He's a professor who has spent his entire career at one low-ranked institution. If he has a reason for being down on his own employer, where he's tenured, I'm not sure what it could be... (Also, he didn't state this as…
> I'm not convinced on this... I think there are pros and cons for being in a top 5 vs a top 50 program. Yes. That's why I used the top 50 CS programs as an equivalence class in my post: >> the difference between…
> the value a student gets from a school is largely self-directed and based on the people they meet there. For this reason, rankings (unfortunately) have more value that OP suggests. The "best" students will cluster…
There are institutions that compete on the basis of teaching quality. Often private, sometimes public. They emphasize small class sizes, do not stress research productivity in hiring or promotion, etc. Some of those…
He's a professor who has spent his entire career at one low-ranked institution. If he has a reason for being down on his own employer, where he's tenured, I'm not sure what it could be... (Also, he didn't state this as…
> I'm not convinced on this... I think there are pros and cons for being in a top 5 vs a top 50 program. Yes. That's why I used the top 50 CS programs as an equivalence class in my post: >> the difference between…
> the value a student gets from a school is largely self-directed and based on the people they meet there. For this reason, rankings (unfortunately) have more value that OP suggests. The "best" students will cluster…
There are institutions that compete on the basis of teaching quality. Often private, sometimes public. They emphasize small class sizes, do not stress research productivity in hiring or promotion, etc. Some of those…