I know some undergrads who don't write a thesis but still get into top doctoral programs. Writing a thesis is definitely great experience to have before you get into grad school not just because it looks good on the CV or it helps to pull it out for your sample paper but because you ...
Let’s take Oxford University as an example. You might suspect it would be just as difficult to be admitted to and as expensive as, say, Harvard or Stanford. But depending on what a student wants to major in, acceptance ratescan reach up to 17%, compared with3% to 4% for equally hig...
Rodi, interim associate dean of the College of Business Administration and clinical associate professor of business administration at the University of Pittsburgh, says it is common for business undergrads to have double majors so that they can simultaneously develop expertise in...
andthe second best college for philosophy—sodespite enrolling slightly more STEM undergrads, Columbia is by no means exclusively a STEM-focused college. Its Arts and Social Sciences departments are highly regarded, so students shouldn't feel like pursuing something other than a STEM field...
Students in biology, geology, and most engineering fields will need to studychemistry, for it is the science that underpins everything having to do with materials and matter. Undergrads will typically study both organic and solid-state chemistry, and they can go on to careers in areas such as...
Raj Chetty, a prominent faculty member whom Harvard recently poached back from Stanford, this spring unveiled“Economics 1152: Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems.”Taught with the help of lecturer Greg Bruich, the class garnered 375 students, including 363 undergrads, in its fir...
—and you may even have had internships in your field. Those provide valuable "real-world" credentials that will likely be more impressive to potential employers than your degree itself. Can you lead and inspire those in your charge (i.e., a classroom full of twenty skeptical undergrads)?
While most college students toil arduously through the study and paper-writing processes, there exists an elite group of undergrads who have discovered unconventional strategies for earning much higher grades in much less time. I wanted to share these secrets with other students, and thus the idea...
And it's really expensive. Back when I was at IIT, there was no financial aid for foreign undergrads. I don't know if things are different now but we are talking upwards of $50K per year. In my opinion, you are not going to get in unless you have something big in your p...
though—you can Google it yourself. You'll see thatStanford is in theUS News' top-ranked engineering schools,while Harvard and Yale are nowhere near the top 10. Part of this, however, is a self-fulfilling prophecy: because good engineering-type undergrads come here, it becomes an ideal pla...