What are the “top 10” schools?

[Anonymous]

For what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale has a reputation of being the school "where science majors go to die."

As a general matter, good luck getting any real professors teaching your DCs at the top schools. Maybe they see one in their final year before graduating. The rest are grad students and adjuncts. Those profs that do teach can't wait to get the hell out of the classroom..

Nonsense. 92% of instructors at Yale have a PhD or other terminal degree, according to the Common Data Set. Stop making stuff up that you think sounds right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale has a reputation of being the school "where science majors go to die."

As a general matter, good luck getting any real professors teaching your DCs at the top schools. Maybe they see one in their final year before graduating. The rest are grad students and adjuncts. Those profs that do teach can't wait to get the hell out of the classroom..

Nonsense. 92% of instructors at Yale have a PhD or other terminal degree, according to the Common Data Set. Stop making stuff up that you think sounds right.

+1 I have heard the bit about grad students teaching undergrads is true for Harvard but have no direct experience. My kid junior at Yale and aside from an ( amazing) adjunct teaching foreign language class her professors have all been professors.

[Anonymous]

Top 10 would be HPSM, Caltech, Duke, U of Penn, Yale, Columbia, and then perhaps 5 schools could be argued for the final spot (one of Northwestern, Brown, Johns Hopkins, UChicago, or Dartmouth)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale has a reputation of being the school "where science majors go to die."

As a general matter, good luck getting any real professors teaching your DCs at the top schools. Maybe they see one in their final year before graduating. The rest are grad students and adjuncts. Those profs that do teach can't wait to get the hell out of the classroom..

Nonsense. 92% of instructors at Yale have a PhD or other terminal degree, according to the Common Data Set. Stop making stuff up that you think sounds right.

"Instructors" includes adjuncts. To understand whether the primary instructor is tenured, tenure-track, adjuncts, Graduate TAs, etc., the courses typically need to be analyzed. USNWR published a list a few years ago of universities where Graduate TAs teach the most classes. They were relying on data provided by the institutions, though. I've also attached an article where a group of graduate students analyzed Yale itself and determined undergraduates were more 2X more likely to be taught by an adjunct or TA compared to a tenured professor.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/2017-02-21/10-universities-where-tas-teach-the-most-classes

https://www.chronicle.com/article/yale-relies-on-tas-and-adjuncts-for-teaching-report-says/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale has a reputation of being the school "where science majors go to die."

As a general matter, good luck getting any real professors teaching your DCs at the top schools. Maybe they see one in their final year before graduating. The rest are grad students and adjuncts. Those profs that do teach can't wait to get the hell out of the classroom..

Nonsense. 92% of instructors at Yale have a PhD or other terminal degree, according to the Common Data Set. Stop making stuff up that you think sounds right.

"Instructors" includes adjuncts. To understand whether the primary instructor is tenured, tenure-track, adjuncts, Graduate TAs, etc., the courses typically need to be analyzed. USNWR published a list a few years ago of universities where Graduate TAs teach the most classes. They were relying on data provided by the institutions, though. I've also attached an article where a group of graduate students analyzed Yale itself and determined undergraduates were more 2X more likely to be taught by an adjunct or TA compared to a tenured professor.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/2017-02-21/10-universities-where-tas-teach-the-most-classes

https://www.chronicle.com/article/yale-relies-on-tas-and-adjuncts-for-teaching-report-says/

Did you happen to notice the article about Yale is 25 years old?

[Anonymous]

OP, do we have to do this each week?

Really?

[Anonymous]

From another thread:

Best Colleges for Future Leaders (adjusted for enrollment):

1) Harvard--100 score

2) Stanford--90

3) U Penn--89

4) Columbia--87
5) MIT--87

6) Yale--86
7) Princeton--86

8) Northwestern--85
9) U Michigan--85

10) U Chicago--84
11) UC-Berkeley--84
12) Georgetown--84

13) through 19) all scored 83: NYU, Texas-Austin, Cornell, Dartmouth, U Virginia, Duke, & Brown

The highest ranked LAC was USMA at West Point, Middlebury, USNA at Annapolis, Claremont McKenna, Amherst, Davidson, Mount Holyoke, Smith, & Colgate = all received a score of 81.

NOT making the Top 100 schools: Williams, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Carleton, W&L, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Princeton
MIT
UChicago
Columbia
Penn
Northwestern
Duke

Replace UChicago with Caltech and this is reasonable

Replace Duke. Chicago stays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 would be HPSM, Caltech, Duke, U of Penn, Yale, Columbia, and then perhaps 5 schools could be argued for the final spot (one of Northwestern, Brown, Johns Hopkins, UChicago, or Dartmouth)

You again?