Above all, weigh large loans and sticker shock against the dividends of learning with first-rate faculty and socializing with smart, stimulating students who become spouses, friends and, along with alumni, a professional network.
While he got offers from several top schools, he says Haas offered a combination of first-rate faculty, connections to an entrepreneurial ecosystem, and a great location.
As Dean, Wellington had a major impact on the image and reputation of New York Law School, by putting together and overseeing a first-rate faculty, whose well-established scholarship continues to earn respect and admiration from the legal community.
Winternitz accomplished many more fundamental changes to the School, at the same time building up a first-rate faculty that put Yale among the top medical institutions in the U.S. and stabilizing the School financially.
Recruiting first-rate faculty and staff is a top priority for Cornell, and in support of that goal the Cornell Dual Career Program offers job search information and assistance to dual career spouses or partners.
It consistently leads rankings of statistics departments by maintaining a distinguished and prolific research record, a stimulating research environment with outstanding computing facilities, a broad and modern curriculum, and attracting first-rate faculty and the very best of graduate students.
The remarkable facilities, beautiful vistas and first-rate faculty are certainly all there.
Education at a liberal arts institution often provides access to first-rate faculty in many different departments and actively fosters thinking across disciplines - a key skill for any profession, even in a STEM field - and helps to minimize "group think".
The faculty is first rate; nearly two-thirds hold degrees from Oxford University or Cambridge University; nearly half hold doctorates in their fields; many hold teaching assignments at other universities in Oxford.
In addition, Hamid and Tina Moghadam have also provided generous support enabling us to engage first-rate Stanford faculty and experts throughout the development field as instructors in Summer Fellows program.
