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College Rankings - Most Manageable Workloads
Tough classes can be intimidating, especially when the homework piles up. Students weigh in on the colleges and universities with the most manageable workloads.</p>
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<p>Shouldn’t schools like Caltech, MIT, and Harvey Mudd be last (although, some Ivies like Harvard and Princeton are fairly difficult. However, most are not in the sciences at these schools, so the workload will not be high for most). Those places are generally just a lot more difficult (not only is there a lot of work, but the level is just generally higher). Tech is very challenging, but maybe there is a difference in perception based upon expectations of the student body. For example, students at Tech may expect it to be challenging for most but easier for them because they have “x number of science and math IB/AP credits”, whereas students at the others are simply less surprised about the workload and where they stand w/respect to the caliber of the academics. Student surveys are somewhat unreliable here. You can get a better idea by like using things like MIT Open Courseware, or looking at the Caltech website and finding some courses that “equate” to the Tech version. Student surveys will give you more of an internal sentiment without the comparative aspect. In addition, students at some schools like to whine more about the workload than others, and sometimes it isn’t justified (like, for example, if you’re a natural sciences major at Berkeley, you don’t get to complain as if you are engineering, math, CS, or physics, yet they do it anyway and complain about the pre-med program which isn’t really even near as tough as most of its “private school friends”). Seriously, ignore those “CP” rankings. They for example, have UGA ranked as having a higher workload than several places and we know it doesn’t despite the improvements in their academics.</p>
<p>What is it about Georgia Tech? It looks like a great fit for what I want, but it has such a low graduation rate and gets a lot of mixed reviews ffom students.</p>
<p>The graduation rate often reflects graduation ‘in 4 years’. GA Tech has a huge co-op program that many students take advantage of. They may not ‘graduate’ in 4 years, but as a result of the co-op program many have jobs lined up before they graduate and most have gained skills that make them much more marketable upon graduation.</p>