes at Princeton at very, very rigorous, more so than many other colleges. You learn more because its harder here and to get the degree you have to work harder and know more. </p>
<p>I say this as a physics major though, and I don’t know how far this extends - however, I did hear of someone at Kentucky State University who is a Junior (physics major), but I am doing the same math as he is as a freshman.</p>
<p>^ That’s synonymous with the combination of #2 and #3 to me…smart people get together and form smart, rigorous classes, lol</p>
<p>but what makes a pton degree stand out from degrees from the other top schs? like harvard? stanford?</p>
<p>I never went to those schools, so I cannot directly compare. However, one thing that I can more than guarantee is that the physcis and math here are equally or more rigorous than theirs, simply by the hiugh level here and what I hear from friends.</p>
<p>You have the chance to attend the best Reunions of any school in the country.</p>
<p>Since B.A.s are becoming increasingly useless (apparently), you would have the sort of prestige unique to Princeton.</p>
<p>To an extent, I’m sure what hookem said is true.</p>
<p>But it’s also what you do with that degree that gets you places. I know plenty of Ivy grads with nothing but an Ivy debt because they didn’t take the initiative to put into use their degree.</p>