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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For grad school yes, but would not for undergrad.  Unless maybe you could pinpoint someone who does high quality research with undergrads in a small department at a slac.[/quote]

Regarding undergraduate education:

PhDs, even from mediocre universities, generally know way more than they need to in order to teach UNDERGRADUATE courses.

There is so much competition for tenure-track positions that people with doctorates from top universities often end up taking full-time positions at institutions far down in the US News rankings.

All of which just MIGHT start to point towards the unthinkable: of all the differences among undergraduate colleges (weather, size, sports, urban/rural/suburban etc.) could it be that the spectrum of faculty quality is one of the smaller? In other words, what if there is no tangible difference between the folks teaching undergrads at Old Dominion and those teaching undergrads at Colgate? If so, then this hair splitting over the difference in faculty quality between Michigan & UVa,  Williams & Middlebury, BC & BU might be really ridiculous. [/quote]

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