It's very easy to get accepted, it's very hard to survuve the five official years the degree takes, which become eight on average. The dropout rate is fifty percent in the first two years, and thirty percent of what's left after that.
so you have to do most of the work by yourself with pen, paper and textbook anyway.
What's the point of making us go to a building, then?
you could just as well have the students watch lecture videos off YouTube.
And if the videos were well done, it would be a net improvement.
lots of tutoring with a single tutor working with just one or two students and working on whatever stuff they needed to be doing.
That's only for postgrads, though, right?
lots of tutoring with a single tutor working with just one or two students and working on whatever stuff they needed to be doing.
That's only for postgrads, though, right?
It's for undergrads across all subjects. See tutorial system.
I wish to transfer to a university in Europe, to complete my engineering formation. I thought it might be the opportunity to initiate a discussion on the merits of European technical schools, given how many people here have a STEM background, and have experienced the first-hand.
Which ones do you think are best at teaching? Which provide the best starting point, professionally? Which have the most productive, idealistic mood among the studentship? If you've been to several of schools, how do they compare to each other?
The floor is yours.