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From Design News:
For many of our readers, this probably won't come as a surprise: Recently released surveys from The Princeton Review show engineering students aren't always pleased with their professors.
Before we tell you the results of the survey, though, let's stop and review a few important points: Engineering curriculums are hard; student grades in engineering tend to be on the low side of the bell-shaped curve; students with low grades are unhappy and tend to blame their professors. We know all this.
Now, let's look at the results of The Princeton Review survey. In a category titled "Professors Get Low Marks," seven of the worst 10 schools had very high percentages of engineering students. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Stevens Institute of Technology, Cal Tech and the New Jersey Institute of Technology were the worst four. Others in the bottom 10 included Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Georgia Tech and Illinois Institute of Technology. The results were part of a multiple-choice survey administered to more than 120,000 college students. In the "Professors Get Low Marks" category, students were asked, "Are your instructors good teachers?"
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