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Why the bad rep?
Kairubin:
All about supply and demand. For all you eco students out there.
If people don't want to go into a course the course get dropped or the ENTER has to get lowered to attract more students. Less students means less funding. Less funding means less resources. Less resources means less teaching staff wanting to teach there. Less teaching staff means the course looks unattractive. Unattractive courses don't look good to students. Students not taking up courses = Lower ENTER requirement. All a vicious cycle really in my personal opinion.
But at the end of the day they are still a tertiary institution. They may not be a par of the sandstone unis or part of the group of eight but they are still providing an education to those that choose to go there. And as long as people are being educated that's always a positive because they're getting skills to use.
It's a 'crap uni' because people who think they're all high and mighty attending more 'prestigious' unis like to rip on it for being a new player. Like anything in time who knows what could happen.
Greggler:
lol at person who said they are shit due to exmaination techniques etc.
Some of the best uni's in US eg. MIT and Caltech have open book/take home exams lol
humph:
--- Quote from: AppleXY on November 03, 2009, 07:01:11 pm ---Why does Harvard ALWAYS get all the glory? I mean for specific faculties (such as Mathematics and Business) it's far from being #1 (MIT and UPenn Wharton School of Business) is.
<3 Wharton. (NYU Stern is effin mad tooooo) :D
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What sense are we talking about "best"? For graduate studies, for example, the best in the US for mathematics is Chicago, then Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, if memory serves. If you go by research though (output of publications + citations, weighted accordingly) then I have no idea, though I think Harvard is near the top (they have a great algebra department). If you go by undergraduate, then I have no idea either, but it's pretty irrelevant in any case (undergrad maths is pretty meaningless in that it's the graduate stuff that's important).
I'm guessing it's similar in business as well, it depends on what way you rank universities.
Eriny:
I think in the US there is kind of more diversity of 'good' unis in that there are many good places you can go in certain faculties, which may not be the best for other faculties. For instance, NYU is supposed to be better than Harvard for certain Humanities programmes. Regardless though, a degree from Harvard is pretty prestigious and most people/businesses in the world would recognise that, and sometimes you do need to cater your qualifications to what people think about them, rather than what they are.
jay1993:
--- Quote from: AppleXY on November 03, 2009, 07:01:11 pm ---Why does Harvard ALWAYS get all the glory? I mean for specific faculties (such as Mathematics and Business) it's far from being #1 (MIT and UPenn Wharton School of Business) is.
<3 Wharton. (NYU Stern is effin mad tooooo) :D
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Harvard on ur resume looks better though. No matter what part of the world you are in.
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