Best school to go for engineering.

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<p>I am undecided on what type of engineering. I also am considering business instead of engineering. The schools i've applied to are:
University of Michigan
University of Florida
Purdue University accepted
Miami University accepted
Northwestern University
Loyola University Chicago accepted
University of Cincinnati accepted</p>

<p>I haven't heard from the other 3 yet but have a decent shot at each of them. I'm wondering what the best school for engineering is in terms of best for getting into grad school and best straight out of school.</p>

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<p>If I had to pick three off your list, I'd pick Michigan, Purdue, and Northwestern. I'm familiar, and impressed, with those three engineering programs and the people they turn out, plus a lot of their alumni are classmates of mine at U of I here, which is a top grad school. Guess they must've gotten in! =)</p>

<p>Get lots of other opinions, though, and be sure to visit. A happy student is an effective and successful student, and if you don't like whatever top program you end up at, you're not going to do as well if you're not happy there.</p>

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<p>I agree with the above poster... for engineering, Michigan, Northwestern, and Purdue are much much better than anything else on that list... congrats on getting into Purdue! I had a friend who went to purdue undergrad, and then to Harvard to get a PhD in physics.</p>

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<p>Ajc7788, if you are undecided about field of engineering, Purdue has freshman engineering program and you don't have to decide your freshman year. Their business school is also growing in recognition. Not familar with specifics of others.</p>

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<p>The business program is called Krannert School</p>

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<p>the BEST schools on that list, would probably be either Michigan or Northwestern for the areas you listed, but remember three are other things to take into account than that. I plan on attending UF, even though I could have gotten into much "better" schools, most of the ones on your list, but in my case UMich or NW simply wasn't worth the money that it would have cost me. UF is free for me (natioanl merit), but even if I wasn't tuition is cheap in state and from what I've heard and read the job prospects are just fine comming out of a school like that. I'd rather make 5k a year less comming out than come with 100k in debt personally, and then spend my money on a more prestigious grad school.</p>

<p>Of course that's just me, you may find yourself in a completely different situation, and if money is of no object than I would recommend UMich or NW as both have stellar programs in both business and engineering.</p>

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<p>I was accepted to Purdue's freshman engineering program since I'm not sure what type of engineering I'd like to major in or engineering at all. If planning on going to graduate school for engineering, would you say it's better to major in an engineering field or in something like mathematics or statistics.</p>

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<p>Michigan and Northwestern are the best schools on your list for engineering. I'd say it's better to major in engineering.</p>

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<p>If you know you definately want to do engineering then go to UM or NU. If you are considering business still but leaning towards engineering going to NU. NU has a very good engineering , a little bit below UM imo. But NU has by far a better business program then any of ther schools you listed. Kellog is one of the finest business programs in the country.</p>

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<p>Miezo, I agree that Kellogg is one of the very best Business schools in the nation...but it is not much better than Ross (Michigan's Business school). Kellogg is usually ranked anywhere between #1 and #5 and Michigan is usually ranked anywhere between #2 and #10 in the nation. BUT, and I stress BUT, Kellogg is purely, 100%, a graduate program. Undergrads cannot study at Kellogg. Ross on the other hand,, has an undergraduate program which ranks second only to Wharton. </p>

<p>Overall, I would recommend Michigan first, Northwestern second and Purdue third.</p>

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<p>i would recommend to go to northwestern . michigan has a huge population compared to NU so u will not get as much personal attention and learning experience as u might expect. I agree that Michigan is far better for graduate program but for undergrad NU is better.</p>

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<p>I am not too sure Northwestern Engineers get that much attention. NU, like Michigan, is big time into research. I would say its faculty, like Michigan's faculty, is pretty engrossed in their research and care little for their undergrads. If what the OP wants is attention, he should definitely go for Harvey Mudd or Rose Hulman.</p>

