Where do engineering students tend to go for grad school in engineering other than OSU? I wish to go to an ivy or highly ranked engineering grad school and was wondering if OSU provides this opportunity with its undergrad education.
Also, can someone convince me to go here instead of UMD Comp Sci?? PLS
Can’t comment on grad admissions directly, but you may be able to find some information here: https://ecs.osu.edu/
Your best bet is to contact the engineering department directly and get them to answer this. But be very clear that you want information on graduate program placement FROM THE LAST FIVE YEARS or so. The economy has changed graduate school placement so much that statistics from before that time are basically meaningless. So if they try to tell you that they had a student go to MIT or Stanford, but then you find out that that student graduated in 1997, then disregard.
Graduate programs don’t really put much stock in the undergraduate institution that you come from. It is more about your academic record (and engineering is pretty tough at a place like OSU) and what you have done to prepare yourself for graduate school (doing research, etc.)
On another note, OSU is an AAU university and is very well regarded. The rankings favor private universities but they are not all that meaningful.
Agree with xraymancs. It’s more about doing the right things while in undergrad, than just where you went, that will get you into a top grad program. The “right things” besides grades and test scores would be getting involved early in research, and presenting (and possibly publishing with an advisor) your findings. As I’m sure you’re aware of, research is absolutely necessary to pursue grad studies (and an eventual academic career) in the sciences. OSU has a great campus-wide undergrad research forum (Denman), as well as program-specific forums. OSU’s college of engineering is well-regarded enough (sure it’s not CMU) to at least give you “name-recognition” when applying for schools, but name should only be secondary to a strong CV.