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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Congrats to UMD -- they've done an excellent job improving that school over the last few years.

And of course I agree with Michigan being #1. It's an outstanding school. [/quote]

Michigan overall is much, much more focused on graduate students than undergraduates.  [/quote]

And you know this how? DH went there and had an excellent experience. He developed relationships with professors that he keeps up to this day (and he's 33 years old). He also worked there and so he saw it from the administration side.

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It has a heavy dependence on graduate teaching assistants.  In sciences and engineering, communication skills can be an issue.[/quote]

The University of Michigan puts more "Institutional" funds (not externally funded) into R&D spending than any other university in the U.S.  It is about $540M per year.  A significant percentage of that money is going to come from undergraduate tuition paid by the 30,000 undergraduates.  I don't think spending say $40K+ of your money to fund some professors research over 4 years is a very good deal.  https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=report&fice=2325&id=h2

You may say "perhaps that money comes from endowment", etc., but it would take every cent of Michigan's endowment to come up with that amount (and not fund athletics, law and medical professorships, etc.)  It is a rip off in plain sight if you do the math.
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Very astute of you. Thanks for doing the math! [/quote]

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