Take MIT and Caltech for example. Although they are all the top universities in the United States with 65,438+00, just like Ivy League universities such as Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania, the number and scale of institutions of California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are far smaller than those of comprehensive universities, and compared with some public universities such as Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, UT-Austin, Madison, Wisconsin and University of Maryland, if students want a comprehensive major, rich student organizations/campus activities and the number of students, However, if students want to choose first-class science and engineering teachers, professors, world-class research teams and sufficient research funds to study and study in the alma mater of many Nobel Prize winners, then it is a science and engineering college.

Advantages of polytechnic

Resource concentration. There are few students, so small class teaching is adopted. For example, 37% of classes in California Institute of Technology are below 10, and teachers can give students more targeted guidance.

The scholarship is very generous. Because the funds are mainly concentrated in key disciplines, the probability of applying for the same major is higher than that of public universities. For example, at MIT, 80% of international students get scholarships every year, with an average of $30,000/year;

Frontier scientific research, strong teachers, emphasizing the practical application of scientific research and technology. For example, California Institute of Technology has advanced scientific research facilities, including Booth Computing Center, Hale Observatory, Seismology Laboratory, Kekhoff Marine Laboratory, Bear Solar System Observatory, Paloma Observatory, Owens Canyon Radio Observatory, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Environmental Quality Laboratory, the newly established submillimeter observatory in Hawaii and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Many famous physicists and chemists have made world-shaking discoveries at California Institute of Technology.

The employment rate is high. For example, Worcester Institute of Technology (WPI) has a very good reputation in the business community in New England. They know the tradition and history of this school very well and know that the students here are the best and most capable science and engineering students. For enterprises here, the popularity of WPI students is second only to MIT, such as Illinois Institute of Technology, ranking 106. The employment rate of students is as high as 97%.

Disadvantages of polytechnic

There are few students and a small campus. For example, the fourth-ranked California Institute of Technology has only more than 2,000 students.

There are few professional settings. Except for California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology, the departments of other institutes of technology usually focus on science and business, with less humanities and social sciences, which is not the focus of school education.

For China students, its popularity is not as good as that of comprehensive universities.