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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This country is blessed with many universities. The choice of major is indeed really important. If you are a parent with a child who wants to be an engineer and you don't have a lot of money for college consider yourself lucky. There a lot of engineering schools that are very affordable and if your child starts doing internship after their freshman year and do so until their junior year, they will be very competitive on the job market.

I am an electrical engineer precisely in DSP and I have had interns from a wide range of schools. The Interns from the lower ranked schools were not unqualified at all. [/quote]

This.  ABET sets a high floor for engineering degrees.  As a hiring manager, I do not find a significant difference between most engineering college (MIT, CalTech, Stanford are examples of exceptions), BUT I do find a big difference between students who took the easy upper-level in-major engineering electives and those who took the more rigorous upper-level in-major electives.  Rigor matters to employers because it translates into on-the-job knowledge and skills.

Pick an engineering college that offers the student’s desired degree and is affordable and has a high graduation rate in engineering, then study hard and be sure to take the rigorous upper-level in-major electives during the last 2 years of undergrad.

Also, consider going straight through to get a Masters degree, either at that program or another program.  Many engineers in industry have a masters.  Most programs will pay full-time engineering graduate students as a TA or RA, so it ought to be affordable.
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