And there is also a reason why 3,000+ employers have attended Stevens’ career fairs and the graduates as pointed put earlier are the tenth highest paid college graduates in America. Money spent per student is a misleading statistic. It is the ratio of the school’s total annual expenditures to the number of students. Not all of a school’s annual budget goes towards providing education. Larger schools will likely have more non-academic overhead than smaller ones you know, so the “money spent per student” likely is not spent on the student in toto. I know many folks who attended MIT, UCB, and other world class institutions for their graduate work after they graduated from Stevens. All of them said that their preparation at Stevens allowed them to succeed at those institutions. Like I said, my former employer, the world leader in the communications and electronics industry heavily recruited from Stevens as well as MIT. I know of at least a half dozen MIT (and a couple of UCB) professors who are or were graduates of Stevens for example. I don’t think you can discount that either. If you really believe MIT is the be all and end all of everything (did you go there?) you are very shortsighted, honestly. Most of the engineers in the world did not attend MIT - and yet - wonder of wonders and miracle of miracles, technological progress still moves on.