<p>If you had to choose between Ohio State University and Virginia Tech, what school would you choose?</p>
<p>Please help. Time is running out!</p>
<p>Both are very good.</p>
<p>gellino- you are wrong about RPI being more highly rgarded than Ga Tech or Purdue.
ipam45- last I knew UNC does not have engineering, you have to go to NC State.
The problem with ranking engineering schools (particularly for undergrad studies) is that just about every flagship U in the country will give you as much engineering knowledge as you can absorb, and there are many, many private schools that will do the same thing. There may be differences in reputation depending on the type of engineering, but there aren't too many places where the students will complain about lack of challenge.</p>
<p>Sportsmama: I don't know a great deal about Ohio State, but the few people I know from there have been good engineers.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I know a number of people frpm Va Tech and I know they have excellent programs there. In addition, the campus is beautiful. The overall student population is much smaller than at OSU also, if that makes a difference to you. If it were me, I'd go to Va Tech (in fact I applied and was accepted there many years ago, didn't attend) but Alexandre is right I think, both are very good! Make your decision based on your personal reactions and observations, where you feel the most comfortable- I don't think you can go wrong.</p>
<p>A lot of my friends go to OSU honors and they sat it is pretty good. If it were VT vs. OSU I'd say either way. But if it's OSU honors vs. VT I'd easily say OSU.</p>
<p>I don't normally say anything like this but if you like a country atmosphere go to VT. If you like the city go to OSU. They are very different in that aspect.</p>
<p>atomicfusion, my daughter was also accepted into the honors program at VT (as well as OSU). Does that make a difference? </p>
<p>I really appreciate anyone sharing any info they have on either program, or similar decisions you or your child had to make between schools. A friend I work with said I should quit worrying because my daughter can't make a bad decsion--both are good schools. I just want her to have a good college experience in addition to receiving a good education.</p>
<p>Doesn't Lehigh have a big time engineering program?</p>
<p>RPI is in the middle of nowwhere...The town looks like an asteroid hit and rocks in the shape of bricks flew up and landed in the form of cubes.</p>
<p>What about a regional breakdown? I say this because those national lists don't seem to have many Southern schools. Gatech and...that's it (Texas isn't in the South).</p>
<p>According to U.S News Rankings</p>
<p>Top undergraduate engineering programs
1.MIT
2.Stanford
3.Berkely
4.Caltech, Illinois</p>
<p>Top graduate engineering programs:
1.MIT
2.Stanford
3.Berkely
4.Gatech
5.Illinois
6Carnegie Mellon University
7.Caltech, USC
9.Michigan
10.Cornell</p>
<p>if ur sure about ur engineering major, cooper union is definitely up there</p>
<p>^^ agreed. Although not very well known or prestigious, Cooper Union is supposed to be one of the best for engineering.</p>
<p>With so many engineering subfields these days, very few schools are master of everything (Stanford/MIT). One needs to dig a little deeper depending on what he/she wants to major in. For example, CMU is great for computer/electrical but when it comes to BME, it's relatively weak and one is better off at UCSD or Case Western. Northwestern is relatively weak in electrical and computer but is top-5 in material sci and management sci.</p>
<p>I like Alexandre's post #11 that he's posted numerous times and is imo quite accurate. </p>
<p>Atomicfusion, as an undergrad at HMC how can you possibly rank all those colleges with regard to "engineering educational experience" when you've never taken a single class (I presume) even for a day at any one of them? Just curious.</p>