Why choose a research university?

College Search & Selection
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What are some schools besides LACs that offer good student-teacher ratios/average class sizes.

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Caltech is one example.

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<p>Caltech is a good example of a top research university that also has great ratios. However, it's professors' quality and teaching ability are consistently called out to be abysmal by its own students. We can all dismiss the Princeton Review's rankings as spurious and arbitrary, but not when a school like Caltech is called out several years in a row for having notorious bad professors.</p>

<p>Well, your example does refute the "gross generalization" you made.</p>

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<p>If you're interested in engineering or science, national research universities will have labs and facilities that simply don't exist at a typical LAC. Also LACs typically don't get involved with things like Formula SAE and DARPA Challenge competitions because they don't have the resources and sponsorships.</p>