Insight into STEM admissions

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Anonymous wrote:I really, really wish my son had been willing to consider Materials Engineering. There's a high demand right now, and it's a bit easier to be admitted into. We visited a few engineering schools, and they all had nearly 100% placement for materials engineers.

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Don’t most engineering schools have high placement rates for all engineers?

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t most engineering schools have high placement rates for all engineers?

As in job placement? not anymore, and for many mid schools the jobs they place into are very different then the jobs engineers get coming out of the top privates with engineering and top 5 publics. MIT/Stanford/ivies with E/CMU/Hopkins/caltech/Duke/Northwestern/UCB/GaTech/Michigan/UIUC/Purdue do a lot better as far as type of job placement than those that are a level or two down. Pull up a school's career center and specifically select E school, you can see the % without a job at 6mos as well as the avg starting salary. If you want one above 85k it narrows the list to basically these. If you want a school with ave 100k you'd better stick with the prestige.. MIT, Princeton, Penn, Stanford, Cornell, Harvard, Berkeley Caltech...

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I am 54 and make 120k a year as a Nurse Practitioner. I think any kid coming out of college making in the 60s is remarkable….maybe my expectations are easily achievable.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t most engineering schools have high placement rates for all engineers?

Yes, they do have high placement iverall, but it will vary by major. Civil Engineering maybe has less demand than maybe EE or CompE. AeroE demand sometimes is cyclic - depending on how aviation and space business sectors are doing.

And I disagree with PP who is obsessed with "prestige". My experience as a hiring manager is that ABET is very effective in ensuring that virtually all BS Eng graduates are well educated.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t most engineering schools have high placement rates for all engineers?

Yes, they do have high placement iverall, but it will vary by major. Civil Engineering maybe has less demand than maybe EE or CompE. AeroE demand sometimes is cyclic - depending on how aviation and space business sectors are doing.

And I disagree with PP who is obsessed with "prestige". My experience as a hiring manager is that ABET is very effective in ensuring that virtually all BS Eng graduates are well educated.

I agree that prestige doesn't need to be a focus. It seems that a lot of hiring managers attended large state schools and prefer hiring from those same types of schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Civil and chemical engineering are relative easier admissions. AE (sub of ME) and BioE are more popular. CompE and EE are the most competitive. All sciences are similar.

Has this changed? It used to be that AE was like 3 classes away from an EE degree.