<p>A highly ranked graduate department presumably has faculty who are productive researchers in their field. This may be beneficial to undergraduates, provided those faculty teach undergraduates, they are effective teachers, and they integrate their research into their teaching.</p>
<p>Research seems to be divided on the relationship between research productivity and teaching effectiveness:
<a href=“http://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/teachingandcourseeval/documents/Aleamoni_Student_Rating_Myths.pdf[/url]”>http://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/teachingandcourseeval/documents/Aleamoni_Student_Rating_Myths.pdf</a> (see Myth #2).
[Research</a> Productivity and Teaching Effectiveness.](<a href=“http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED215637&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED215637]Research”>http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED215637&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED215637)
<a href=“The Department of Physics”>The Department of Physics; </p>
<p>(The consensus appears to be that there is no evidence in practice of a strong positive correlation between research productivity and teaching effectiveness.)</p>