Little schools with engineering?

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Kettering. It is a small private engineering college in Michigan. They do work/study. You get placed in a cool paid internship somewhere (Ford, GM, lots of good options around Michigan). You do a semester of school then a semester of full time work. It is a pretty cool set up

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Union is a great school but it doesn’t offer Civil.

Bucknell and Lafayette do, though.

As does Clarkson, WPI, Case Western, Rochester, etc.

RPI is just over 7K. Same with Lehigh.

Also might want to look at SUNY-ESF. Less then 3K students, and it’s part of Syracuse University (you get a big school and a small school at the same time). Doesn’t offer Civil, but offers Environmental Engineering (subfield of Civil). Also offers Chemical Eng, Bio Eng, and Paper Eng. On top of that, they offer a Construction Management + Science (also a subfield of Civil) degree that allows students to take the FE exam if they take a few extra courses.

[Anonymous]

NP. This is a useful thread as my junior also is interested in engineering but wants a college on the smaller side. He likes the sound of Rochester, Lehigh and Tufts - do any colleges publish the acceptance rates of their school of engineering vs arts & sciences? Wondering if it is harder or perhaps favorable to apply as an engineer to some of these colleges that are not all about tech. Appreciate the thoughts!

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Anonymous wrote:What's your definition of little/small? Case Western is 5150 undergrads

I think he thinks the smaller the better, but 5K could work. He likes the idea of a school where the focus is tech.

Possible U of Rochester, too, then, and Tufts.

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CWRU, Rochester, Tufts, RPI (definately visit as it's not for everyone for many reasons), WPI

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Anonymous wrote:No one has mentioned Lehigh which is insane to me. Is that too big?

OP here, I think it might be. I went to Northwestern, which has great engineering and is not that much bigger, and I think he wants a smaller experience than I had.

I went to Northwestern as well. It is challenging to get much smaller than NU's 8K undergrads (except those with 5-6K students). A school with only 1-2K is hard to find and you really really need to be sure that's what you want. More opportunities IMO at a 5-8K school

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Anonymous wrote:What's your definition of little/small? Case Western is 5150 undergrads

I think he thinks the smaller the better, but 5K could work. He likes the idea of a school where the focus is tech.

Possible U of Rochester, too, then, and Tufts.

Is Tufts mostly tech? I did not realize that.

-- OP

In the freshman class, 1800 were enrolled in arts and science and 1340 in school of engineering. That isn’t “mostly” tech but is much higher than the percentages you will see at most if not all of the LACs people are listing as responses.

There are approximately 1800 freshman total. Less than 300 engineers out of that group. It’s a great school but definitely not a lot of “Tech”. Same w U Rochester.

Agreed. But I think Rochester is more techie because of the strong Premed cohorts.

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ALWAYS look up The Common Data Set and see how many engineers the school actually graduates.

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Anonymous wrote:Union is a great school but it doesn’t offer Civil.

Bucknell and Lafayette do, though.

As does Clarkson, WPI, Case Western, Rochester, etc.

RPI is just over 7K. Same with Lehigh.

Also might want to look at SUNY-ESF. Less then 3K students, and it’s part of Syracuse University (you get a big school and a small school at the same time). Doesn’t offer Civil, but offers Environmental Engineering (subfield of Civil). Also offers Chemical Eng, Bio Eng, and Paper Eng. On top of that, they offer a Construction Management + Science (also a subfield of Civil) degree that allows students to take the FE exam if they take a few extra courses.

Pretty sure Union added civil back — they used to have it and got rid of it for a time.

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Anonymous wrote:For very small, Haverford has a 4+1 masters engineering program with Penn - https://www.haverford.edu/engineering

I would not recommend at 4+1 program if it requires that you have to apply for, qualify for and get into another school to complete the degree. Would your child want to move schools in the final years? Will they get into the final school? In general these programs are for folks undecided about engineering, want a SLAC with the opportunity to explore engineering but the would not be best for students that know they want to do engineering.

[Anonymous]

Mudd was pretty grueling when I was there. Make sure your kid knows how to work hard. Mudd is now test optional but if your SAT math is under 700 you'd be unwise to attend.

[Anonymous]

My engineer wanted a small school near a city and less than 8 hours from DC and applied to the following schools-
Case Western
Swarthmore
CMU
Rochester
Lafayette
Stevens
UMBC

[Anonymous]

Alfred, in upstate NY. Their Ceremics/Glass/Materials program is one of the best in the country.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised no one has mentioned Harvey Mudd yet. 900 undergrads and the school is focused on engineering.

It is not focused on engineering
It is a liberal arts college focused on math and science (and engineering).

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Anonymous wrote:Mudd was pretty grueling when I was there. Make sure your kid knows how to work hard. Mudd is now test optional but if your SAT math is under 700 you'd be unwise to attend.

This. You want your kid to be able to graduate. And I think being test optional at a school like this is crazy.

[Anonymous]

Trinity University in Texas.