(04-16-2020, 07:22 PM)cardcrimson Wrote: A handful of the professors I had at Stanford were really exemplary. Most were okay. Many were awful. And I graduated with a BSME in a department that was rated the highest in the country at the time. The benefit of a Stanford education lies with the students, not the professors. Distance learning will kill that.
I had some really good professors at Stanford. Maybe 2 or 3 that were awful. One was a visiting professor from Kansas. Many of my profs were world leaders in research in their fields and they were able to make their areas of interest exciting to learn. Sorry your Stanford experience wasn't similar.
On the other hand, I totally agree with the benefit of going to school with really great minds in the student body. I told my daughter that the reason we were willing to pay the money for a top school was the exposure she would have to future leaders in every area of life.
My son's university is unfortunately not providing that. He is benefiting from being on his own. He is benefiting from seeing more of the real world at a large public university. There aren't many Stanford level minds there though. That is why he is trying to transfer.
I don't think Stanford and the Ivies are going to be hurt too much by a loss of foreign students or from students trying to stay closer to home. The allure is too great. Mid-level schools are going to have some issues and low tier schools are going to have survival problems. If the school does not provide a great college experience than parents will figure internet classes are good enough. That will be offered for cheap elsewhere.