<p>Hi, I saw your thread, "Is Michigan weak anyway?"</p>
<p>You indicated bio and physics majors as #12</p>
<p>are there any difference of quality between science classes in CoE and LSA?</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>Actually, the Biology rankings were updated this year and Michigan dropped to #15. </p>
<p>I am not sure what you mean when you say quality of classes though? Engineering is very different from traditional science classes, so it is hard to compare them. I would say there are some similarities. Intro classes tend to be large and impersonal (although professors care and will make the time to meet with students in their office hours) and there tends to be a good deal of competition (like most major research programs, intro classes. Fortunately, it is not the unhealthy, cutthroat-type competition, but it is still pretty tough nevertheless.</p>
<p>But when it comes to quality, it doesn't matter because Michigan is strong accross the board. The weakest Science at Michigan is Chemistry, which is ranked #16 in the country and is actually better known for undergraduate instruction (Chem professors win teaching awards) than for graduate research. Most Michigan sicence departments are ranked among the top 10, including all the Engineering disciplines (Aerospace, Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, Industrial, Materials, Mechanical, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering and Nuclear), Geology and Mathematics. As I mentioned above, Chemistry is known for having an undergraduate focus at Michigan, as is Physics, so those two departments have excellent quality classes too.</p>