<p>hmm. You act like people who prefer Research universities HATE LAC’s or something…<em>confused</em>
First of all, the list is best professors. Of course I would expect it to be populated with LAC’s because their teachers only have ONE major priority: teaching. If they can’t even get THAT part right, what’s the point of even existing as an LAC?</p>
<p>Second of all, LAC’s and research universities exist for DIFFERENT purposes. LAC’s exist to educate students. Research Universities exist to further knowledge through educating AND research.</p>
<p>Thus, if the Princeton Review ranked best FACULTY, there will, no-doubt, be some top research universities up there who have the nobel prize winners, etc.</p>
<p>It’s not saying one is superior to the other. If YOU (as you seem to be) are a student who only wants to learn and attain knowledge, then an LAC will sound great to you and maybe even an LAC-like Research University like Dartmouth or Brown (to a lesser degree).</p>
<p>If YOU want to receive an education AND be able to make your own discoveries/interact with the people who are making those discoveries, then…a research university like Harvard, Stanford, Hopkins, UChicago, etc would be your best option.</p>
<p>I don’t see why there is a constant need to prove one is better than the other. Unless you are talking about comparing Dartmouth, and, say, Amherst, it’s really like comparing eggs and oranges.</p>
<p>edit: Yes, research university professor probably can’t teach as well as LAC professors, but I’d also like to see LAC professors attempt some of the groundbreaking, history-making research that takes place regularly at the high-quality research universities and STILL teach (somehow) at the same time.</p>