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On the other hand, more money means you can afford to pay for higher quality professors/staff/technology. I took a "big data" course on Map/Reduce, Hadoop, etc
by spike021 9y ago
On the other hand, more money means you can afford to pay for higher quality professors/staff/technology.
I took a "big data" course on Map/Reduce, Hadoop, etc. We had to use VMs on our own laptops because the department couldn't afford to get us temporary AWS instances or similar.
Sure money is not a quick fix for a bad school, but it opens up more opportunities than not.
- kolinko 9y agoGood salaries are necessary, but not sufficient to attract top level talent. If the whole environment is mediocre, it won't be able to produce better research or education, regardless of money. (Speaking as someone who graduated #1 university in Poland, but nowhere near #200 globally...)
- glenneroo 9y agoRegarding your 2nd point, do those rankings actually provide any useful information? How is it fair to rate an entire university, especially when they offer multiple studies? Shouldn't the ranking be based on discipline e.g. software development, language, *ologies, etc.? Also #200 out of what? According to this Quora[0] question, there are anywhere between 26,000 and 40,000 universities globally. 200 out of 26,000 puts your university in the top 1%. https://www.quora.com/How-many-universities-are-there-in-the-US-and-the-world-and-whats-the-best-resource-to-find-this-data https://www.quora.com/How-many-universities-are-there-in-the...
- lazerpants 9y agoThis is actually part of the strength of a large gift to a university like MIT. Using the prestige of the university, and the money, you can bring in an entire cohort of capable scientists dedicated to a research area, and achieve scale via a "brain trust" that would otherwise be impossible. Other universities have indeed done this in the past with great success.