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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 3998053, member: 7631"] (Thread drift alert!) I know several folks who went to small-to-mid-sized universities (especially Brandeis) who thought the instruction was quite good. I'd certainly like to hear from other folks out there. That said, I went to a NESCAC college and to graduate school at a mid-sized research university with a pretty good reputation. There are two overarching differences I observed in addition to the different foci (graduate vs. undergraduate). The first is that even at a highly selective university, it was quite possible to skate through without working that hard. Not so at the small college. The second was that I thought the university prepared undergrads for a career much better than the college. The college was more rigorous in what it taught, but that learning was really pretty focused on the academic rather than the practical. [/QUOTE]