NYU vs Colgate

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<p>Hey forum.</p>

<p>I got accepted to both Colgate and NYU(CAS) and I am now torn between both of them. I am international, and there are no financial issues at all. I understand that both colleges are ridiculously different, and I applied to them for different reasons. I'm interested in the social sciences and humanities. (political science, history, economics etc).</p>

<p>Colgate - I love liberal arts, and I love a small college. However, I cannot imagine being so isolated for 4 years.</p>

<p>NYU - I've lived in a MASSIVE city all my life. I can't really imagine life outside a city. Also, I liked my visit to NYU. </p>

<p>The area I am confused in the most, however, is academics. I was hoping the forum could help me out here.</p>

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<p>Political Science, Economics and History are all excellent departments at NYU. </p>

<p>Political Science:
NYU ranks #17 overall for political science in the US (above Cornell, Northwestern, WUStL, Emory, UPenn, UVA, Rice, Brown, Vanderbilt, GW, Gtown, Hopkins and so on)
NYU ranks #6 for political methodology (For comparison #5 is Princeton, #10 MIT, #11 Yale and #13 Columbia)
NYU ranks #12 for comparative politics (Duke is #10, Cornell #11, MIT #14, UChicago #14, Northwestern #16)
NYU ranks #10 for international politics (tied with MIT, and above Duke, Cornell, UCLA, Hopkins and Gtown) </p>

<p>Economics:
NYU ranks #12 overall for economics (Columbia is #10, UMichigan tied with NYU #12, CalTech #14, Cornell #18, Brown and Duke tied for #19)
NYU ranks #10 for Development Economics (ahead of UPenn, Stanford and UCLA)
NYU ranks #12 for Econometrics
NYU ranks #12 for Industrial Organization (Ahead of UMichigan)
NYU ranks #13 for International Economics (ahead of UCLA and UPenn)
NYU ranks #6 for Macroeconomics (UPenn is at #7, Northwestern #8 and Stanford, UCLA, Yale, Columbia and UCB all after that)
NYU ranks #10 for Microeconomics (Columbia is #13)</p>

<p>History:
NYU ranks #17 for history overall (Above UVa, Vanderbilt, Emory, etc)
NYU ranks #6 for African American History (Above Princeton, UNC, Northwestern, Columbia and UCB)
NYU ranks #7 for Cultural History (Tied with UPenn, #9 UMichigan, #11 Columbia tied with Cornell tied with Stanford)
NYU ranks #18 for European History (Cornell #16)
NYU ranks #16 for Modern US History (tied with Hopkins)
NYU ranks #10 for US Colonial History (Above Brown, Cornell, Duke, UCLA, Northwestern, Stanford, UCB)
NYU ranks #14 for Women’s History (tied with Stanford)</p>

<p>I think this should attest to the academic excellence of NYU :)</p>

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<p>Thank you so much. I am leaning towards NYU for sure, and this does help. Could you tell me where you got these rankings from so I can have a look at other rankings as well?</p>

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<p>These are the USNews graduate rankings by subject.</p>

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<p>Thank You NYU2013 for your awesome help and information!</p>

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OP, I hope you know that there is nothing “official” about USNEWS rankings and that other ranking organizations will see things differently. (For example, Foreign Policy Magazine recently ranked the top ten international relations undergraduate programs–NYU was not among them.) Also note that graduate school rankings are not necessarily an indicator of the quality of undergraduate instruction. One area you might want to look into is the extent to which courses at NYU may be taught by graduate students (I have no idea if it’s an issue at NYU, but it’s the kind of thing can that distinguish a liberal arts college from a university).</p>

<p>But in the end, both of these schools are excellent choices, and your desire to live in an urban environment seems to compel the choice of NYU.</p>