milias
danielmrtns
Really?! NYU is ranked #25 at Business Week? Trailing Elon U., U. of Nevada and U. of Denver (the same school that e-mails me every week to tell me that they are still waiting for my application; have promised me priority app review; and have extended the application deadline for me a couple of times, even though I never showed any interest in applying there)?
NYU's part time program has the same faculty as its full time counterpart, which is ranked top 15 nationwide. And I am pretty confident to assume that its placement record is better than 90% of the schools mentioned in the ranking above.
This tells me more than I need to know about the reputation of BW’s ranking.
I just wanted to share something that a friend of mine told me about Stern's part-time program, which he is considering. Basically what he heard was that if you hand in your homework - emphasis on "hand in" - you're guaranteed to pass the class, regardless of the quality of what you hand in. I don't know if it's true or not, but that's just one (and only) data point that I have. If it's true, it doesn't bode well for the quality of the part-time program. That said, from what I've heard, the quality of its full-time program is solid.
Hello, Milias!
I have heard comments like this regarding PT programs in general (a friend of mine went to UConn part time and told me pretty much the same story). Because PT students are full time workers, who often times have a family of spouse and kids at home, I can see why schools would try to make "life easier" for these students -- or risk becoming too unappealing of an option for busy professionals. Whether right or wrong, I can see that happening. The same situation may very well happen at NYU, although this is hard to prove or confirm.
What struck me here, however, are two different things: #1, although I understand that different criteria are used, how can there be so much difference between the two rankings? What happend to consistency? So is NYU the best program out there or is it a mediocre one? Is it fair to average the two rankings and call NYU's PT program a "middle-of-the-packer"? It just doesn't pass the smell test.
#2, even if I assume that the PT program at NYU has fundamental flaws and is not, say, a top 5 program in the country, does it make sense to say that it trails University of Denver? University of Nevada? Just ask yourself this question: would you rather have a degree from NYU or from Elon University? Once again, I am just applying a high-level "smell test" here, and not going deeper into an analysis of BW's ranking criteria.
Thanks for the reply.