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Anonymous wrote:York College of Pennsylvania is small and has engineering majors and an active D3 swim team with nice athletic facilities.

Randolph-Macon in Ashland Virginia started an engineering program in recent years and has become ABET certified. They also have a D3 swim team. My student was not looking at engineering so I don’t details on it, but it is a small private school in Virginia.

Do they only offer "general engineering" degrees or do they offer the usual specific degrees (AeroE, EE, CompE, CivilE, MechE) ?

As several PP have noted, those "general engineering" degrees are largely meaningless to employers.

Your Google broke?

Anonymous wrote:York College of Pennsylvania is small and has engineering majors and an active D3 swim team with nice athletic facilities.

Randolph-Macon in Ashland Virginia started an engineering program in recent years and has become ABET certified. They also have a D3 swim team. My student was not looking at engineering so I don’t details on it, but it is a small private school in Virginia.

Do they only offer "general engineering" degrees or do they offer the usual specific degrees (AeroE, EE, CompE, CivilE, MechE) ?

As several PP have noted, those "general engineering" degrees are largely meaningless to employers.

York College of Pennsylvania is small and has engineering majors and an active D3 swim team with nice athletic facilities.

Randolph-Macon in Ashland Virginia started an engineering program in recent years and has become ABET certified. They also have a D3 swim team. My student was not looking at engineering so I don’t details on it, but it is a small private school in Virginia.

Anonymous wrote:Your College PA
Loyola MD

Think poster means York College PA

Your College PA
Loyola MD

I would look at WPI. We considered it for my son, but wound up not applying because we didn't think the system of classes (fewer at once but more accelerated) would be a great fit for him. But there were many other aspects of the school that we liked.

Anonymous wrote:A lot the suggestions are smaller D1 schools. Clarkson and Union are both D3.

For D1 schools, look at Lafayette, Bucknell and Dayton. I have also been curious about Marquette but I am a little worried about its location in Milwaukee. Seems like there isn't a consensus on whether this is a good or bad thing.

Good most. We crossed Clarkson off due to the weather.

Tufts might be worth looking at - would be a high reach.

Anonymous wrote:Kind of sounded like Clarkson was having financial issues? https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/49014/20231222/clarkson-announces-plan-to-phase-out-majors-in-humanities-communications

I'd struck it from DD's list out of concerns for upheaval and if it's a trend in the wrong direction.

Their finances are stable. They are just adjusting based on demand.

Anonymous wrote:A lot the suggestions are smaller D1 schools. Clarkson and Union are both D3.

For D1 schools, look at Lafayette, Bucknell and Dayton. I have also been curious about Marquette but I am a little worried about its location in Milwaukee. Seems like there isn't a consensus on whether this is a good or bad thing.

My friend who is a private wealth advisor is sending her kid there. He is approximately a sophomore and got a good internship this summer and has a local co-op. She was quite deliberate in helping him to pick out a smaller engineering program that would be supportive and where he could excel. He could also continue his sport there. There are no issues with the location. This family does not live in WI.

Anonymous wrote:Kind of sounded like Clarkson was having financial issues? https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/49014/20231222/clarkson-announces-plan-to-phase-out-majors-in-humanities-communications

I'd struck it from DD's list out of concerns for upheaval and if it's a trend in the wrong direction.

It was just a change in vision. There has been a goal pre-pandemic of diversifying, mostly to bring in more women. That didn't get much traction with applicants and now more women want engineering anyways so the university reverted to its strengths.

I'd never tell anyone to go there to study a liberal arts topic, but it's excellent at engineering, science and business.

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Anonymous wrote:Add msoe to the list

Do they have swimming? They have a lot of other great D3 sports and a solid and small (3000) student body. Milwaukee is a fun city for college students.

PP here: Never mind its new - when we look at MSOE 3 years ago it wasn't part of their athletic program.

Anonymous wrote:Add msoe to the list

Do they have swimming? They have a lot of other great D3 sports and a solid and small (3000) student body. Milwaukee is a fun city for college students.

I would look at engineering schools that don't have phd programs - they tend to be smaller and primarly D3

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-overall&ved=2ahUKEwiR48G7gYmPAxXxF1kFHY7lDtQQFnoECAMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3Y_6hJF_qeAN09zlUMZ8gm

Anonymous wrote:A lot the suggestions are smaller D1 schools. Clarkson and Union are both D3.

For D1 schools, look at Lafayette, Bucknell and Dayton. I have also been curious about Marquette but I am a little worried about its location in Milwaukee. Seems like there isn't a consensus on whether this is a good or bad thing.

Marquette is a great school in the city of Milwaukee. It's an urban school, and like most Jesuit universities, located nearby "the areas of the city that need help the most". It's like most urban universities, you are in a city, there is crime and you need to be smart. Then again, there is crime near/on most universities, not just urban ones, so you need to be smart about where you are.

My kid had a great 4 years there, great job and loved it all.

I am baffled that there are so many suggestions in this thread of large universities. OP said small.