Date: February 10th, 2009 12:47 PM Author: provocative idiotic marketing idea
This is kind of a repost.
I'm wondering about Brown's Public Policy program at the Taubman center. I figured it would be good because of the name, but I have not seen it on any top MPP lists. Anyone have any knowledge on this ?
brown's mpp is too new to show up on national ranking lists yet and mpp rank lists are incredibly random/subjective anyway (no one actually believes syracuse is better than harvard)
that being said, the taubman faculty includes a lot of high profile national academic experts as well as practitioners (former senators, etc.)
they also have the ability to draw big names to campus to give talks (barack obama and both clintons for instance within the last two years)
the mpp is mostly about connections anyway and brown definitely has them
Date: February 10th, 2009 2:26 PM Author: Vivacious locale macaca
Brown is a shit hole. the worst thing about its graduate programs is that they are ridiculously selective relative to their quality. it's amazing that people will even pay the application fee.
Brown's grad programs are mostly for losers who want to brag about going to an Ivy, when anyone who is remotely knowledgeable would be able to tell that their program is shit. However, it's doubtful that these hacks could have done markedly better. They just prefer a shit program at Brown to a higher-ranked program at some state school.
Date: February 10th, 2009 3:38 PM Author: Vivacious locale macaca
I just wonder how Brown masks the fact that it's a rancid, festering TTT wasteland at the graduate level to admitted students (at least at the PhD level). Does it rigorously employ Tufts syndrome, or are the people who go there really vain enough to pick a 40th-ranked program at Brown over a 10th-ranked program at, say, the University of Washington?
Date: February 11th, 2009 1:06 PM Author: Vivacious locale macaca
i also own my own home, have 6 figures in the bank, have no debt, don't pay tuition, and make over 60k per year while in grad school. might not be impressive by xoxo standards, but i'll gladly take it for now (as someone well under 30 and still not 100% sure what he wants to do with his life).
Date: February 11th, 2009 12:03 PM Author: magenta charismatic space
Brown does have a handful of good graduate programs-Classics and Applied Math are among the tops in their categories. The regular programs: English, History, etc are decently placed. Terms like shit and TTT are too casually tossed about on this board.
But Brown is still an overwhelmingly undergraduate school.