<p>Is there a real campus or is it more like NYU with classes scattered everywhere? What about campus safety as well? How is the quality of life/dorms/amenities?</p>
<p>yeah i saw that thanks ...lol</p>
<p>Well Morningside Heights is where all the undergraduate classes/life happens...</p>
<p>And if you want to see the rooms that undergraduates can live in for yourself, you can visit the Housing website...you can take virtual tours of the rooms there, singles, doubles, suites, etc.</p>
<p>It's really a good campus. I attended Columbia, Cornell and UC Berkeley. Columbia wins hands down,</p>
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<p>For what, if you don't mind me asking? I'm thinking of Cornell or Berk for grad school...</p>
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<p>There's at least a dozen threads about it. Do a search.</p>
<p>i find the search engine on CC not very effective.. they needa get on that</p>
<p>Operations Research (Applied Math). Generically speaking, what I found was that smaller (campus, class size, department size, etc.) is better. Class sizes were smaller at Columbia than either Cornell or Berkeley, and that made the experience all the better. The professors actually knew my name! I went to Cornell and Berkeley for their reputation alone, and that was a mistake.</p>
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<p>Then you're doing it wrong. I just typed "safety" and found 3 good threads in the first 2 pages (since people also talk about safety schools it comes up a lot). I put them in the helpful threads post so I don't have to tell people to search anymore. You're welcome.</p>
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Operations Research (Applied Math). Generically speaking, what I found was that smaller (campus, class size, department size, etc.) is better. Class sizes were smaller at Columbia than either Cornell or Berkeley, and that made the experience all the better. The professors actually knew my name! I went to Cornell and Berkeley for their reputation alone, and that was a mistake.
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<p>Interesting. I know both schools are a bit larger than Columbia but I would think that grad departments would be more like that anywhere you go but maybe not. Thanks.</p>
<p>I, at least, experienced "the profs. knew my name" type situation as an grad student at Cornell. Undergrad in engineering could indeed be somewhat impersonal though, to be sure, back then. I think the experience is better as a grad student.</p>
<p>Which is all a lot different than talking about Columbia's campus. The comparisons of the campuses themselves are rather obvious, and people may have different takes on that. Some people like big campuses, evidently some people don't.</p>
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<p>It doesn't find you a very effective searcher.</p>