Which Top 50 colleges are weak when it comes to Engineering? And besides the obvious (MiT, Stanford, Cal), strong?
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Anonymous
| I have been surprised to learn that some schools I hear great things have virtually nonexistent or weak engineering programs- BC, Wash U, UNC. Trying to get a sense of other schools in the top 20-50 range. |
Anonymous
| Juilliard. |
Anonymous
| BC isn't weak in engineering. Just stop. This has to a BU or NEU troll. |
Anonymous
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Given its ranking, Yale is incredibly weak in engineering. Most of the major public universities are far better. Harvard too is comparatively weak given its name. Both schools have the resources so not sure what the problem is. I think traditionally Ivy League schools looked down upon engineering. And now they're playing catch up. It's interesting that the best Ivy for engineering - Cornell - is also kind of sort of a public school.
Other notable schools weak in engineering - Chicago and Georgetown. |
Anonymous
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Weak- Most Ivies, UChicago, Georgetown, Emory, Tufts, most if not all SLACS, even with their 3/2 programs
Strong- Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, Georgia Tech, NEU, Johns Hopkins, Rice, Duke, Washington |
Anonymous
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Yale
Harvard Brown UNC UVA BU Notre Dame Wash U Dartmouth NYU U Chicago Vandy Emory Tufts |
Anonymous
All weak |
Anonymous
| The directives “Must go to Ivy League school” and “Must study engineering” are in conflict with each other. My upper class WASPy family were appalled when I chose to study engineering. Very déclassé. |
Anonymous
We toured and BC was frank that they were building out their engineering program (this was 2023). Its first engineering offering was in 2021-2022 incoming class of roughly 25 students. They have one full professor and the chair. It’s not a strong program unless I am entirely missing something |
Anonymous
People stuck in the past still think of college as a finishing school where you study liberal arts, and philosophy and such. |
Anonymous
Harvard has only had a serious engineering program for like two decades. When I went there, they only offered general engineering, which was basically a fluff degree. Now they have proper MechE and EE programs. It takes time to get something like that off the ground. |
Anonymous
I don’t think this list is correct. Some of in this list are still good. https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings |
Anonymous
You’re looking at graduate schools. Also, some are weak relative to their overall rank. |
Anonymous
That link is for grad schools. |
Anonymous
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This is the undergrad engineering list:
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate |