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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very odd that some LAC supporters criticize Johns Hopkins University. JHU has, by far, the largest research & development (R&D) budget of any US school and probably of any school in the world. There is no LAC that is even close to JHU or to any Top 15 university excluding Dartmouth College & Brown University--an other of which are over-rated.

If LACs were ranked with National Universities, none--according to the Wall Street Journal & The Times Higher Education published rankings, would fall among the top 20 schools.[/quote]

I’m a graduate of both Swarthmore and of JHU (for grad school).  From my perspective, there’s no comparison:  everything about the educational experience at Swarthmore was superior.  [/quote]

Realize that you are comparing a grad school experience to an undergraduate school experience so I doubt that you can compare the two experiences on an equal basis.

Regardless, nobody is dissing Swarthmore College--its a demanding, small school. Would be a very different experience from attending a National University as an undergraduate student, although Swarthmore would share some similarities with U Chicago.

If you want to continue, then what did you major in at Swarthmore & what did you study in grad school at JHU.[/quote]

I would rather not give the specifics of my undergraduate major and graduate degree — but I doubled majored at Swarthmore in the humanities, and my MA from Hopkins was also a humanities degree.

I may have a little more insight into the undergrad experience at JHU due to the nature of my coursework — I took a few classes that were open to both undergrads and graduate students, and served as a TA in my department.  Actually, at 22, I taught the class to which I was assigned — everything from choosing the texts, assigning and gr [/quote]

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