Any engineers here? How much does college engineering rank matter for career?

[Anonymous]

How about Villanova?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about Villanova?

Go to your state flagship instead. Penn state, Rutgers, VT, UMD would all be better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Top schools are needed to have the best opportunity for the following:
Tech startup culture, access to funding and faculty resources for getting research early on(maximizes top phD choices), high- tech consultant groups that particularly recruit at ivy/MIT/stanford and the like.
Also, of importance to many high-achieving high schoolers, is the top peer group such schools offer.

Nope
My kids have always worked at tech startups ups plenty do not hire from top schools they don’t pay

PP likely meant having the chance to be the tech start up, as ivytype/well endowed school have prizes and such to get started and better access to seed funding.

[Anonymous]

Top engineering grads (non CS) go to management consulting, fintech, investment banking

[Anonymous]

The ranking doesn't matter much to a hiring person, as does the reputation.

For example, some schools are really tech-heavy. Michigan and MIT had that reputation. Other engineering schools are broader (Stanford, Harvey Mudd) and you won't get folks who will be the best designers but rather that supervisors of the best designers (bc of a more generalized training).

Don't worry about it, if your student likes a school that's 98. There must be something about that's school's approach that's a good fit, and that will be an asset in the future.