Everybody we know at NCSU is a STEM major and I’m wondering if it feels like a general university or a tech school with some other stuff on the side.
Thanks
60 percent of NCSU is non-STEM majors per a table I saw in the US News.
Generally a college will have Tech in its name if it is 60 percent or more STEM majors. Georgia Tech is an example. An exception is Virginia Tech.
Correction, NCSU is 48 percent STEM. Still a majority is non-STEM.
I think doing liberal arts and other non-STEM at a university a large percentange of STEM majors could lead to a higher paying job than at a college with small percentage of STEM majors.
Probably won’t feel like an outsider.
I say this as a Dad that has two kids there - (1) engineering and (2) college arts and sciences. Son (2) lives on campus and definitely does not feel out of place. I’m sure the reality of the numbers orangecrush mentioned have a fair amount to do with it. The other factor is that the college of engineering is largely on Centennial campus. That puts a significant part of the student body in a group you may never meet. The balance of what is left on main campus is probably more in character/distribution other NC schools such as UNC, ECU, or UNCW.
Don’t worry about it. Soon all the engineerings will move to their own campus(Centennial) and you won’t have to see or hear from them.
@WolfMaster - that will be a relief since I was an engineering student and the last thing she wants is to be surrounded by guys like her dad! (I was an engineering major 1 one entire semester)