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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure. Most are at schools already highly ranked but I’m thinking of schools where the engineering specific ranking is much higher.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Perdue, UW, VT, Texas A&M, Ohio State, UMCP, Penn State, UCSD. [/quote]

Are you asking why land grant universities that were founded 150+ years ago to teach engineering by charter have well regarded engineering programs? Cause there seems to be an obvious answer to that.[/quote]

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Who cares why they were founded but why not have a discussion on whether one or more has become simply a well endowed engineering factory with large classes taught by graduate TAs with inconsistent quality from year to year, possibility limited individualized attention from tenured faculty until junior/year year all while dealing with 
hunger games type scheduling for access to superior labs…or perhaps the employment outcomes and quality of the students who graduate from these “non-elite” but well regarded land grant schools truly are a cut above…having two lists makes it difficult to know. 
Weird [/quote]

There you are!  The bizarre poster with an axe to grind against large state schools.  You repeat the same song and dance on many threads, expecting people to believe that TAs actually teach the classes and that the classes are enormous and difficult to register for.  The gross generalizations are actually amusing at this point, because it's clear you have no idea what you're talking about.

My kids have attended several state universities between them and none of what you constantly bray about has been the case at ALL at any of these schools.  They've had no issues registering for classes, their advisors have been helpful and consistent, none have ever had a TA teach any class, and professors are accessible and responsive.

But do go back to boosting your favored tiny, limited schools and insisting that they're somehow offering a better education.  [/quote]

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