Reply to Harvard or Columbia - Where would you go?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Harvard or Columbia - Where would you go?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to Columbia,  then to Oxford for graduate work, and taught undergraduates at Oxford. While both are great universities, Columbia provided in my experience a better education with its combined structure and options for study.

Notwithstanding Oxford's vaunted tutorial method, Columbia invested more resources into providing for the education of its undergraduates, with about 80% of all classes being small classes of 22 students maximum across the faculties for undergraduates, and with the outstanding core courses.

I can't comment about Harvard, but it is not possible to duplicate the core course requirements which the entire freshman and sophomore classes take at Columbia.  There is something unique and bonding about the entire entering freshman class taking the same required courses in small sections with a teacher who knows each student individually, and then promoting dialogue amongst the students over shared texts and issues, dissected and analyzed.  One comes out of this training with the confidence that any book or article can be shredded to pieces and then re-assembled. This experience lasts a lifetime; the training remains useful in many ways in later life.[/quote]

That core is what mine loved about Columbia.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics