<p>Hi, I'm looking forward to going to a decent institute of technology, possibly MIT. However, my grades aren't that great, nor is my financial situation. I am not so worried about the finances, as if I can go to a good school, like MIT, it will lead me to a good job, and I won't have an issue with paying for it ;)</p>
<p>What are the best alternatives to MIT?</p>
<p>caltech(as competitive as mit if not more) or cmu.....and possibly georgetech</p>
<p>California, Massachusetts, Georgia, Carnegie Mellon.</p>
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I am not so worried about the finances, as if I can go to a good school, like MIT, it will lead me to a good job, and I won't have an issue with paying for it
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<p>Don't count on it. Look at MIT's starting salary for graduates:
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation05.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation05.pdf</a></p>
<p>Compare that to the national salary for engineering
<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/15/pf/college/starting_salaries/%5B/url%5D">http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/15/pf/college/starting_salaries/</a></p>
<p>Not a big difference, and certainly not financially worthy of the 200k price tag over 4 years.</p>
<p>Caltech and MIT are more or less in a class by themselves. Then Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon. Then Virginia Tech, RPI.</p>
<p>Rochester is supposed to be good as well.</p>
<p>Then after RPI and Virginia Tech there is Case Western. After Case Western there are Drexel, Northeastern, Michigan Tech, and Colorado School of Mines. After Colorado School of Mines there are Illinois Inst of Tech, Worcester Polytech, and Rochester Inst of Tech.</p>
<p>Virginia Tech, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Rensalaer Polytechnic Institute, Oregon State University, Clemson University</p>
<p>This might be a silly question, but is there a list of the top Technical universities? If there isn't, can somebody make one?</p>
<p>Honestly, I wouldn't mind going to Rochester, as it's in my state.</p>
<p>And as for the starting salary, thats still more than either of my parents are making!</p>
<p>Any suggestions for <em>cheap</em> schools?</p>
<p>If your grades aren't that great, why are you thinking about MIT, CalTech, Berkeley,GTech,CMU, etc.? I hate to say it, but if you want to study in a technical area, you aren't going to get into these schools without stellar grades.....</p>
<p>I would look at the second and third tier of these and know that those are great schools too and if you do well at them you can go anywhere for grad school. Rochester, for instance, would be a great choice.</p>
<p>yes there is a top 20 technical universities ranking... none of them are cheap. They are all top tier(it's worldwide ranking). CMC is on it however.
Rochester, Vtech, Gtech, Rensalaer, IIT, Drexel etc. are all good ones too.</p>
<p>Maybe Rice? Great school, lower cost than some of the others (#4 value among privates...average debt @ graduation is 13k). What do you want to study? Maybe North Carolina State if you're interested in engineering. It's less competitive than some of the other schools.</p>
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<p>Cal Tech
Georgia Tech
Olin College
Coopers Union
Harvey Mudd
University of Michigan
Case Western
Carnegie Mellon
Rose Hulman Institute of Technology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rochester
Harvard
Stanford
Cornell
Penn
Berkeley
UIUC
Purdue</p>
<p>And internationally, IIT takes the cake.</p>
<p>Here are the schools with at least 20% of their bachelors degrees in computer science, information technology, engineering, or engineering technologies. Harvey Mudd was excluded but has a high percent engineering grads. IPEDS 2006</p>
<p>Institution Name, percent tech</p>
<p>Colorado School of Mines 83.3%
Polytechnic University 80.5%
New Jersey Institute of Technology 79.5%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 78.8%
University of Missouri-Rolla 78.5%
Michigan Technological University 72.2%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 71.4%
Stevens Institute of Technology 71.2%
Southern Polytechnic State University 68.9%
Illinois Institute of Technology 68.0%
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 66.2%
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 64.1%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 51.2%
SUNY Maritime College 50.0%
Clarkson University 49.3%
Florida Institute of Technology 41.8%
Case Western Reserve University 40.2%
California Institute of Technology 40.1%
Carnegie Mellon University 36.0%
University of Wisconsin-Platteville 33.5%
Lehigh University 32.8%
Rochester Institute of Technology 32.5%
SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica-Rome 32.5%
Drexel University 32.2%
Purdue University-Main Campus 32.0%
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach 30.7%
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo 29.4%
New York Institute of Technology-Manhattan Campus 28.0%
University of Alabama in Huntsville 27.6%
North Carolina A & T State University 26.6%
University of Massachusetts-Lowell 26.6%
University of Maryland-Baltimore County 26.3%
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg 25.4%
North Carolina State University at Raleigh 25.0%
University of Phoenix-Oregon Campus 24.3%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 23.9%
University of Michigan-Dearborn 23.3%
Stanford University 21.8%
Columbia University in the City of New York 21.6%
Vanderbilt University 21.5%
Rice University 20.8%
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona 20.7%
Purdue University-Calumet Campus 20.7%
Iowa State University 20.1%
Cornell University 20.1%
Ferris State University 20.0%</p>
<p>Anybody know what NYIT is like? reputationwise? I live in NY nd in the area, so it'd be perfect.</p>
<p>NYIT is a joke please don't go there it's a waste of an education.</p>