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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It can be really helpful to go to an engineering school with a culture of group work and collaboration.  This can be a big school or a small school, but having a good study group makes a huge difference.  Engineering classes are hard and you want to be able to work collaboratively to learn the material.  I taught at UCLA and the[b] engineering students really struggled because they were so dispersed amongst liberal studies majors that they didn't find each other.  It's also hard to be the one studying on a Thursday night when all of your English-major friends are going drinking.[/b]  I'm so sure all schools are so disaggregated, but I really felt bad for those engineering students.  Lots dropped out of the program.

You also want a school with professors who have office hours that are open to students and TAs who speak good English.

I'd look at Clarkson University, RPI and Case Western.
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I went to Va Tech, and I think bolded above was probably true there as well.  And my niece at UMD said the same thing.  But many of the engineering schools are part of a large univ so I'm not sure where else it would be much different except some place like MIT or Cal.  [/quote]

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