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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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Humor me for a minute. What is PSU like as a university?
I know they cured cancer and all that bullshit. But where does it rank in comparison to the rest of the B1G's powerhouse schools.
I suspect due to it's size (and Pennsylvania's relative wealth), it's well funded and has all of the trademarks of the land grant schools (nice hospital, big law school, good engineering school....etc).

Do your best to try and ignore the whole JoPah fiasco. Is Penn State a good undergrad university?
 
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BigWoof31 said:
Humor me for a minute. What is PSU like as a university?
I know they cured cancer and all that bull[Mark May]. But where does it rank in comparison to the rest of the B1G's powerhouse schools.
I suspect due to it's size (and Pennsylvania's relative wealth), it's well funded and has all of the trademarks of the land grant schools (nice hospital, big law school, good engineering school....etc).

Do your best to try and ignore the whole JoPah fiasco. Is Penn State a good undergrad university?
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Despite what the pedsters think, it's roughly in the middle of the Big Ten academically. For comparison's sake, it's easier to get into than Ohio State, does less research and has a smaller endowment, but the gaps aren't substantial. I think anyone outside of BWI would say that the schools are essentially peers. It has a great engineering school (somewhat better than Ohio State's, which has seemed to slip over the last decade) but still not at the level of Illinois, Michigan or Purdue. Law and med schools lag the rest of the Big Ten substantially though--probably a historical legacy of its isolated rural location (or perhaps they weren't high priorities of Joesus when he was building up the university). Pitt has the better law school and by a huge margin the better medical school as well as being designated a comprehensive cancer center.

It's a good undergraduate university on paper, but given what we've learned about their cultish alumni, I'd never send a kid there when there are plenty of equally good or better Big Ten universities available.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Despite what the pedsters think, it's roughly in the middle of the Big Ten academically. For comparison's sake, it's easier to get into than Ohio State, does less research and has a smaller endowment, but the gaps aren't substantial. I think anyone outside of BWI would say that the schools are essentially peers. It has a great engineering school (somewhat better than Ohio State's, which has seemed to slip over the last decade) but still not at the level of Illinois, Michigan or Purdue. Law and med schools lag the rest of the Big Ten substantially though--probably a historical legacy of its isolated rural location (or perhaps they weren't high priorities of Joesus when he was building up the university). Pitt has the better law school and by a huge margin the better medical school as well as being designated a comprehensive cancer center.

It's a good undergraduate university on paper, but given what we've learned about their cultish alumni, I'd never send a kid there when there are plenty of equally good or better Big Ten universities available.
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Penn State actually has 2 law schools. They merged with Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, PA in 2000, and last year spun it off as a second law school. Probably they intend to build one up while using the other as a cash cow (although the "third tier toilet" law school economic model appears to be a few years past its peak).
 
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Woody1968 said:
Penn State actually has 2 law schools. They merged with Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, PA in 2000, and last year spun it off as a second law school. Probably they intend to build one up while using the other as a cash cow (although the "third tier toilet" law school economic model appears to be a few years past its peak).
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So, the state of Ohio is finally going to shut down Akron's?
 
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