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updated July 25, 2009
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Rose-Hulman Among Nation’s Top Colleges in Fiske
Guide
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s rare combination of providing a
challenging technical education in a highly personal and motivational
environment has the college listed in the 2010 Fiske Guide to Colleges,
a leading resource for college-bound students and their parents.
The annual guide, compiled by former The New York Times Education Editor
Edward B. Fiske, features over 330 of the country’s best and most
interesting colleges and universities. It offers a subjective
presentation rather than a statistical one, assessing the strengths and
weaknesses of each institution in terms of academics, social life and
overall quality of life. Student testimonials give first-person accounts
to these areas of the college.
In its two-page Rose-Hulman profile, the guide observes that “Rose
offers an outstanding technical background and bright prospects for
future employment. Students are smart, motivated, and highly
competitive, and love using their computers for work and play.”
Later, the guide states “students committed to careers in engineering or
the sciences will find a top-flight education at this Midwestern
technical school. While Rose ‘doesn’t have that big-school pride’ so
common in this part of the country, students appreciate the feel created
by the small classes and school’s small size.”
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Personal Attention: Patsy Brackin, professor of mechanical
engineering, helps a student team solve a problem in a
freshman-level design course. Such personal attention makes Rose-Hulman
unique in undergraduate engineering education. |
In fact, a junior student told Fiske Guide to College editors: “Our
community atmosphere makes us different than anywhere else. Where else
do you know the Dean of Students by his first name? Or talk to your
professors while you are working out?”
Academic quality was the leading principle taken into account in
compiling this year’s Fiske Guide to College list. A special effort was
made to include engineering and technical schools because of their
recent popularity and career field interest. The guide accepts no
consulting, advertising or other fees from colleges and has no outside
relationship of colleges working on its behalf.
During his 17 years as education editor of The New York Times, Fiske
realized that college-bound students and their families needed better
information on which to base their educational choices. He wrote the
guide to help them.
For more information about the Fiske Guide to Colleges, please visit
http://fiskeguide.com. More information about Rose-Hulman and its
admissions procedures can be found at
www.rose-hulman.edu/admissions/.
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