Reply to Which Top 50 colleges are weak when it comes to Engineering? And besides the obvious (MiT, Stanford, Cal), strong?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Which Top 50 colleges are weak when it comes to Engineering? And besides the obvious (MiT, Stanford, Cal), strong? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some good engineering schools that I haven't seen mentioned here (and I've only skimmed the thread, so I've probably missed some of them) are Colorado School of Mines, RPI, Rose-Hulman, Embry-Riddle, Carnegie Mellon, Harvey Mudd, Olin, Northeastern, and Georgia Tech.

Engineering is more of a meritocracy than some other fields. You don't have to go to a top school to be a top engineer. You need a good engineering brain, a knack for your field, and a strong interest.

[/quote]

The point of the thread is the opposite…weak engineering programs.[/quote]

Yeah except that, as has been mentioned on this board many many times, if you want to be an engineer (as opposed to majoring in engineering with the hope of investment banking or law school or something), then the "big name school" issue just isn't the same as in many other fields.  As long as it's an ABET accredited program (Stanford not withstanding....) there are plenty of good engineering schools with excellent job prospects.
I went to Purdue.  My first job out of college (ages ago) I shared a cubicle with a kid from Cal Poly - SLO, Notre Dame, and MIT.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics