<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I basically wanted to know if the 'big name' schools like Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Yale, Columbia, UChicago and Harvard are any good for engineering.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>they have engineering programs. but if you're serious about engineering there are a lot of specifically engineering schools that are probably better.</p>
<p>Depends what you want to do with your degree. If you want to stay in engineering and only engineering with or without going to grad school, others <em>may</em> be a better choice. Then again if you go to a school like Rose Hulman you might not get as "full" an education like you would at Tufts or some of the ones you mentioned with a core curriculum. Of course you can't lump Northwestern''s Engi with some of the others, they aren't all the same.</p>
<p>Of the schools you named, Northwestern, Columbia, and Duke are good for engineering.</p>
<p>UChicago doesn't have engineering.</p>
<p>Northwestern is probably the best of those you listed; however, some notable exceptions from your list were Princeton and Cornell, both with very good programs.</p>