<p>What's the point of a 2+2 engineering program? Would it be the same to just go to an engineering school and get a degree there instead of transfering to another school in 2 years. </p>
<p>Do you mean two years at a community college, then two years at a four year school? That seems fairly common for those students who may not be able to afford all four years at a four year school (versus the first two at a lower cost community college), or whose high school academic credentials were not sufficient to get them into a desired four year school as a frosh (of course, they need to do better in community college than in high school in order to be able to transfer to the desired four year school).</p>
<p>Or do you mean a 3+2 dual degree program? That seems to be most common as a marketing point by the “3” schools which do not have engineering natively; relatively few students actually make the transfer to the “2” school.</p>
<p>The point of a 3+2 program is that you get a degree at each school is you complete the program. however, as @ucbalumnus points out, students often fail to complete the +2 portion and end up just getting the one degree.</p>
<p>@ucbalumnus when you said that few students actually make the transfer to the “2” school. Do you mean because the school did not accept the transfer or because they don’t want to leave their first school where they have all their friends. Or is it just a variety of reason.</p>
<p>Typically students in 3/2 programs do not complete the transfer for multiple reasons. Financial, academic or sentimental reasons. Search the many, many posts on this matter here on CC.</p>
<p>Likely reasons for not transferring to the “2” school:</p>
<p>Not admitted to the “2” school as a transfer.
Cannot afford the “2” school due to insufficient financial aid.
Don’t want to leave “3” school.
Student initially wanted a small LAC (the “3” school) and does not find a big university (the “2” school) desirable.</p>
<p>In Virginia, the state universities have guaranteed acceptance agreements with the CCs. So if a student does get accepted into the Flagship upon high school graduation they have another opportunity. The guarenteed acceptance differ for each university and each major. Virginia Tech (our Flagship for Engineering) requires CC studnets to have a 3.4 for guarenteed admissions to C of E. Industrial Design does not offer guarentted admissions because they do not accept transfers. </p>