<p>How do you guys like Rensselaer PI?</p>
<p>Regarding Vossron’s ranking:
Unlike say, med schools, there’s a huge difference in the career prospects of someone graduating from a top PhD program (where admission is highly competitive) versus someone from a second-tier PhD program, and someone from a mediocre PhD program (where admission is often relatively easy). It’s therefore hard to interpret PhD program matriculation rates as anything other than a weak gauge of the proportion of students interested in pursuing PhDs.</p>
<p>^ yes, it would also depend on the school in question. I’m sure students from Harvard, Princeton, Hopkins, and UChicago are sending PH.D’s off to podunk university…</p>
<p>I’m not sure how in six pages of discussion on top engineering schools, that the oldest engineering school in the country, RPI, wouldn’t be discussed. It’s certainly has stronger class profile, higher starting and mid-career avg salary, higher PhD production than many schools on this thread.</p>
<p>Considering that the percentages of the 27 schools are all about the same, think of it as a listing of top schools rather than a ranking. I think I’ll leave off the left numbers next time.</p>
<p>I don’t get to take credit for it; the IPEDS/NSF numbers are public data. CC’er interesteddad first posted this list.</p>
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I suggested RPI in post #53.</p>
<p>gellino, RPI is great for engineering. However, I’m sure a lot of people, myself included, weren’t too sure about the science factor, which is 1/2 of what this poster asked for.</p>
<p>hope2getrice: I was strongly considering RPI. I want to study neuroscience for undergrads and for grad and PhD study neurophysics. So should I not even consider RPI now? What schools are good other than MIT, HARVARD, AND HOPKINS? I just need some match and some safeties!!</p>
<p>If you look at PhD production results, RPI is strong in at least physics and chemistry in addition to engineering.</p>
<p>^But if RPI is primarily a tech school, those ratios are gonna be high if it doesn’t have a full spectrum of liberal arts and other majors to dilute the ratios.</p>