Thread: Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard)
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Unread 08-11-2011, 15:56
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Re: Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard)
I will just counter the large schools one with this.

I go to Iowa State University a school with 25,000 undergraduates. I am one of about 150 Materials Engineers on campus. You can't look at the size of a school to generalize either, you have to do in depth analysis of the program.

You know what they say about what happens when you assume.

Maybe I am overly defensive but ISU's Mat E program is one of the better programs in the country and we have the most engineering grad students at ISU. The student to faculty ratio in Mat E is 6:1, pretty crazy for a state school of 25,000 and we also have things like Ames Lab and the Center for Non-destructive Evaluation. You cannot base anything on a single statistic.
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