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If you look at student surveys and responses in places like Princeton Review and Niche, research-intensive universities generally get much lower satisfaction scores for teaching and student-teacher interactions.  Research universities also use adjuncts and lecturers in addition to TAs, so not sure what your point is there.  The University of California system did a time study on how professors spend their time and it came down to about 1/3 research, 1/3 graduate education, and 1/3 undergraduate education.  So even though undergraduates have reduced in-state tuition there, the conclusion was they still subsidize research and graduate study with their tuition based on the attention they get (or don't get to put it another way).  [/quote]

It's true that research professors will not spend as much time with undergrads as in undergrad-focused universities. But ask yourself again: why do students clamor to get into Harvard, but don't care as much about Williams?

Fact of the matter is, research universities will have more academically accomplished professors. This can be very good for high-achieving students because they can leverage these opportunities by doing research for professors and get recommendation letters from renowned professors in the field that they want to go to grad school for. This is especially true in the sciences where large lecture halls don't matter as much (not much in-class discussion going on)

For middle-of-the-road students, indeed they can get easily lost in research universities. Those students probably have a better time with smaller classes.[/quote]

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