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Anonymous wrote:Morgan State has engineering. It is in Baltimore. Towson State has a dual degree program with UMCP. Frostburg state has engineering

St Mary's of Maryland is also a MD state school and you can get a dual major physics and mechanical engineering through the physics department.

Although I absolutely love St. Mary's, I would not send my kid there for engineering. It is too limiting because of it's size and has no engineering school. How about University of Delaware? Anyone know much about their engineering program?

DD got accepted into UD, St. Mary's, Mason, Cuse and a few other OOS privates and publics. She applied to UMBC as a safety, but once accepted and after doing research, she will be attending, majoring in Mechanical Eng'. She will be staying on campus, about forty mins from home...lol. Best bang for the buck.

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Anonymous wrote:Morgan State has engineering. It is in Baltimore. Towson State has a dual degree program with UMCP. Frostburg state has engineering

St Mary's of Maryland is also a MD state school and you can get a dual major physics and mechanical engineering through the physics department.

Although I absolutely love St. Mary's, I would not send my kid there for engineering. It is too limiting because of it's size and has no engineering school. How about University of Delaware? Anyone know much about their engineering program?

Anonymous wrote:Morgan State has engineering. It is in Baltimore. Towson State has a dual degree program with UMCP. Frostburg state has engineering

St Mary's of Maryland is also a MD state school and you can get a dual major physics and mechanical engineering through the physics department.

Anonymous wrote:What's so great about a bunch of mediocre engineering options? Seems to me if you want to be an engineer? You want the best. If you can't go to GT, UMD , Hopkins then you need to go to CC, get good grades and transfer in.

Why would anybody go to James Madison engineering ?

Google does not care where you went to school. They also found grades are not a great predictor of success.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/09/technology/google-people-laszlo-bock/

UMBC is a great option for Maryland students, and there are plenty of kids who don't go home on the weekends. There are lots of clubs and organizations your DS can get involved with, and UMBC grants a lot of scholarships to MD students, sometimes quite generous.

The Towson/UMCP's Dual Degree engineering five year program is also an option, but you'd need to consider the cost of an extra year of school (or more -- they even warn you it may be more) that one would need to pay for vs. a four year program at UMBC.

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Anonymous wrote:What's so great about a bunch of mediocre engineering options? Seems to me if you want to be an engineer? You want the best. If you can't go to GT, UMD , Hopkins then you need to go to CC, get good grades and transfer in.

Why would anybody go to James Madison engineering ?

Because mediocre engineering options beats mediocre english literature options? We can not all be the best.

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I went to a B state univ, and make six figures in IT. A study found that, on average, a STEM grad from a not-so-well regarded school still made more than a non-stem grad from a well known school.

Your kid will be fine at UMBC as a stem grad. I hope mine can do UMBC or UMCP.

We toured UMBC and liked it. It seemed very friendly, lots to do on campus, the dorms and facilities were nice. About 75% of freshmen live on campus, which seems fine to me. Not a commuter college at all. Not as overwhelming as UMCP, but a solid school.

Anonymous wrote:What's so great about a bunch of mediocre engineering options? Seems to me if you want to be an engineer? You want the best. If you can't go to GT, UMD , Hopkins then you need to go to CC, get good grades and transfer in.

Why would anybody go to James Madison engineering ?

Because mediocre engineering options beats mediocre english literature options? We can not all be the best.

Morgan State has engineering. It is in Baltimore. Towson State has a dual degree program with UMCP. Frostburg state has engineering

Anonymous wrote:What's so great about a bunch of mediocre engineering options? Seems to me if you want to be an engineer? You want the best. If you can't go to GT, UMD , Hopkins then you need to go to CC, get good grades and transfer in.

Why would anybody go to James Madison engineering ?

Because a lot of employers, even very good employers, don't care all that much as long as you have an accredited degree.

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Anonymous wrote:UMBC is focused on STEM and has a really good rep. Better than JMU ,Odu or VCU

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I think OP's DC will be fine at UMBC - nothing to sneeze at by any means.

UMBC has the same incoming SATs as VT.

Anonymous wrote:UMBC is focused on STEM and has a really good rep. Better than JMU ,Odu or VCU

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I think OP's DC will be fine at UMBC - nothing to sneeze at by any means.

UMBC is focused on STEM and has a really good rep. Better than JMU ,Odu or VCU

What's so great about a bunch of mediocre engineering options? Seems to me if you want to be an engineer? You want the best. If you can't go to GT, UMD , Hopkins then you need to go to CC, get good grades and transfer in.

Why would anybody go to James Madison engineering ?

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Anonymous wrote:15:19 here. We'll look at out of state schools but cost is a real concern. DS is a good student and will make a great engineer but he's not so top notch that he's going to get merit money anywhere. So it is either UMCP (a stretch), UMBC, or Montgomery College-and then transfer to UMCP. Just wish there were more options. Maryland has such limited affordable choices compared to other states.

Virginia only has Virginia tech. DC has nothing. Md has UMD , UMBC , Hopkins and Annapolis.

Huh? Are you crazy or stupid? Off the top of my head, there's JMU? UVA? VCU? ODU?

And Hopkins is private, so not a state school that OP is looking for. Maryland "has" Annapolis only in terms of geography. And if U. of MD College Park is a stretch for OP's son, there's no way he's getting into either Hopkins or Annapolis.

Yup, so if you are an average engineering student in Maryland and can't get into UMCP, your choice is UMBC, community college, or pay more to go out of state. Sucks.

PP who corrected the "Virginia only has" nonsense. But UMBC isn't the disappointing option you assume. It's a solid choice. I know people who are doing incredibly well from there.

Just to clarify, I didn't mean that UMBC sucks, just that the lack of options sucks. I don't know as much about UMBC as I do about UMCP but it might actually be better for my DS than UMCP in some ways. On the other hand, UMBC doesn't have all the options that UMCP has (I think there is no electrical engineering major, for example).