Why choose a research university?

kwu
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:25:24 +0000

What are some schools besides LACs that offer good student-teacher ratios/average class sizes.





Caltech is one example.



Caltech is a good example of a top research university that also has great ratios. However, it’s professors’ quality and teaching ability are consistently called out to be abysmal by its own students. We can all dismiss the Princeton Review’s rankings as spurious and arbitrary, but not when a school like Caltech is called out several years in a row for having notorious bad professors.

Well, your example does refute the “gross generalization” you made.