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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Other than Ivy schools, why does it matter what 4 year you attend if most people need a graduate degree?

Also, if you don't go to grad school what benefit does a higher ranked college get you? Really curious because I feel like I am missing something?[/quote]

1. Most people don’t need a graduate degree.

2. The Ivy League is not the be all and end all of life. My education at Georgetown SFS was a much better preparation for my career than I would’ve gotten majoring in Government at any Ivy League school except for perhaps Harvard, which does not have the opportunities SFS students get in DC.

There are zero Ivy League schools in the top 9 undergrad engineering programs. Cornell comes in at 10. So if I want the best undergrad engineering, I’m not going to Harvard.

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I don't know...on another thread there is a statistic that 17% of Virginia Tech grads (#13 for engineering) are unemployed 6 months after graduation while only 2% of a specific Ivy league engineering students (they don't say which one) are unemployed after 6 months.

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Mine is at a T10 private uni that has an engineering school and this is the type of comparative stat they brag about, that their engineering undergrad program has only 1-2% unemployed compared to the top 20 publics (VT was not on the list of compared schools--probably too regional). They credit size, professors, research opportunities early, options for funding for undergrads. They also have a lot of start-up support for undergrads. They talk about "whole brain " engineering education with the emphasis on problems solving, interdisciplinary/humanities requirements, writing, and more. The starting salary has had two yrs or more over $110k which they say is around the same as MIT. The top schools they showed were this school, MIT, Penn, Cal Tech, CMU.

To the PP, "top engineering" undergrad "rankings" have nothing to do with difficulty of coursework, peer intelligence, matriculation into top phD programs, and reputation among companies or mid-career salaries. [/quote]

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