<p>I know quite a bit now about Brandeis and UR. The thread you linked to is hilariously bad; there are repeated, uninformed statements about Brandeis being better in sciences. All I can say is you’ve got to be kidding. UR is a top tier research university with the leading optics center in the world. It gets like $400M in research $$ and is 7th in earnings from technology. The sciences at UR are huge and the campus is literally next to the medical complex with the labs and facilities for undergrads in many cases being the same buildings used by the grad programs and researchers. </p>
<p>Brandeis is a very good school with a number of strengths but that thread crossed into an alternate dimension.</p>