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How did Cmu and Columbia beat out cal tech and mit?

CMU's CS program is one of, if not the best in the country. Consistently ranked #1 or 2 across all kinds of rankings. heck, the school's prestige is built on CS.

Columbia because of NYC and the school is more pre-professional than Caltech for sure. DS knows kids who transferred from Caltech to Columbia because they wanted to... guess what, get rich and do finance. Lots of Columbia engineering students do fintech or go into trading. DE Shaw himself was a CS professor at Columbia at one point. Also many tech companies have regional offices. Can't beat the location.

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How did Cmu and Columbia beat out cal tech and mit?

Probably little more from CalTech and MIT to grad schools.

Also Caltech is tiny and MIT is very pro entrepreneurship/weird carreer paths. Plenty go to walk street or grad school or like to work at Cirque de Soliel for a while before circling back to work normal engineering jobs.

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How did Cmu and Columbia beat out cal tech and mit?

Probably little more from CalTech and MIT to grad schools.

How did Cmu and Columbia beat out cal tech and mit?

and who the heck said USC is a party school for rich kids?

How the heck Northeastern gamed this?

Bribed the employers to hire its students?

Anonymous wrote:Top Feeders to Elite Tech Companies for Engineering (Apple, SpaceX, NASA, etc.): https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-engineering

1. Carnegie Mellon
2. Columbia
3. Caltech
4. MIT
5. Georgia Tech
6. University of Southern California
7. Stanford
8. Olin
9. Harvey Mudd
10. Rice
11. Northeastern
12. Duke
13. Cornell
14. Santa Clara University
15. UPenn
16. Princeton
17. Harvard
18. Rose Hulman
19. Johns Hopkins
20. Cooper Union

By total employed:
USC
GA Tech
CMU
Berkeley
University of Washington
UCSD
UIUC
UCLA
Irvina
Northeastern
Purdue
Michigan
UT Austin

In short, big state schools send LOTS of kids to top employers.

Anonymous wrote:For Engineering plenty of choices ..top are MIT, CalTech and Stanford

+1

THIS.

Top Feeders to Elite Tech Companies for Engineering (Apple, SpaceX, NASA, etc.): https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-engineering

1. Carnegie Mellon
2. Columbia
3. Caltech
4. MIT
5. Georgia Tech
6. University of Southern California
7. Stanford
8. Olin
9. Harvey Mudd
10. Rice
11. Northeastern
12. Duke
13. Cornell
14. Santa Clara University
15. UPenn
16. Princeton
17. Harvard
18. Rose Hulman
19. Johns Hopkins
20. Cooper Union

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Anonymous wrote:DC is a junior looking at engineering schools. I noticed there are many public schools ranked higher than ivy league schools. What makes these public schools ranked higher than private schools? Does Berkeley, Univ of Michigan, Georgia Tech, Perdue and UIUC offer that much better of an engineering education than Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Univ Penn and Cornell?

You don’t even need to go to these bolded schools (nor MIT/CalTech). Most engineers in my company went to “affordable state university” programs. You would definitely get more respect for any of the bolded schools than for the Ivy programs. It’s not worth paying the Ivy premium for engineering.

Agree Ivy programs and top schools aren’t worth the cost. My DH has a PhD is electrical engineering in a very specialized field and owns a company. He is a huge fan of state schools for recruiting engineers because they’re typically better rounded (better soft skills), harder working, and often more creative. The folks he has hired from top schools seemed to have huge entitlement problems or are overly confident and a nightmare on teams. Some of his best hires are people who don’t have engineering or computer science degrees but are familiar with coding because they are extremely creative in development.

Heard the same from a scientist friend at a research facility.

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Anonymous wrote:Been a practicing engineer for the past 10 years. Besides a few from Cornell, I've yet to meet an engineer from another Ivy. The one impressing me most went to Penn State.

Engineering students from Ivy become quants on Wall Street

All of them? No. And quants also come from other schools as well. If you want to do that.

In my engineering class 20% went Quants, 20% patent lawyers, 20% consulting, 20% BigTech, 10% academia, and maybe 10% “engineering” ie aerospace, legacy electronics, automotive, etc.

I am actually surprised that 20% of the engineers in your class went on to law school.

Most engineers from Ivy’s end up going into finance or hedge funds.