RPI Ranks Among Nation’s Top Colleges
Published Apr 15, 2006
The Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Rensselaer is dedicated to laboratory research. No academic department offices are housed in the building.
The Troy, N.Y., campus breeds respect for embodying what a college ought to look like.
Mansard roofs top ivy-covered brick buildings on the tree-dotted campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, one of the oldest engineering campuses in the country.
U.S. News & World Report ranks RPI among the Top 50 U.S. colleges of any kind. And despite a $31,000 annual tuition, the magazine scores Rensselaer as the 27th best value among American colleges.
The Princeton Review touches on one reason why, calling Rensselaer “simultaneously the oldest technological school in the country and the most modern school of technology in the U.S. It’s like George Jetson meets Archimedes.”
A case in point: The Center of Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies. The cutting-edge $100 million-plus facility is about the size of two Wal-Mart Supercenters, looks like a brick-skirted greenhouse on steroids, and would fit well into a contemporary think tank campus. But the center has no academic department offices, instead, it’s dedicated to laboratory research. Its mission mirrors the Rensselaer vision for education established in 1824: “the application of science to the common purposes of life.”
Story by Gary Perilloux
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