Engineering school- does it have to be a top 100 school?
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Anonymous
| or can any college university with a decent program be well looked upon to get a job after graduation? Names of these second-tier colleges? Experiential coop colleges? |
Anonymous
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Absolutely does NOT need to be a top 100 school but absolutely DOES need to be ABET accredited https://www.abet.org/accreditation/
If you go to the ABET site you can find a listing of engineering schools. Also, anyone can take the Principles and Practice of Engineering exam to get their professional engineering license. (PE) - that is what many employers look for more than where someone went to school. |
Anonymous
| Agreed that it needs to be ABET accredited. But the placement rates at "lower tier" schools can be phenomenal. Two examples we looked at for our son (and schools my engineer husband has recruited recent grads) include South Dakota School of Mines and Missouri S&T. They have amazing placement rates. Our son is set on Rose-Hulman. Not a tippy top school but wonderful outcomes for engineers. |
Anonymous
| No. Either a top school like MIT or CalTech or any ABET accredited engineering school will be fine. |
Anonymous
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In VA, after VT / UVa, look at CNU, GMU, ODU, and VCU.
In MD, after UMCP. Look at UMBC. WVU is known to offer merit aid (really just a tuition discount) to well qualified OOS engineering applicants. |