<p>Harvard Engineering School is about to be created according to this press release</p>
<p><a href="http://www.deas.harvard.edu/press%5B/url%5D">http://www.deas.harvard.edu/press</a></p>
<p>Can an engineering school, in so close proximity to MIT, be a threat to MIT? Or is MIT so firmly established in the technology world that probably no engineering school will ever stand a chance against MIT?</p>
<p>ohhhhh thats a tough one but MIT I think will stay on top</p>
<p>It may, however, suffer with some cross admits for whom the relatively larger engineering program at MIT was the draw, vs. the "diversity" of programs at Harvard.</p>
<p>LOL!</p>
<p>oh man. I needed that.</p>
<p>MIT engineering is in no danger of being dethroned. That's not necessarily the issue, however. With some, although not all, cross-admits who are interested in engineering, the large program at MIT tips the balance. </p>
<p>An enlarged and more varied engineering program at Harvard - vs the "boutique" program offered currently, may tip the balance the other way for some poyential engineering majors who like the idea of having access to a broader curriculum.</p>
<p>Speaking as a registered P.E. myself, it would take years -- if not generations! -- for Harvard's program to ever establish itself as a top-ranked engineering school, on a par with MIT or even Caltech. It takes a lot more than renaming a "school" and hiring more faculty to make a competitive engineering program. The best and brightest engineering students don't even consider Harvard because there are literally dozens of engineering schools that offer a far superior education in that particular field -- CMU, RPI, Rice, Olin, UC - Berkeley, Cooper Union, Rose-Hulman, Harvey Mudd, Case Western, RIT, GA Tech, etc. etc.</p>
<p>And why did you even mention the geographic proximity between MIT and Harvard? What does that have to do with it?</p>
<p>When was Olin founded, and how many engineering students do they have, Mom?</p>
<p>Byerly: Very recently and not a whole lot.</p>
<p>What's your point? It's still a huge draw in terms of applications for those who are interested in engineering.</p>
<p>Byerly we get your point about Olin. However Harvard is not tuition free.</p>
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<p>Someone appears to be conveniently forgetting that MIT students already have access to the broader curriculum offered at Harvard -- they can cross-register.</p>
<p>Cross registration is useful in some cases, but it lacks the flexibility of being a fulltime Harvard student.</p>
<p>The point is, Ben, a larger and more comprehensive engineering program at Harvard may reduce the significance of MIT's principal trump card in the cross-admit game.</p>
<p>A threat? What do you mean by a threat? If Harvard somehow made a better engineering school, that would be awesome. Not because MIT would be "worse", but because there would be that much more opportunities for people and more important research going on. Plus, this could form some competition between them, that would be cool.</p>
<p>However, Harvard engineering cannot possibly approach MIT's awesomeness :)</p>
<p>Harvard DEAS is already a program much better than MIT engineering.
Harvrd DEAS is a lot more selective than MIT and DEAS people are much more successful than MIT people.</p>
<p>Hwy do you think Bill Gates choose to attend Harvard DEAS instead of MIT ?
No one from MIT is as successful as Bill Gates who went Harvard DEAS...</p>
<p>Hah. Ha ha ha.</p>
<p>etc.</p>
<p>mdx49 -- Bill Gates didn't "choose" DEAS over MIT unless he got into MIT. Do you have any evidence for this? You do not. Enough said.</p>
<p>Hate to repeat a point, but Mr. Gates was concentrating in econ, not any form of engineering. Point void -- Gates did not go to DEAS.</p>
<p>MIT is Engineering and Engineering is MIT, 'Nuff Said.</p>
<p>Yes, it is in fact that simple. </p>
<p>\end{sarcasm}</p>
<p>Rabban is sophistication and sophistication is Rabban.</p>
<p>Bill Gates is not an engineering genius. He bought the mouse from Xerox and learned how to effectively market it and the Windows operating system. MIT has been far more successful in terms of engineering.</p>