Reply to US News 2020 rankings

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "US News 2020 rankings"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What jobs are these tiers being used to hire in?

It's laughable to me that anyone would hire a Washington University over Berkeley in any [b]engineering or math/science field. Berkeley's humanities and liberal arts are very rigorous as well and has a reputation of grade-deflation.[/b]

For an ambiguous job, beyond the high Ivies, Stanford/MIT/Caltech and potentially Duke, the private universities that have been listed (Rice, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Brown) aren't considered any more rigorous than Berkeley. 
In sciences/engineering its unclear to me if even Harvard/Yale/Princeton are considered more rigorous than Berkeley - they have a reputation of grade inflation.

Other than Berkeley, the publics are mixed. UVA has historical prestige but the school itself is not considered very difficult. Same for Michigan for liberal arts.

Now if you are a student choosing colleges, Dartmouth will provide far more resources and a much less stressful environment to you than Berkeley, while also having social prestige.
[/quote]

Have you actually hired engineering grads?  In my experience, individual qualities (experience, personality, grades, critical thinking skills) make more difference in hiring than a perceived difference between WUSTL and Berkeley.  Berkeley is obviously the better school.  BUT not every student at Berkeley is a better candidate than every student at WUSTL. [/quote]
I definitely agree, but I am not the one ranking tiers here. There was someone ranking tiers where supposedly they would always hire someone from Tier 2 over Tier 3, etc.

Also rigor of courses and cutthroat environment do matter in engineering. [/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