RPI engineering town hall

Colleges and Universities A-Z Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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<p>Searching for a particular program at RPI I stumbled across this town hall doc from the Dean of Engineering. Looks like a goal to decrease undergrad headcount in engineering. Interested in comments........</p>

<p><a href="http://rpi.edu/academics/engineering/files/rosowsky/townhall_oct2011.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://rpi.edu/academics/engineering/files/rosowsky/townhall_oct2011.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>It appears to be driven by rankings. With fewer students they reduce student/faculty ratios and possibly increase the selectivity. It also looks like they de-emphasized the Masters programs in favor of Ph.D.</p>

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<p>Somewhere I saw a ranking of schools based on number of students who go on to PhD’s and RPI was on that list while some Big 10 schools were not even on that list. I know that has something to do with size of school but still great to see RPI on that list.</p>

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<p>The Master’s program is more important for developing professional engineers. The Ph.D. program is more important for improving school rank.</p>