Top 5 Ridiculously Underrated Colleges in America

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In recent years, I’ve taken note of which colleges I find myself most vociferously encouraging students and parents to research in order to augment their college lists with smart and savvy but below-their-radar options. And over the years, these colleges have changed as the world around us has changed. Yet, while a lot has changed over the years (most popular majors, in demand careers, the economy as a whole, etc.), the three guiding principles of return on investment (ROI), academic and preprofessional fit, and values alignment have informed and will continue to inform my professional practice when recommending colleges to families. Watch this full video to learn about the top five colleges in America that are perpetually and ridiculously underrated by the masses.
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  • @JohnVKaravitis
    @JohnVKaravitis5 ай бұрын

    5. Santa Clara University 4. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 3. Kettering University 2. Stevens Institute of Technology 1. Colorado School of Mines

  • @anthonykent00

    @anthonykent00

    3 ай бұрын

    This list is great, but you need to watch the video or read the article to get the full value. Just saying, as someone who just read the article.

  • @kevinkasp
    @kevinkasp4 ай бұрын

    Well done. I've been a strong proponent of Colorado School of Mines for a very long time.

  • @francestan70
    @francestan705 ай бұрын

    Drexel should be on the list too, co-op program and right next to UPenn.

  • @tasnimislam9277

    @tasnimislam9277

    3 ай бұрын

    The abysmal aid ruins how great it is

  • @akacad
    @akacad5 ай бұрын

    Good list. Might want to fix the audio output as it is quite low.

  • @user-ex2tq1en3s
    @user-ex2tq1en3s5 ай бұрын

    The best two private well-resourced research institutions in California are USC and Santa Clara University? Stanford might have something to say about that.

  • @CollegeMeister

    @CollegeMeister

    5 ай бұрын

    Ha! Thanks for catching that.

  • @Oooooo-xi2mx

    @Oooooo-xi2mx

    3 ай бұрын

    I think Cal Tech also has huge government funding for the JPL research.

  • @jasonrichardson0369
    @jasonrichardson03695 ай бұрын

    The current General Motors CEO Mary Bara is a Kettering alum. Distinguished company.

  • @feilisong24
    @feilisong244 ай бұрын

    My son is accepted by both SIT CS and SCU EE 😂

  • @anita34d
    @anita34d5 ай бұрын

    My son strongly considered Santa Clara University as an option this year. He was hoping to run for their XC and track teams as well. However, after much research, via their website, reading reviews, and checking out vlogs he decided against it. He felt that they were too strongly geared towards social justice. He said that he wants to focus on academic offerings and leave the moral teachings to his choosing.

  • @emox6400

    @emox6400

    3 ай бұрын

    It’s one of the reasons my son chose SCU! We need more ethical leaders and can’t wait for my son to be a business owner who cares about more than just the bottom line!

  • @brianguevara3376

    @brianguevara3376

    3 ай бұрын

    @@emox6400That’s wonderful. There’s a place for everyone.

  • @WishAtElevenEleven

    @WishAtElevenEleven

    3 ай бұрын

    Interesting. I went there and I don’t remember there being anything about social justice at all. I graduated in 2012 though, maybe things have changed since then.

  • @TheWholeDamnShow007

    @TheWholeDamnShow007

    3 ай бұрын

    @@WishAtElevenElevenyeah that was like 20 years ago in the internet world

  • @WishAtElevenEleven

    @WishAtElevenEleven

    3 ай бұрын

    @@TheWholeDamnShow007totally fair, but it’s not that long in the world of how long the university has been around and how fast things change at universities

  • @TheLauren1113
    @TheLauren11135 ай бұрын

    Wish this wasn’t so stem focused. Lots of smart kids aren’t stem kids. 😢 You can major in anything and go to law school for example so I don’t understand the obsession with STEM.

  • @bwc2000

    @bwc2000

    5 ай бұрын

    Stem major teaches you intense analytical skills that can be applied anywhere. Also they can go into any grad school major, not just law if they change their minds. A liberal arts major cannot go into engineering grad. Also in case grad school doesn't work out, they can just get a job with the hands on skills that acquired in stem. I have known so many liberal arts major who end up going back to school for nursing and etc whereas all stem never did except for MBA or law or medical. No offense to liberal majors but that's society.

  • @jaxjaxjax

    @jaxjaxjax

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@bwc2000I teach at a liberal arts school and your generalization is very wrong. We have a very good success rate of our majors going to law school, grad school, and med school, but more importantly, many of them are career-ready and walk into positions on graduation. We have some programs that have 100% job placement rates. Liberal arts, when done correctly, works. Just many schools claim to be liberal arts when really they are not. If a student wants to go into liberal arts, they need to find a school that truly is a liberal arts school.

