What's more important, individual program or overall reputation?

Oivoiv
Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:39:53 +0000

I say the overall reputation. As an undergrad, you’re only scratching the surface of your subjects, so it usually doesn’t matter if the person teaching you is a grad student or a Nobel Prize winner–he or she is going to know a lot more than you, and should know enough to teach the course. What you’re paying for is the college name. Grad school? That’s a whole 'nother story. Some of the best instructors I had were grad students.