<p>Just curious. How does it stand up to other programs in grad school placement, jobs, etc? I know the rank isn't the best, but it's still a good school. Thanks for any insight.</p>
<p>FWIW, I looked at going to Brown and URI before I transferred.</p>
<p>A few of their programs are good, but it’s not one of the better engineering schools of the Ivies.</p>
<p>Any specific reason you want to go to Brown? I like Rhode Island (lived in Newport for a bit), but I’m wondering why you’d want to go to Brown for engineering.</p>
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<p>If you consider Computer Science as engineering (don’t make a new thread or I will get Boneh3ad to come after you), then Brown has a Top-20 Computer Science program to go along with a Top-5 Applied Math program.</p>
<p>Brown isn’t very highly publicized because they aren’t really putting that much effort into engineering (except the aforementioned CS department). Generally, that means if you are looking to go to graduate school, go somewhere else. However, that doesn’t necessarily stop them from having good undergraduate programs, which are much less dependent on research expenditure.</p>
<p>The one thing I will say is that the companies that likely recruit at Brown will be very different from those who recruit at Michigan, for example. I haven’t looked up the actual list, but I would not be at all surprised if Brown has relatively few purely technical companies recruiting there and a relatively high number of companies recruiting for non-traditional jobs for engineers (finance, for example).</p>
<p>Go to their career services website and see what companies come to their career fairs and see if any of them are what you think you may want to do. That is a pretty good indication of how well the program is respected in industry and where grads typically end up.</p>
<p>The reason I am asking is because I would very much like to apply to Brown ED, and if I got in, I’d want to major in economics/math stuff (similar to certain engineering I guess). But I wanted to see if there were other doors open at Brown that are respected. Because for patent law, for example, you need an engineering background (or science).</p>