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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Top engineering firms only really actively recruit grads from the Top engineering schools.   Not that other grads won’t eventually end up somewhere.  They will just have a different path to get there.  [/quote]

This. Prestige matters for engineering at the top levels. There are about 15 ivy/privates and 5 publics that are far above the rest[/quote]

Agree it matters for the top levels…but for regular engineering jobs that require just a bachelors, it does not matter a lot. However, smart and ambitious students target the top, just as they do in law or medicine. Also, peers matter and rigor of coursework. Our public magnet stem high school does dual enrollment with a 4 yr regional university that has engineering and is listed as T75. The courses are completely different than the corresponding courses at his ivy. The ivy syllabus covers the regional college semester in the first 6 weeks. The regional had multiple choice tests and rote plug and chug psets that were easy for the top high school kids. The transcript of the average graduate engineer at the regional has the ABET minimums. At the end of 4 yrs in engineering at ivy(or hopkins or stanford or MIT), they have done much higher levels.[b] Our family member is a professor at an elite school and advised our engineer to pick ivy/top private or one of the top 4 publics for engineering.[/b] He sees a difference in grad (MS and phD) students from less rigorous undergrad engineering programs. He has some industry funding and notes that companies look at transcripts for specific upper level courses not just ABET. Ymmv. [/quote]

Good advice.[/quote]

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