[vaksel]

i think a large problem with that is that the offshoot campuses are almost always subpar to the original. Sure the degrees will still say Stanford, but the smart people will all go to California...NY Stanford will be their safety school

[noilly]

The proposal mentions that the NYC campus will largely serve graduate students and graduate school programming. Stanford already has a satellite campus in Monterrey, CA for marine biology and oceanography students where students split time between the main and satellite campuses. I expect that the NYC campus will follow the same model (i.e. spend a couple quarters at each campus to fulfill complete course load).

[hugh3]

It's not that tricky, it's a problem easily solved with money.

Step one: "Hey big-name famous professor, want a job at Stanford NY? We'll pay you $big_face_money and you'll get all our fancy new facilities, plus the Stanford name, and whatever the hell else you want." Repeat 200 times.

Step two: The professors attract the grad students.

Step three: The grad students create the ecosystem.

[jmonegro]

I'd assume that getting into StanfordNYU would be just as hard as getting into Stanford in California, so I don't think it would be much of a safety school.

[neilc]

I'm not sure why you'd assume that. CMU's campus in Silicon Valley is very different than the primary CMU campus, for example.