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<p>Alexandre Rose Hulman and Harvey Mudd aren't options so stop bringing them up in every forum. If there is any in-state ones and money matters more than grad school than pick the lesser ones. If money doesn't matter go to Purdue. You haven't gotten into the other ones yet. If you do, then go to UMich, then Purdue, then Northwestern. Again if money doesn't matter.</p>

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<p>IlliniJBravoEcho, I think you are mixing me up with somebody else. I do not mention Harvey Mudd or Rose Hulman all that often. I personally feel that they are limited in many negqative ways and seldom recommend them to students who are interested in Engineering, unless they clearly state they are more interested in faculty contact than course offerings, research, graduate school admissions and job opportunities.</p>

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<p>Illini,</p>

<pre><code>Perhaps you were thinking of me. I highly recommend schools like Rose Hulman and Harvey Mudd.
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IlliniJBravoEcho, I think you are mixing me up with somebody else. I do not mention Harvey Mudd or Rose Hulman all that often. I personally feel that they are limited in many negqative ways and seldom recommend them to students who are interested in Engineering, unless they clearly state they are more interested in faculty contact than course offerings, research, graduate school admissions and job opportunities.

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<p>While I don't want to speak for Rose-Hulman, I would say that Harvey Mudd enjoys one of the highest success rates of getting its students into graduate school. I believe I read somewhere that Harvey Mudd has the highest percentage of any school whose graduates later go to receive doctorates in the physical sciences/engineering - even higher than Caltech or MIT. In fact, while I don't have the numbers on me, I would strongly suspect that a far greater percentage of Mudd graduates go on to receive doctorates than the eng/science majors of such 'major' research schools like Berkeley or Michigan. </p>

<p>In fact, I once wrote some posts about the Caltech CC commencements for PhD's (which you can search for), and I saw that in some years, more people who were getting their newly minted Caltech PhD's did their undergrad at Harvey Mudd than at MIT. Now obviously Mudd is very close to Caltech and so there may be a geographic reason for why Mudders would prefer to go to Caltech, but on the other hand, MIT has a far far bigger undergraduate population than does Mudd (MIT has 4000 undergrads, of which at least 75% of them are eng/science majors, compared to 700 Mudders). </p>

<p>One might argue that perhaps Mudders feel that they have to go to graduate school because they can't get jobs. The data belies that assertion. Harvey Mudd salary data indicates that the average Mudd graduate (from all disciplines) actually make MORE than the salaries of just the engineers from many famous schools like Berkeley. Again, search for my old posts where I discuss this in detail. </p>

<p>So it seems to me that Mudd doesn't have any problems with graduate school admissions or job opportunities. Heck, if anything, it seems that it's many of the major research universities (like Berkeley or Michigan) that need to beef themselves up. It's hard to argue with results. </p>

<p>"Where do Mudders go after graduation?
HMC is extraordinarily successful in preparing students for graduate schools and for meaningful employment. In a typical graduating class, 45% will go directly to graduate or professional schools, many of them the schools with the best reputations (MIT, Caltech, Ivy schools, Stanford, UCs, the top state universities in the land). This is among the highest percentages in the country, if not the highest. The remainder typically finds employment, usually with well-known corporations, before graduation or immediately after. The average starting salaries for Mudd graduates is almost offensively high."</p>

<p><a href="http://www.hmc.edu/admin/admission/faq_life.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.hmc.edu/admin/admission/faq_life.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Look I have no problems with RHI or Harvey Mudd. At ALL. Seriously. But the thing is that they weren't options so they should be left out of the conversation. I am just tired of people with agendas (no matter how well-intentioned they may be) when people come here to be helped. That was just a sentence pointing out the importance of sticking to the question.</p>

<p>Those schools weren't choices so what did bringing them up help? It didn't. Yes they may help students who want more help but who doesn't think they want help. But in the future just try to stick to the topic no matter what (believe me the last 3 who responded aren't even close to being the worst, the worst know who they are) and I think you guys can agree with that.</p>