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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks interested in this should go read the older thread from last winter. I think it was called "engineering degree" or similar. [/quote]
Here you go:

[url=https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/105/1177236.page]Engineering Degree[/url]

It was indeed one of the more lively and informational threads that tended to stay on topic which covered attrition, gender, and difficulty.

I'll repeat what I said in that thread as well as a few others: An engineering degree is hard. Weed-out is a thing. My degree (from the 80s from Big State U) had the same attrition rate as a PP who mentioned one -- a 1-in-3 completion rate [i]for engineering[/i]. Thankfully, most of the others went on to graduate with a degree in something else. I think the rates have gotten a [i]little[/i] better, but not by much (maybe in the 40-50% range, anecdotal and based on friends with kids in or recently completed). Here's a [url=https://ira.asee.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017-Engineering-by-the-Numbers-3.pdf]study from the American Association of Engineering Education[/url] which kind of backs that up (see pg 6 for degree within 4-years).[/quote]

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