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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Dartmouth, Rice, Tufts, and WashU all fall in the same camp. You can maybe add Yale and Brown. [b]Possibly CalTech, though that's a very unique school.[/b]

They are all research universities that grant PhDs, but with [b]a strong focus on undergrad education[/b]. And most of them have the resources to be very good in most fields and support serious research.

They are different than a Williams or Swarthmore, which do not grant PhDs. There's more going on at an R1 university than a SLAC, even small ones like Dartmouth or Rice. But there's not a lot of them.  [/quote]

I went to grad school at Caltech and I wouldn’t say the focus is on the education of undergrads (who are outnumbered by grad students) … I would instead say that the barrier for undergrads to get involved in graduate-level research is extremely low because they are all so qualified, so there are a lot of undergrads working in the graduate labs.

I’ve heard that Dartmouth, Tufts, Rice all have great combos of R1 research and a focus on undergrad teaching. I think they have different social vibes tho, and  obviously different locations too, so worth visiting to see what your student prefers.[/quote]

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