<p>Hi, I just simply wanted to narrow down my college choices and thus am asking which programs Yale is strong/weak at.</p>
<p>I've always thought that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton had weak engineering programs and were generally weak in the science fields. Is this just a myth?</p>
<p>How about economics?</p>
<p>Sorry I just posted my field of interest. You can basically post any of knowledge you have about the strengths and weaknesses of Yale in any way, not limited to its programs and courses.</p>
<p>PS: This post might be spammed thruout some of the CC boards. I apologise in beforehand for making such mess :D</p>
<p>princeton has a very strong engineering program, unlike harvard and yale, princeton's engineering program ranks in the top 10.</p>
<p>princeton is known for sciences and is very strong in all science fields. since princeton is mainly an undergraduate school, undergrads have many opportunities to do research. princeton is known for physics and its molbio and chemistry are among the hardest classes. princeton has one of the strongest science programs in the country, and many debate between MIT and princeton for science.</p>
<p>princeton is also very strong in economics, which is one of the most popular majors at princeton. im pretty sure its economics department is stronger than that of harvard/yale and its faculty is much more distinguished</p>
<p>Physics at Princeton is pretty much on par with Physics at the tech schools which is saying something- and it is definitely much better than Physics at Yale</p>
<p>MIT, Stanford, Princeton. Elite and superior in nearly all fields. i'm starting to like this school :P</p>
<p>I was wondering few months ago about how this guy was 'torned apart between engineering at Princeton or physics at MIT'. MIT seemed like an unquestionable answer.</p>
<p>ya princeton is known for being the most well-rounded + undergraduate focus ivy. princeton excels in every field and u cant go wrong by going to princeton. =P but its science and math fields are what stand out.</p>
<p>Actually, I think its humanities and social science departments trump science and engineering, but they're (nearly) universally top-notch departments. And it depends on what you're looking for too, in terms of fields of engineering and applied v. theoretical math, etc.</p>
<p>I've received replies that Harvard tends to be weak in engineering where everything is applied but strong in more theoratical science (i.e. pure mathematics). (weak here is relative to top notch like MIT)
and Princeton is strong in both aspects :D</p>
<p>indeed, alumother, despite the fact that u.s. news publishes undergraduate engineering rankings. byerly prefers not to post these, because they place princeton 11th or 12th and harvard 29th. the man does this board a great service with his statistics, but i find this particular use a bit disingenuous.</p>
<p>byerly's presentation of the data appears to favor harvard only because of harvard's precedence (because of the alphabet) in instances of ties, as in the fields of mathematics and physics. adding their rankings in the six fields, and using undergraduate rather than undergraduate engineering (why not?), princeton actually edges harvard 48-58 (lower is obviously better). of course, i'll be the first to acknowledge the triviality of this demonstration. i think harvard probably IS a bit better than princeton in the life sciences, both are outstanding in the physical sciences, and princeton is better, although not at the level of MIT/berkeley/stanford, in engineering. as byerly has previously explained, and will no doubt do again, harvard's undergraduate engineering has a different philosophy than its peer programs.</p>