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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would try to focus on the undergraduate engineering experience. Duke is a true research university while Brown has more of a pumped up liberal arts college atmosphere

My experience is that the latter environment is often better for undergraduates because they have top faculty teaching even lower level courses whereas the former will have grad students doing a lot of teaching. The upside of a research university for an engineering undergrad are the opportunities to conduct high level research, which liberal arts colleges can’t match

But Brown also has those opportunities. To me it’s kind of a best of both worlds. Ultimately she can’t go wrong, so once she makes her decision it will work out great [/quote]

Grad students don't teach at the highest elite level schools like Duke.[/quote]

This just isn’t true— my friends who went to Harvard had lots of classes taught by TAs.

I think the post you were responding was a good post (one of the only substantive sensible posts in the last few pages)[/quote]

That’s because schools like Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, etc. get the very best grad students.  Many of the elite undergraduate schools are loaded with graduate TAs. If Duke doesn’t have many TAs, I think it’s more of a reflection of the lack of quality in their graduate programs appeal. If I’m going to get a doctorate, wouldn’t I want to be able to teach students to help advance my career? Do you think the professors at Duke learned their craft by not teaching as grad students while they were getting their PhDs? [/quote]

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