Yale vs Stanford

prezbucky
Sat, 23 Apr 2016 22:56:46 +0000

Are there undergraduate rankings, or are we relying on the USNews grad school rankings?

Stanford has the upper hand in most grad programs (one notable exception being Law), but for undergrad I’m not sure there’s a reliable metric. Yale seems to emphasize humanities and social sciences more than STEM. The same cannot be said for Stanford.

(if we were looking for academic fit for a STEM major, Stanford has the distinct edge. But I’m not going to rely on grad school rankings to compare them in humanities and social sciences. I’d rather compare class size, prof interaction, and academic support – kind of how we look at LACs. Maybe also consider internship and research availability, as applicable by major.)