Which school is better overall: Purdue or Indiana?

[Anonymous]

If you are out of state for Indiana and Massachusetts, the analogy here aptly answers part of your question. Going to IU for engineering instead of to Purdue is like going to Harvard for engineering instead of to MIT. It’s as dumb a decision as that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are out of state for Indiana and Massachusetts, the analogy here aptly answers part of your question. Going to IU for engineering instead of to Purdue is like going to Harvard for engineering instead of to MIT. It’s as dumb a decision as that.

Exactly!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are out of state for Indiana and Massachusetts, the analogy here aptly answers part of your question. Going to IU for engineering instead of to Purdue is like going to Harvard for engineering instead of to MIT. It’s as dumb a decision as that.

Exactly!

So guys... don't you think this is an absurd oversimplification? Like Harvard Engineering is complete garbage or something...

My sister has an engineering PhD from MIT, and one year she got to work with a prof at Harvard and get into a lab there for this project... she was over the moon and her colleagues were like, wow congrats on the opportunity! Like, MIT engineers do not look down on Harvard engineers or the programs there. At all. So maybe neither should you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are out of state for Indiana and Massachusetts, the analogy here aptly answers part of your question. Going to IU for engineering instead of to Purdue is like going to Harvard for engineering instead of to MIT. It’s as dumb a decision as that.

Exactly!

So guys... don't you think this is an absurd oversimplification? Like Harvard Engineering is complete garbage or something...

My sister has an engineering PhD from MIT, and one year she got to work with a prof at Harvard and get into a lab there for this project... she was over the moon and her colleagues were like, wow congrats on the opportunity! Like, MIT engineers do not look down on Harvard engineers or the programs there. At all. So maybe neither should you?

I promise you, people think it's weird to go to Harvard for engineering.

[Anonymous]

Purdue is better for engineering, pharmacy, computer science, nursing, veterinary medicine, chemistry, physics, statistics, and speech-language pathology.

Indiana is better for business, economics, biology, math, psychology/sociology, the humanities, political science, public affairs, music, education, and library science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Purdue is better for engineering, pharmacy, computer science, nursing, veterinary medicine, chemistry, physics, statistics, and speech-language pathology.

Indiana is better for business, economics, biology, math, psychology/sociology, the humanities, political science, public affairs, music, education, and library science.

Don't forget ag @ Purdue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Purdue is better for engineering, pharmacy, computer science, nursing, veterinary medicine, chemistry, physics, statistics, and speech-language pathology.

Indiana is better for business, economics, biology, math, psychology/sociology, the humanities, political science, public affairs, music, education, and library science.

Don't forget ag @ Purdue.

Yep. And journalism is very strong too at Indiana.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are out of state for Indiana and Massachusetts, the analogy here aptly answers part of your question. Going to IU for engineering instead of to Purdue is like going to Harvard for engineering instead of to MIT. It’s as dumb a decision as that.

Exactly!

So guys... don't you think this is an absurd oversimplification? Like Harvard Engineering is complete garbage or something...

My sister has an engineering PhD from MIT, and one year she got to work with a prof at Harvard and get into a lab there for this project... she was over the moon and her colleagues were like, wow congrats on the opportunity! Like, MIT engineers do not look down on Harvard engineers or the programs there. At all. So maybe neither should you?

I promise you, people think it's weird to go to Harvard for engineering.

Let's definitely trust "people" over MIT engineers on where it's "weird"' to go for engineering.

[Anonymous]

IU also has a great media school, which has benefited from the support of Mark Cuban (a business school alum).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Purdue. More recognized name due to super strong STEM.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:IU- the flagship is always the way to go

Purdue is also a flagship. Are you really suggesting IU is the way to go in Indiana for STEM? (Since you said ALWAYS) LOL.

Purdue is the land grant, which is different than a flagship. In VA, VT is the land grant, UVA is the flagship.

[Anonymous]

For a kid who's truly undecided, I would go with Indiana, which is strong in a broader range of subjects.

Indiana also has the better campus/setting by a significant margin.

[Anonymous]

The back and forths in this post is pretty much how I spend my family reunion with the Indiana side of the family - Boilermakers v Hoosiers.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are out of state for Indiana and Massachusetts, the analogy here aptly answers part of your question. Going to IU for engineering instead of to Purdue is like going to Harvard for engineering instead of to MIT. It’s as dumb a decision as that.

Exactly!

So guys... don't you think this is an absurd oversimplification? Like Harvard Engineering is complete garbage or something...

My sister has an engineering PhD from MIT, and one year she got to work with a prof at Harvard and get into a lab there for this project... she was over the moon and her colleagues were like, wow congrats on the opportunity! Like, MIT engineers do not look down on Harvard engineers or the programs there. At all. So maybe neither should you?

I promise you, people think it's weird to go to Harvard for engineering.

Let's definitely trust "people" over MIT engineers on where it's "weird"' to go for engineering.

Undergrad at Purdue, grad school at MIT. My opinion counts for a lot. And yes, it's weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are out of state for Indiana and Massachusetts, the analogy here aptly answers part of your question. Going to IU for engineering instead of to Purdue is like going to Harvard for engineering instead of to MIT. It’s as dumb a decision as that.

IU doesn't even offer engineering. So moot point.