<p>From their website <a href="http://soe.stanford.edu/about/facts.html%5B/url%5D">http://soe.stanford.edu/about/facts.html</a> there are a lot more grad engineering students than undergrad (3,145 to 676), even more than the Stanford's overall 10,285 to 6,422 grad/undergrad ratio. Why is this? Is this a good thing? What are the pros and cons?</p>
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From their website <a href="http://soe.stanford.edu/about/facts.html%5B/url%5D">http://soe.stanford.edu/about/facts.html</a> there are a lot more grad engineering students than undergrad (3,145 to 676), even more than the Stanford's overall 10,285 to 6,422 grad/undergrad ratio. Why is this? Is this a good thing? What are the pros and cons?
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<p>Well, keep in mind that undergrads don't have to declare a major until their junior year or so. Many of the undeclared lower-classmen are de-facto engineering students in that they are taking engineering classes and will declare engineering when the time comes, they just don't need to do so yet. So the ratio of grad to undergrad is not as large as it seems.</p>