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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are talking oos tuition. This is not graduate school and your point of comparison is way off. Go down several notches.

For example, would take USC over Berkeley in a heartbeat. Georgetown, BC, WashU, and on and on…[/quote]

I'm a professor who has taught at several of these schools, but don't know about the undergrad experience.

Berkeley is elite in STEM with professors like me working closely with Ph.D. students.  At most state schools, undergrads take large sections taught by graduate students and lecturers, unless they find small honors programs or until they get to to specialized upper-level electives.

There is a lots of research money for STEM, but this requires occupies senior professors writing grant proposals to fund laboratories staffed with armies of post-docs and Ph.D. students.  Berkeley and Maryland have this.  USC and Washington University in St. Louis have some.  Georgetown, University of Virginia, and William and Mary not so much.

But I think you are pointing out that good private schools like USC will have mostly professors in the classroom, broad class availability, good advising, and better service overall.  Charles Fefferman got his Princeton math Ph.D. at age 20, Terrence Tao at age 21 and Edward Frenkel finished at Harvard at age 22 or 23.  Good graduate students like them need the very best faculty to access frontier knowledge and networks for professor jobs.  Most students will not exhaust the intellectual STEM resources of a solid school like USC or WashU, and would be better off there than at Berkeley.  Is this what you mean?[/quote]

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