Worth going to MIT, Stanford or Harvard for undergrad?

datalook
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:09:07 +0000

If so, that makes Harvard’s accomplishments in the sciences all the more impressive – such as it producing more NSF Graduate Research Fellowship winners than MIT, considerably more than Stanford, and nearly twice as many as Princeton.



I’m not sure if you are stating a reality here. Any links?

Here is a link I found: [Pax Bellona: 2009 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Results](http://paxbellona.blogspot.com/2009/04/nsf-graduate-research-fellowship.html).
Based on 2009 data, MIT and Berkeley college graduates won most NSF graduate Research Fellowships, followed by Harvard and Stanford. In 2009, 44 Berkeley undergraduates won NSF fellowships. When looking at Berkeley’s sheer number of winners, I feel that the quality of Berkeley’s undergraduates is probably well under-estimated by lots of people here, at least in science and engineering. In addition, the graduate schools that attracted most NSF graduate research fellowship winners in 2009 were Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, and Harvard. And in that order.