What makes Vandy so great

the_o_dad
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:28:42 +0000

Every rankings uses different criteria to rank the schools. What all the top schools (including Vanderbilt) have are great resources, great faculty and a very high achieving student body (some would say over achievers). Regarding the school of engineering, with the exception of MIT and Cal Tech the other top 20 schools are similarly ranked (if memory serves me right, Harvard’s school of engineering is even lower in USNWR). Most of the top 20 are not “technical schools” but I would put both their resources and student body up against any higher ranked engineering program. Any school regardless of what it is ranked is what you make of it. What makes Vanderbilt (and other schools) so great is the amount of opportunities you will have and the reasources you will have available to take advantage of the opportunities.