IIT vs MIT

[Proletariat]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
Dilbert

:laugh:

 

[AgentEL]

Originally posted by: GeneValgene
rankings are always flawed and controversial, but here's the world's top 200 universities according to the Times Higher Education Supplement

pdf direct link

IIT is ranked 3rd in technology (behind MIT and UC-Berkeley)

IIT is ranked 36th in science

IIT is ranked 50th overall of all world universities...

not too shabby if you ask me

No, not shabby at all. I'm not saying IIT is a bad school at all. I'm just saying that notions that IIT is comparable to MIT are unfounded. Also, if you look at how far behind IIT is in points in the Technology category, IIT isn't nearly at comparable level. They are ranked higher than Stanford, which is impressive in itself.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: nikhilesh
Hmmmm.......

But then MIT and its students are considered to be the best in the world?

Is that recognition only based on the infrastructure of MIT?

Achievements, nobel prize winners, published papers, patents, inventions. Lookup some of the international college ratings, MIT is always in the top 5.

I hope you're not trying to insinuate that MIT is somehow not the top engineering/math/it university in the world...

Comparing the two schools:
top 100 universities in the world

MIT #5
IIT 202-302 bracket

Strictly speaking, a university degree only servles you as a means of getting a job.
So using that perspective, two idetical candidates one an MIT grad and one IIT grad, the MIT alum is better off.

The Times Higher Education SUpplement is a far better source.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Higher_Education_Supplement

CALIFORNIA BABY! But clearly MIT is right there too.....

 

[sash1]

199: Wake Forest University

^ Yeah, b!tch!

BTW, my father went to IIT Kharagpur. They are very good schools, and very hard to get into.

 

[Dessert Tears]

Originally posted by: Gibson486
The difficulty getting into that school is way up there, but once you are in I am not sure you could call the school any hardrer than another. I have a guy who i work with that went to MIT and all he says is that it was good, it was fun and he worked hard. He really never mentions anything like MIT being really difficult.

MIT is significantly more difficult than at least some other schools. I knew a few transfer students that were cruising at their old schools (not top-tier, but not terrible either) and had to knuckle down. Your coworker is probably somewhat academically-gifted. The less academically-sound graduates tend to whine about how hard it was.

Originally posted by: zoiks
3 of my coworkers are from MIT. Two with dual majors and they said that it wasn't really that hard. But then they might already be very good at school as it is.
For me its hard to grasp a difficult concept but when I do get it, I find myself pretty involved in it.

The difficulty of double-majoring depends heavily on the majors selected. For example, 18 (Math) requires fewer courses due to core reqs and cross-counting electives for the other major, while 15 (Management) is just easy in general.

Originally posted by: bhanson
I read somewhere not too long ago that MIT is the hardest university to get in to (undergraduate) in the USA.

I don't think that's true unless the metric is somehow skewed.

 

[Cattlegod]

school means jack for the most part. you show your true potential in the real world.

 

[Martin]

the real question is... ITT vs. MIT.

 

[Ready]

neither one can hold a candle to Devry

 

[KillerCharlie]

From what I've been told by professors who've been there and students who've been there, MIT is a pretty crappy place to get an undergraduate degree. Most classes are taught by TA's, not professors. Graduate school is another story, but I sure wouldn't want to go there as an undergraduate. As long as you're in a top 20 university in the US, you're golden.

 

[Caesar]

I am from IIT Bombay and I couldn't care less about what people think cuz I kick everyone's ass at my work everyday. 1.5 years of work exp and I am the technical lead and will be a project manager in less than another 1.5 years without even having a PE.

 

[Ready]

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
From what I've been told by professors who've been there and students who've been there, MIT is a pretty crappy place to get an undergraduate degree. Most classes are taught by TA's, not professors. Graduate school is another story, but I sure wouldn't want to go there as an undergraduate. As long as you're in a top 20 university in the US, you're golden.

But based on the few MTI graduates I know with EE degrees, I've been very impressed by their thinking abilities.