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Anonymous at Sat, 11 May 2024 20:24:50 UTC No. 16171255
Is STEM education really the same regardless of how highly ranked the college is?
A lot of people I used to hear say that if you major ina fine either or engineering that it doesn’t really matter where you go to college as the dictation is all the same. The idea was that things like the humanities are taught differently at say harvard than a random state school. But since technical subjects are so objective, if you go to a low ranked local school and major in physics, there’s nothing special you won’t be learning that someone who studied physics at Harvard learned. How true is this? Obviously it matters for employment but just about the things you learn are there things that the elite colleges will go over that the low ranked ones will not? Is there really much of a difference from what a physics or pure maths major will have to learn at a random state school compared to someone at cal tech!
Pic related went to a local salarian university majored in stem and did great things
Anonymous at Sat, 11 May 2024 20:26:19 UTC No. 16171257
>>16171255
Most academics are lazy pieces of trash and will all copy their notes from the same textbooks, so mostly yes.
Anonymous at Sat, 11 May 2024 20:32:55 UTC No. 16171272
>>16171255
School ranking matters less than the quality of the instructors (and their ability to help you network connections for graduate education or the job market); and while it's true that high-ranking schools often attract and hire better instructors and have more resources to help students network, it doesn't mean that smaller schools don't.
Anonymous at Sat, 11 May 2024 20:53:06 UTC No. 16171301
>>15833839
>Reminder: /sci/ is for discussing topics pertaining to science and mathematics, not for helping you with your homework or helping you figure out your career path.
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Anonymous at Sat, 11 May 2024 21:19:15 UTC No. 16171339
>>16171301
This isn’t advice as I have already graduated from university. It’s a question to ask about what really the education is like. As you can see in the question it does not pertain to what sort of colleges gives the best career prospects or if low ranked colleges are offering employable degrees comparable to high ranked universities. It is a question to ask if someone graduates with a degree in physics from a low ranked state school have they learned pretty much the same thing that someone from Princeton learned? So thank you for pointing out the rules but as you should now be able to see this post is not breaking the rule you quoted.
Anonymous at Sat, 11 May 2024 22:09:31 UTC No. 16171400
>>16171339
No. There is a certain air around the elite fart smellers. You have to be there to understand. While they have technically checked all of the same boxes, the manner in which it was done was different. And there are other unmarked boxes for the poor folks, primarily centered around meaningful networking. Your low-tier physishit friends, indeed if you made any, did not participate with intelligent people their whole lives and they didn't do so in an intelligent manner. They have nothing to pull on.
You gained nothing from the professors beyond the technical minimum, etc.
You see, where you fucked up is not leveraging the technical competence into a masters or better at a premium locale. But you are also here... so I don't think that would even help you.
Anonymous at Sat, 11 May 2024 22:14:59 UTC No. 16171408
>>16171255
speaking as someone who went to a shitty no-name college and then an upper-mid graduate school, no, it is not the same at all
that is copium from people who for whatever reason couldn't/didn't go to a good school
Anonymous at Sat, 11 May 2024 22:35:02 UTC No. 16171429
>>16171408
What’s exactly different in terms of the curriculum? Like are the physics majors at top university’s learning advanced quantum mechanics while everyone else learns basic quantum mechanics?
Anonymous at Sat, 11 May 2024 22:37:21 UTC No. 16171431
>>16171408
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXb
Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 09:25:58 UTC No. 16172011
>>16171255
Doesn't fucking matter a bit if you're seriously actually interested in learning that topic. I went to princeton from a community college for a math degree and it wasn't all that different. It's just that the people around you are trying unlike people in most colleges so it changes the social atmosphere of teachers and students compared to other colleges. You also get access to some other resources via profs and college provided stuff. The things that they teach you pretty much is the average stuff taught in most colleges. it's just that everyone is trying to get good marks and the college puts out questions which expect you to have learned the materials in classes & also have researched/practiced on your own so it seems different than your other colleges. This basically gives it's students ego trip and makes them think they're better than other students but if you give them anything that they'll have to figure out on their own they'll immediately fucking crumble down. Other than that culture aspect not really much different. Also btw these faggots in ivy league don't even go to ivy league cause they love the subject. The subject becomes a part of their lives rather than their lives being a part of that particular subject. Specially if you start talking to these people you'll really understand how cheap of a person they really are underneath all that false-glamour that they radiate
Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 09:44:15 UTC No. 16172018
>>16171255
Low tier unis or colleges have only theoretical courses and no practical work.
That does not fly in the private sector you will not be able to get a job.
this >>16171272