Engineering Schools and Lacrosse - Advice

[Anonymous]

What are the best Lacrosse schools that offer engineering? Specifically looking for Aerospace Engineering.

D3, D2, and D3 are fine... I will start with some:

RIT
MIT
UNION
CLARKSON
MICHIGAN
OHIO STATE

[Anonymous]

NJIT has a school of Engineering and a school of Architecture.

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Embry-Riddle, Georgia Tech, Auburn, MIT, Texas A&M, etc.

Some large schools will have a club team, so you can get the college experience, the degree and the sport.

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University of Maryland is one of the best engineering schools in the country that also has a stellar D1 program and a stellar club program.

Also, for undergrad, academic rankings are almost meaningless. The quality of an Ivy league engineering education is not really any different from any other ABET accredited program.

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Stevens Institute in Hoboken. Perennial top 25 D3 with a great engineering program

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MI, Virginia Tech, UVA have excellent engineering schools.

UVA you better be top 100 recruit in your class if you want to play.

Tech you better have an extremely good academic profile to get into their engineering school, it's pretty competitive. They have MCLA D2 and they're pretty good.

VMI has the core disciplines (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical). The easy part is getting into VMI. The hard part is staying. The Lacrosse isn't that great either, but if you want to go to a solid engineering school with a good reputation and a good job market after graduating, it's definitely one to consider.

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Check out NAIA schools. Tons of engineering options and great money available.

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It really depends on the level of competition. Michigan, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Air Force, Naval Academy, West Point. Ohio State, and UVA for D1.The rankings also are dependent on engineering disciplines.

There are really good engineering schools that offer club programs.

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Lehigh has excellent engineering programs.

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Georgia Tech

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RPI was one of the first that came to my mind. Solid team with a great engineering program.

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Notre Dame

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Arizona State University

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Anonymous wrote:It really depends on the level of competition. Michigan, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Air Force, Naval Academy, West Point. Ohio State, and UVA for D1.The rankings also are dependent on engineering disciplines.

There are really good engineering schools that offer club programs.

Do people even read the OP's topic? The OP specifically said Aerospace Engineering - Duke, UVA and Hopkins don't even had departments for that. As an engineering graduate from one of those schools, I wouldn't really recommend any of them for someone that is only thinking about getting a Bach of Science in engineering. Those schools lean more to the theoretical end of the academic spectrum and want their students to work toward a master or Ph.D. over just an undergrad degree.

UM, OSU and the Academies obviously do (though AFA and USNA are head and shoulders better engineering schools than Army). They also lean more toward the practical end of the engineering education for those students that want a BS and go work somewhere right after school.
Most of the best aerospace departments are out west - think Stanford, ASU, Cal Tech etc. or big state schools like Purdue, UT, TAMU, etc. Most of those schools only have club teams. That doesn't mean they aren't good lax programs just they don't play in the NCAAs and you pay club fees to pay rather than just be on the team like for D1, D2, or D3.

You might also want to think about D3 schools that might lean toward the liberal arts but offer 3/2 programs. Those are programs where you attend the school and earn a BA degree in 3 years in the major of the students choice and then get a BS from another school in your engineering field. I have no idea if schools that F&M affiliates with have aerospace programing but here is F&M's info on it. https://www.fandm.edu/ospgd/stem-professions/engineering-professions-advising Other more liberal art D3 schools have similar programs.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It really depends on the level of competition. Michigan, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Air Force, Naval Academy, West Point. Ohio State, and UVA for D1.The rankings also are dependent on engineering disciplines.

There are really good engineering schools that offer club programs.

Do people even read the OP's topic? The OP specifically said Aerospace Engineering - Duke, UVA and Hopkins don't even had departments for that. As an engineering graduate from one of those schools, I wouldn't really recommend any of them for someone that is only thinking about getting a Bach of Science in engineering. Those schools lean more to the theoretical end of the academic spectrum and want their students to work toward a master or Ph.D. over just an undergrad degree.

UM, OSU and the Academies obviously do (though AFA and USNA are head and shoulders better engineering schools than Army). They also lean more toward the practical end of the engineering education for those students that want a BS and go work somewhere right after school.
Most of the best aerospace departments are out west - think Stanford, ASU, Cal Tech etc. or big state schools like Purdue, UT, TAMU, etc. Most of those schools only have club teams. That doesn't mean they aren't good lax programs just they don't play in the NCAAs and you pay club fees to pay rather than just be on the team like for D1, D2, or D3.

You might also want to think about D3 schools that might lean toward the liberal arts but offer 3/2 programs. Those are programs where you attend the school and earn a BA degree in 3 years in the major of the students choice and then get a BS from another school in your engineering field. I have no idea if schools that F&M affiliates with have aerospace programing but here is F&M's info on it. https://www.fandm.edu/ospgd/stem-professions/engineering-professions-advising Other more liberal art D3 schools have similar programs.

Not true, a good family friend's son is a a lacrosse player who attended UVA in Engineering with a focus on aerospace and now secured a great job at Northrup Grumman.