<p>Thanks for your advice regarding checking out online. I am slowly getting a feel of it, although I know once I get there things will be quite different. It’s great to see such a low crime rate there.</p>
<p>A different methodology in the rankings system shouldn’t produce as drastic changes as that. I’d also like to add that in the website where they were ranked 30, NUS’s website was found under the “Sponsored Ads” heading in the side.</p>
<p>While I can see that you are correct regarding the human tendency, I haven’t really seen that to be true in my immediate environment. People downplay the unknown to go somewhere close. Actually, NUS’s encashes just that point. NUS’s brochure’s heading is, “A global university at your doorstep”. Their USP is their location. I’m pretty sure there aren’t too many Americans or Europeans filling up their university, and they know that too. So, they divert all their resources to get the students who will go there: fellow Asians.</p>
<p>I still fail to see what NUS has that MSU doesn’t, besides the center-of-attention location. NUS cannot hold a candle to MSU’s research funding. Also, it is really hard to argue which school has better professors. MSU has 1200 acres of land to NUS’s 350. Other than funding on advertisements, I fail to see where NUS is outplaying MSU. Perhaps the general quality of students due to a more selective admissions committee at NUS? Well maybe, but one can’t really surround one’s self with all the 10,000 students, only at most about 20-30. Surely one can find 20-30 brilliant students at MSU too, and just surround one’s self with them. Likewise, surely one can find 20-30 party-oriented kids at NUS too.</p>