Hey!
What do you guys think, which one is better: Franklin & Marshall or Warsaw University of Technology? I am going to major in computer science. Warsaw University of Technology is quite good, it’s probably the best in Poland, but how does it compare to Franklin & Marshall? What would you guys recommend?
If you speak Polish and are comfortable with the European style of higher education, Warsaw University is much much better for CS.
Obviously, however, if you plan on returning to the US, you may find that WUT simply doesn’t have as much name recognition, stature, or credibility as F&M (I am not suggesting that this is either fair ot reasonable – I honestly do not know – but F&M is a well respected/well known Eastern LAC, whereas I suspect not one college educated American in fifty can knows much/anything about WUT).
@whenhen @TopTier I am actually from Belarus, and for the last 6 months I’ve been living in Poland, so I speak some Polish. I don’t know where I want to work after graduation, the question is more about the quality of education and finding a job than about cultural differences.
My point in post #2 relates directly to finding a job in the US. I suspect most – by far – US hiring managers, immediate supervisors, and (critically) their bosses would essentially say, “WUT, what’s that, I never heard of it, and I’m not going to squander my time interviewing a WUT graduate.” Most assuredly, this does NOT mean they would necessarily be wise or correct to do so. However, any time an individual hires someone with an unknown educational background, he incurs a risk; whereas, hiring an F&M alum is not nearly as chancy.
WUT is unknown in the US, but will be known by grad schools, so you could attend WUT and still go to the US for grad school.
The experience itself will be VERY different; WUT is a commuter school. Essentially, you go there and take classes. Its prestige is excellent in Poland and Eastern Europe, but it’s not very well-known otherwise (ie., you wouldn’t impress a French or Finnish employer). It will be known by Engineering grad schools in Europe though.
Franklin&Marshall isn’t very well-known by employers in the US either, but more so than WUT, and it’s very well-known by grad schools. It enjoys quite a lot of prestige in the Eastern US. It’s a residential college. Education isn’t thought of as being strictly “taking classes”. It’s a set of experiences. For example, instead of taking notes on what a professor says for 1 hour, you’ll have a reading to be done before the class, the professor will ask a question, and the students will provide a variety of answers and discuss them. Then the professor will offer a synthesis of the best points. It’s much more interactive.
I don’t know how much access to research projects WUT undergrads have. Typically, in Europe, undergrads don’t have any access to research, which harms them in their US grad school prospects. Check into this. F&M professors are hired because of their ability to involve undergrads in research, so you’d have better odds than at WUT.