Anonymous
05/03/2025 13:06
Subject: Mid-size privates with only professors teaching
Anonymous wrote:Tufts
Really? Good to know.
Anonymous
05/03/2025 12:51
Subject: Mid-size privates with only professors teaching
Anonymous wrote:Not exactly what you were asking, but perhaps a good list to start from. These are the top 30 mid-size schools (up to 9,000 undergrads) from the USNews list of best undergraduate teaching.
Elon University
Princeton University
Brown University
Dartmouth College
Carnegie Mellon University
Rice University
Duke University
University of Notre Dame
Vanderbilt University
Yale University
Marquette University
Santa Clara University
Stanford University
William & Mary
Belmont University
Georgetown University
Northwestern University
Lehigh University
American University
California Institute of Technology
Creighton University
Biola University
Colorado School of Mines
Harvard University
Loyola Marymount University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Chicago
Wake Forest University
Gallaudet University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Are you clueless as to how academia works? Most on this list have grad students that teach undergrads.
OP, the answer is, top SLACS like Amherst, Wesleyan, Williams, Haverford, etc. I went to Wesleyan and all of my classes except for one were taught by PHDs. Only two adjuncts and they were PHDs. Everyone else tenured or tenure track with PhDs. The only prof I had who who was not a PhD had an MFA and taught writing. Zero grad students teaching.
Basically, you need to go somewhere that does not have graduate schools. Wesleyan technically has a couple grad programs, but not enough to make a difference.
Anonymous
05/03/2025 12:50
Subject: Mid-size privates with only professors teaching
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Meh, I taught classes as a TA, and I put a lot of effort into it -- undoubtedly more than some professors.
Agreed. Grad students arguably put way more effort into their teaching, because the stakes for them are higher: when they later apply for tenure-track jobs, they need to submit teaching evaluations.
Also, for all of those who only want professors teaching their kids…where do you think those professors get their training?
On someone else’s kids. I’d like mine to get the benefit of the finished product.
You think you need a "finished product" (whatever that is) for your kid's "Intro to Whatever" class? And you think that that "finished product" will teach well?
Anonymous
05/03/2025 12:48
Subject: Mid-size privates with only professors teaching
Anonymous wrote:Meh, I taught classes as a TA, and I put a lot of effort into it -- undoubtedly more than some professors.
Same.
Anonymous
05/03/2025 12:48
Subject: Mid-size privates with only professors teaching
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tulane
No. Tulane has a lot of TAs.
Not teaching class. Teaching recitation? Yes.
Yes, they do teach class. There are plenty of grad students who are the instructor of record for classes at Tulane.
Anonymous
05/03/2025 12:48
Subject: Mid-size privates with only professors teaching
Wesleyan in CT
Anonymous
05/03/2025 12:46
Subject: Mid-size privates with only professors teaching
Anonymous wrote:Oberlin is small also and prestige wise in decline.
Lol. Ok.
Anonymous
05/03/2025 10:39
Subject: Mid-size privates with only professors teaching
Anonymous wrote:I know WM and Wake tout this specifically...but other mid-size privates (Lehigh, Rice, Emory, etc., U Chicago) that have the majority or all classes taught by only professors?
If you would like to consider your question generally, in terms of "Best Classroom Experience," note that Emory appears in this Princeton Review survey-based site:
https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings/?rankings=best-classroom-experience
Anonymous
05/03/2025 10:09
Subject: Mid-size privates with only professors teaching
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Meh, I taught classes as a TA, and I put a lot of effort into it -- undoubtedly more than some professors.
Agreed. Grad students arguably put way more effort into their teaching, because the stakes for them are higher: when they later apply for tenure-track jobs, they need to submit teaching evaluations.
Also, for all of those who only want professors teaching their kids…where do you think those professors get their training?
Um, that was not my experience at HYP. The grad students were just as focused on their research as the professors, teaching just a box to check. Some were really, really bad at it.
Anonymous
05/03/2025 10:07
Subject: Mid-size privates with only professors teaching
Anonymous wrote:Duke Princeton Penn Brown WashU Chicago.
LOL, why do people keep posting schools for which this is demonstrably untrue?
Anonymous
05/03/2025 10:02
Subject: Mid-size privates with only professors teaching
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Meh, I taught classes as a TA, and I put a lot of effort into it -- undoubtedly more than some professors.
Agreed. Grad students arguably put way more effort into their teaching, because the stakes for them are higher: when they later apply for tenure-track jobs, they need to submit teaching evaluations.
Also, for all of those who only want professors teaching their kids…where do you think those professors get their training?
At colleges that use TAs, obviously. Then they go and teach at colleges that don't use TAs to teach.
Anonymous
05/03/2025 09:59
Subject: Mid-size privates with only professors teaching
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Meh, I taught classes as a TA, and I put a lot of effort into it -- undoubtedly more than some professors.
Agreed. Grad students arguably put way more effort into their teaching, because the stakes for them are higher: when they later apply for tenure-track jobs, they need to submit teaching evaluations.
Also, for all of those who only want professors teaching their kids…where do you think those professors get their training?
On someone else’s kids. I’d like mine to get the benefit of the finished product.