How reputed is the University of Minnesota internationally?

[Thedosius]

Originally Posted by WoodburyWoody

Wisconsin is in trouble, not just at the system campuses but also at Madison. As more faculty flee, grants go with them. They are already losing students as well, who want better

This is just the beginning:

Faculty uneasy about working at UW after cuts, tenure changes : Wsj

It will take a lot of effort to right that ship after this. So sad, such great faculty and institutions in the UW system.

It's difficult to believe the UW's ability to attract and retain the best candidates will not be impacted by the cuts and changes and tenure, despite Walker's Orwellian double-speak that these are 'reforms' that will 'make things better'. Still, this article is more full of inuendo and assumptions about what will happen than any real concrete facts. Two anecdotes that are at best ambiguously related to Walker's actions aren't sufficient. Regardless of whether I might agree with the author's viewpoints on these changes (I do), the article feels manipulative to me and I resent that.

[cheddar]

Interestingly, a highly-regarded sociologist recently moved from Minnesota to Wisconsin. Not everyone is moving out.

[Apple Tree]

To answer your question: Somewhere below Harvard but above the University of Colorado or Oregon.

To not answer your question: The better person will go further than the average person, regardless of where they went to school.

[Yvanung]

I know that prestige can only do so much as far as my field is concerned.

Originally Posted by Apple Tree

To answer your question: Somewhere below Harvard but above the University of Colorado or Oregon.

To not answer your question: The better person will go further than the average person, regardless of where they went to school.

CU-Boulder is world-renowned in just one field: physics. An AMO, solar physics or condensed matter buff will find satisfaction at CU-Boulder.

[Yvanung]

There are two things I dislike of PAN (Physics and Nanotechnology Building): the clean room on the first two floors is designed like a zoo enclosure, that is, that lab has windows leading up to the outside for everyone to see the actual experiments being performed in there. And also the lack of classroom space (PAN110 and PAN120 are the only classrooms in this building)...

Originally Posted by WoodburyWoody

Wisconsin is in trouble, not just at the system campuses but also at Madison. As more faculty flee, grants go with them. They are already losing students as well, who want better

This is just the beginning:

Faculty uneasy about working at UW after cuts, tenure changes : Wsj

It will take a lot of effort to right that ship after this. So sad, such great faculty and institutions in the UW system.

In physics alone: Chubukov and Perkins, both condensed matter theorists, ended up at Minnesota.