Teaching quality

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s teaching quality but I’m most interested in learning quality. Some public colleges insist that students seek out the resources needed. Classroom interaction is not as important when lectures are recorded while attendance at office hours and labs is critical for success.

So, paying $80k+ for office hours? Don't "tutors" cost a lot less than attending $80k+ school?

I think you are completely missing the point.

[Anonymous]

Niche has a best professors ranking: https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-college-professors/

"The 2025 Colleges with the Best Professors ranking is based on key statistics and student reviews using data from the U.S. Department of Education. Top-ranked colleges have diverse, accomplished, and well paid faculty members that are rated highly by students."

[Anonymous]

Carlton College is known for teachers who are consistently great! Same with Colorado College. They also seem like happy schools.

I expect most LACs have a stronger emphasis on teaching versus just research of typical T20s.

[Anonymous]

Brown is #3 on niche and us news rankings for teaching. No clue how other schools compare obviously. One dud so far, the rest really passionate and engaging. The dud was an intro class no one wants to teach apparently. I think open curriculum and having all kids that want to be in the class and even having the shopping period to trial classes really impacts the classroom nicely for teacher and student.

[Anonymous]

William & Mary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, of the three lists (Best Classroom Experience, Best Undergrad Teaching [R1], Best Undergrad Teaching [LAC]), these are the five schools that show up twice:

Grinnell
Reed
St. John's (MD)
St. Olaf
Wellesley

Why do I get the impression their idea of a great professor is a snarky little socialist with a man bun who thinks it’s cool to bash the US & drop a few F-bombs in class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, of the three lists (Best Classroom Experience, Best Undergrad Teaching [R1], Best Undergrad Teaching [LAC]), these are the five schools that show up twice:

Grinnell
Reed
St. John's (MD)
St. Olaf
Wellesley

Why do I get the impression their idea of a great professor is a snarky little socialist with a man bun who thinks it’s cool to bash the US & drop a few F-bombs in class?

Because you are clueless?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, of the three lists (Best Classroom Experience, Best Undergrad Teaching [R1], Best Undergrad Teaching [LAC]), these are the five schools that show up twice:

Grinnell
Reed
St. John's (MD)
St. Olaf
Wellesley

Why do I get the impression their idea of a great professor is a snarky little socialist with a man bun who thinks it’s cool to bash the US & drop a few F-bombs in class?

Because you are clueless?

No, that’s not it…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A list from a college counselor survey:

https://www.collegexpress.com/lists/list/the-experts-choice-the-best-undergraduate-education/658/

That looks like a pretty good list but question why Penn State would be singled out among large publics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, of the three lists (Best Classroom Experience, Best Undergrad Teaching [R1], Best Undergrad Teaching [LAC]), these are the five schools that show up twice:

Grinnell
Reed
St. John's (MD)
St. Olaf
Wellesley

For Princeton Review, the student survey lists are in the public section. Their actual ratings are a bit different, and use both surveys and additional info, but are in the passwd protected section. They also have written descriptions there for each school, similar to Fiske. The good news is the passwd section is free. We found it one of the most useful references.

They may well be the most useful reference, but the ordinal USNWR rating always gets the most attention.