  • @bwc2000

    @bwc2000

    5 ай бұрын

    @@jaxjaxjax thanks for the insight. Yes they can go into law med or MBA if that is what they intend to do because, those advanced degree will accept any undergraduate major. But it will be extremely hard for liberal arts majors to go into engineering or math or technical graduate schools if they suddenly desire to do so since they do not have the foundation of stem to build upon which takes years. So that's what I'm talking about in terms of limiting their options. If you are in stem, you can go into almost any grad field. I'm talking about statistically too and i know some liberal arts major who went on to be successful with an undergrad...but a caveat is that they are mostly graduated from top tier or ivy league schools as they recruit by IB and consulting firms.

  • @harrychu650
    @harrychu6505 ай бұрын

    Statistically, 4 out of 10 college freshman do not return for their sophomore year. They fail out, get weeded out or just hate it. Just go to community college and apply to a four year for your sophomore year when Universities are looking to fill the class gaps left by the students who dropped out or failed out. 😮 Here is what no one wants to tell the young people, Freshmen year usually sucks and 9 out of 10 students won't be friends with their roommate. 😂 This is best path especially if your student has no major or career path in mind.

  • @billwood5540

    @billwood5540

    5 ай бұрын

    My family moved coast to coast in the middle of the college application process, making college selection impossible. Anyway, I had good but not great SAT, and I goofed around too much in HS giving me a 3.5 gpa, so wasn't going to get into top engineering schools. I went to a highly accredited JC for a year, took 10 classes, got 10 A's, and was accepted to every top engineering school I applied to for my sophomore year. I always figured it was not simply because of the A's I got at the JC, it was more about demonstrating I was a motivated and committed college student... AND they had a bunch of openings from drop outs.

  • @feliciadewanaga5354

    @feliciadewanaga5354

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@billwood5540 Which JC did you go to?

  • @WishAtElevenEleven

    @WishAtElevenEleven

    3 ай бұрын

    Wow, that’s crazy! That’s definitely not how it was at Santa Clara university where I went. Something like 75% of freshman graduate in 4 years and then a small percentage more graduate in 5 years. I didn’t know a single person who didn’t graduate.

  • @harrychu650

    @harrychu650

    3 ай бұрын

    @@WishAtElevenEleven in aggregate, approximately 60% of freshman return for sophomore year. Individual universities can have higher or lower first year retention rate. At Santa Clara, did you also find that the vast majority of Freshman became close friends with their roommates also?

  • @WishAtElevenEleven

    @WishAtElevenEleven

    3 ай бұрын

    @@harrychu650out of the people I knew, no. But I’m not the best person to ask. I had very few friends.

  • @marciewebster2490
    @marciewebster24905 ай бұрын

    uhhhh Stanford??

  • @howled0

    @howled0

    5 ай бұрын

    Stanford is NOT underrated 💀

  • @gheller2261

    @gheller2261

    4 ай бұрын

    Did you not read the tagline or listen to the video?

  • @gheller2261
    @gheller22614 ай бұрын

    4 of 5 schools are engineering schools for students who may not he able to get into the most selective engineering schools. Not very helpful to 95% of students applying to college. We need to cool it with this STEM obsession.

  • @kevinkasp

    @kevinkasp

    4 ай бұрын

    I strongly disagree. We need to increase our "obsession" with STEM. It's not an obsession in the first place. The world and our society has a huge deficit in the number of qualified STEM graduates. We need to decrease the number of humanities and social science majors by 90%.

  • @gmh471

    @gmh471

    4 ай бұрын

    @@kevinkasp You're right. We just need a bunch of scientific robots. Why should anyone learn how to think, write, communicate, and have socials skills? Why should anyone think that art has any value? My mistake.

  • @kevinkasp

    @kevinkasp

    4 ай бұрын

    @@gmh471 It’s ridiculous to think that engineers, scientists, software developers, and statisticians don’t know how to think or communicate, or that the creations invented by engineers aren’t just as, if not more creative than 99% of what “artists” create. And it’s silly to imply that even more than a tiny percentage of graduates in majors such as gender studies or criminal justice or sociology actually know how to think critically or logically, or possess even half the thinking abilities of engineering graduates. Most of them are just plain stupid, and forty years ago wouldn’t have even been able to get into college. I know professional artists - painters and musicians. They actually believe the world owes it to them to pay them to “create” their “visions.” Such rubbish. EVERYONE has their own artistic or intellectual ideas they wish they could pursue full time. Tell me, was there not great art or writing or music 400 years ago or 300 or 200 years ago when nobody went to college to become a writer, poet, musician, sculptor, or painter?

  • @kevinkasp

    @kevinkasp

    4 ай бұрын

    @@gmh471 Indeed your mistake. Think about the smartest 40 kids in your high school graduating class. Do you not see the contradiction in believing that although they are highly intelligent and smart enough to master intellectually difficult fields they somehow don’t know how to “think,” and are also not smart enough to learn to communicate? And simultaneously the kids graduating in the bottom third of your class are the ones to lead the way with their superior thinking and communication abilities? And tell me, how is it the greatest composers, painters, sculptors, poets and writers never went to college?

  • @gmh471

    @gmh471

    4 ай бұрын

    @@kevinkasp Oh for crying out loud. Take a pill why don't ya.

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