I’m currently a high school student and am interested in engineering. I’m also interested in chemistry and biology. I’m hoping for a prestigious and credible school. What colleges do people recommend for engineering and sciences? What are the best ones that you can think of?
Do you have a PSAT scores and GPA? Any clue what your financial situation will be, as that is a huge driver for many students? Some top schools would be MIT (obviously), CalTech, Harvey Mudd. Some state universities like Michigan, UVA, Berkeley,Purdue. Tech schools like Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, RPI, WPI, Rose-Hulman, Michigan Tech. I am sure others will chime in with a lot more.
This is a wide-open question that invites wide-open responses. We need you to help us narrow down your search so that it requires us to list far fewer than the thousand schools that are good in engineering and science. A little research on your own into the various rankings of undergraduate majors in bio, chem, engineering, etc. will be helpful. Running the algorithms like SuperMatch, found in the column on the left side of this page, can be helpful in getting you to narrow down your searches.
Once you have a list of thirty which you might get into and which suit your desires for particular majors and area of the country and gender ratio et al., you can then run the net price calculators to see which schools your family can afford. You’re not going to any school, no matter how good or poor or badly you want it if you cannot afford it.
Then get back to us for more help.
Best colleges for who? An absolutely stellar (think walking-on-water type excellence) student with an unlimited budget? For a good student that needs merit money to make it nice? A student that LIVES for prestige, or one that wants the best bang for a buck? Prestige can be a sticky wicket when finances come into play.
Your in-state flagship is a good place to start.
Add Texas A&M, even Berkeley, UA, Co School of Mines…CU Boulder…Rice, Purdue even Univ of Minnesota and yes instate flagships as well.
New Mexico Tech is pretty good, I hear.