<p>I would say the quality of academic and career advising is not very good anywhere. Faculty are not rewarded enough for advising. You have to take the initiative to seek out faculty and ask for guidance, especially if you don't like the advisor to whom you were randomly assigned. Otherwise, you get the standard half-hour of academic scheduling and transcript review per semester. </p>
<p>A smart student will recruit his or her own support system.</p>
<p>If you get involved with a professor's work as a TA or RA, then you will have greater access to good advice from someone who cares about you.</p>
<p>The situation may be better at LACs than Unis. Not sure, just a guess.</p>
<p>I would say that isn't true at all collegehelp. My experience at Dartmouth (a quasi LAC) vs. Columbia (a University) was that at the LACish school I had much much more contact with my professors. At places like Dartmouth, Princeton, and Amherst faculty look at undergrad-faculty interaction with a badge of honor. I was easily able to form strong relationships with professors during my undergrad years and I think going to an undergrad focused school had a lot to do with this.</p>
<p>I am talking about formal academic and career advising.</p>
<p>I also had strong relationships with faculty, slipper, but it was because I had both a TA and RA for 4 years. The advisor that was assigned to me spent very little time and only did the minimum. </p>
<p>I also had good relationships with faculty who taught the courses I took. But, that was an informal academic relationship. We talked about subject matter. They were almost all enthusiastic about their subject.</p>
<p>But, if I wanted someone's advice about which courses to take, how to prepare for grad school, how to craft grad school apps, where to apply, how to secure internships, etc. I had to take the initiative.</p>
<p>Are you sure the faculty at Dartmouth did these things of their own accord?</p>
<p>among engineering, we only offer general engineering degree. meaning, we dont offer a specific degree in chemical engineering, aerospace engineering, etc. We do, however, offer degrees in 5 other areas: physics, biology, chemistry, computer science, and math, as well as some hybrids and off campus majors at the other colleges.</p>
<p>Sorry to disrupt the Harvey Mudd talk.. How about Swarthmore grads? What are their job prospects if they decide not to go to grad school? Job overseas?</p>
<p>I've said this before, but I'll say it again. The worst teacher I've ever had in my life is now a second-year professor at Mudd. He was a full professor at Princeton and had produced some ridiculously good research there. However, he cannot teach. He never once looked at the class, didn't seem to know anything about what he was teaching, and seemed to be afraid to actually teach. From what I've heard from my friends at Princeton and other ivy league schools, professors like this actually common. However, he is at Mudd now. I guess Mudd is subject to nepotism too. </p>
<p>A Princeton engineering degree is generally not as good as a Mudd engineering degree. Mudd is a top 5 engineering school for undergraduates. Yes, you can go on about how we only offer general engineering. But, the small size of our school has advantages too.</p>
<p>"Er, there are non-engineering students at Harvey Mudd? I thought they only offered the engineering degree..."</p>
<p>As said before (with rough number of grads per year in year major):
Mudd has Biology (10), Mathematical Biology (3), Chemistry (10), Physics (25), Computer Science (35), Math/Computer Science (5), Mathematics (20), Engineering (65)</p>
<p>Double Major: 2 or 3 (?)
Double Major including engineering: 0.25</p>