The point jr377 makes is one that resonates with me greatly. Within my own time in undergraduate BME studies at NJIT, there come to mind 3-4 classes (within the biomechanics concentration specifically) that were just repeats of elementary physics or simple applications of concepts repeated constantly from class to class. There are only so many times you can take the same information being repackaged under another course name before you start to wonder the practicality of paying for information that you’ve technically already received. It would truly benefit the students as well as NJIT’s own reputation if they were to include more project/team based classes or in other words, classes that gave useful skills. I understand the need to have more informational classes within the first year or two of an undergraduate degree or during the first semester or so of a masters: it is completely necessary to have a solid foundation to build off of. However, going with the analogy, if you spend all of your time building the foundation with no actual building to show for it, how useful was all that prep work? In other words, having a solid foundation is fine, but doing only preparation and core information skills without practical skills does not set up a student well for industry. As many can attest, the most common thought when going through industry is that what you learned in school did not prepare you for what you are doing within your job. With all that in mind, I think it would be best to have a more even split of informational classes and practical classes, something like 60/40 or 50/50 (skills/informational).