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Overrated: None. Are any other schools rated highly at all in NJ?
Underrated: None that I can think of. I have been to several NJ universities, to use their facilities to study and none of them were memorable for being inspiring places.
Tampa, Fl: USF. The councilors at my CC and the representatives at USF all claim that their engineering program is really taking off, etc. I'll just quote a friend of mine who's going for his masters there now:
"I took their master's classes while I was doing my bachelor's at UF."
Underrated: New York is home to four great tuition-free schools, and three of them are schools that hardly anyone has ever heard of (the fourth one is West Point).
Cooper Union
Webb Institute
Merchant Marine Academy
Underrated: Arizona State (say what you will about President Crowe's micromanagement tendencies, he's worked hard to rid the university of its "party school" image)
Completely worthless: Northern Arizona University (my alma mater)
Overrated: None. Are any other schools rated highly at all in NJ?
Underrated: None that I can think of. I have been to several NJ universities, to use their facilities to study and none of them were memorable for being inspiring places.
Stevens Institute of Technology has a good reputation.
I live in Michigan and this is based off of me and a few people I know that had experiences with it
Overrated:
Michigan State: From my experience, it's known more for parties and sports than academics, people say the party scene is overrated there, some people go there to live the "American Pie" life.
University of Michigan: It's harder to get into than alot of other colleges I heard. It's also known for parties and sports but education is talked about more when that school is mentioned than MSU is. Both colleges take sports (especially football) WAYYYYYY too seriously. Look at this:
From an academic standpoint, the University of Michigan is way overrated.
I would say that Stevens is rated properly.
NJIT is underrated in many fields and overrated in others.
Rutgers is way overrated for undergraduate programs.
TCNJ is underrated in certain fields while properly rated in others.
Thomas Edison is overrated in everything except professional programs.
Rider is what it is.
Former UMDNJ is what it is.
Princeton is what it is.
I belive top private schools of Texas are underrated. People dismiss them because of expensive tuition though they offer generous merit scholarships and financial aid to good students and provide great education. Public universities of Texas are great for top 10% or bottom 50% but students who fall in middle, need something more personalized to help them get where they want to go.
Rice is the only private school that get credit. SMU, Baylor, TCU and Austin College are amazing underrated institutions that offer good academics, good community support, internship opportunities, academic advising, extracurricular etc. Everyone can't thrive and reach maximum potential in impersonal environment of UT among 55,000 students.
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