Re: Generally quite true, but let me add one or two qualifications.
yew Send a noteboard - 30/11/2009 02:53:48 AM
Well, Harvard and Yale and the like are still at the top, and likely always will be. That said, I attend a public university, and at the time of my admission it was ranked 25th in the world. Pretty good. (I say "at the time of my admission" because there's been a scandal within the last year that has likely damaged the reputation considerably. But it doesn't really have anything to do with the quality of the teaching.) That said, it is definitely at the high end of the tuition range for a public university. The exact numbers vary from college to college, but it costs more than that $8,000 you supplied. Still less than $20,000 though.
Well, I did say 'usually', expecting there to be a number of outliers. That's the problem with generalizations. Generally speaking, of course...
UofI is even more expensive than Berkeley (#3 on the rankings you supplied, and also outside the range I gave). Schoolwise, anyway. The cost of living more than makes up the difference, though.
$50,000 is an utterly ridiculous number, restricted to a small, small handful of private Ivy League institutions. It's definitely not necessary to shell out a quarter million dollars just to get a uni education at a prestigious school. Depending on your interpretation of prestige, of course. No one beats Harvard for name recognition. But there are many excellent schools outside the Ivy League.
Absolutely. Name recognition is really what it comes down to. It's probably more important for most people that they went to a university than to any one in particular. Employers tend to think so as well. (Speaking, of course, for the sorts of jobs most working to middle class people are likely to have.)
/survey: moving across the ocean & international borders. 12 easy questions. (...yes, am joking.)
- 28/11/2009 04:27:21 AM
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Answers, of a kind.
- 28/11/2009 12:48:34 PM
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- 28/11/2009 05:48:04 PM
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- 30/11/2009 02:12:08 AM
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Generally quite true, but let me add one or two qualifications.
- 30/11/2009 02:21:33 AM
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Here's that ranking, if you're curious.
- 30/11/2009 02:27:37 AM
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Re: Generally quite true, but let me add one or two qualifications.
- 30/11/2009 02:53:48 AM
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