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What justifies paying 53k a year for Harvard? I went to a state university for my undergrad in CS. Would I have learned anything different at Harvard?
by martin1975 4y ago
What justifies paying 53k a year for Harvard? I went to a state university for my undergrad in CS. Would I have learned anything different at Harvard?
- bombcar 4y agoLikely the education would be similar or even worse at Harvard. But the main thing you get is graduating from Harvard, and knowing everyone from your class and school. Those connections are huge, depending on the field you're going into. An MBA from a state school might work if you're staying in-state, but an MBA from an elite school opens the world.
- vecter 4y agoWhy would their education be worse at Harvard?
- bombcar 4y agoEither Harvard is the best possible college for all their majors or it is not. If it is, then it should be worth any reasonable amount. If it is not, then there is some other college somewhere that is better at at least one major.
- vecter 4y agoI don’t understand this reasoning. Besides the fact that it just seems logically incorrect, it totally avoids the question of why a CS education from an unknown state school would be better than Harvard’s. Harvard’s undergraduate CS program is not in the top 10 (if you believe US News’s rankings, which I always take with a huge grain of salt), but that doesn’t mean that it’s worse that State U’s.
- bombcar 4y agoWhich is why I said "similar or even worse" - there's no guarantee it's better. And if University of California, Berkley is better than Harvard at CS, then there you go, a state school that is better. The possibility certainly exists.