Please share your views about the two programs. Strength and weakness of two programs. I heard a lot of positive comments about Pitt program. But the ranking of Pitt program is concerning to me.
Can’t speak to GT. What specialization? Pls look over the thread on engineering strengths - questions from that? I understand rankings give you a proxy for quality and can be reassuring when making an investment, but I looked at other data pts too like research funding, size of faculty, size of kids within concentration, avail of classes, atmosphere, ABET of course and yep, price!
ooh bioE - just noticed that on header - I’m on my phone so missed that. Do look at NIH funding in size by higher ed. Pitt is #6 in nation. I’ll go see where GT is.
GT 22.7mm in 2015 vs Pitt $430mm
Thank you @amandakayak You make a good point Pitt is #5 in NIH funding in 2014, Georgia Tech did not make
the top 50.
I have 1 grad ChemE/bioE minor working as an assoc scientist at Merck, a jr BioE who just got engineering research funding for summer and a bioE frosh - been really happy with ability to get lab work at Pitt - and not menial work either. Both older kids were published while at Pitt.
We are Southerners and have known several students attend GT. DD at Pitt has found Pitt Engineering to be much more collaborative and advising much more supportive than GT experiences relayed to us. Also, if your student is female, check out percentage of female students at Pitt vs. GT. Pitt is a high percentage female school in Engineering. This was a significant factor for our DD.
@SpaceCoastMom Thank you for your response. I heard a lot of good things about Pitt’s Bioengineering program.
I was expecting Pitt in the top 20 for Bioengineering.
Another important thing to consider when you are comparing bioE programs is if there are sub-major concentrations that your student is interested in - Pitt has four concentrations - ranges from a cellular/tissue focus to prosthetic/device focus. I found some schools were very different in that structure. I don’t think the ranking methodology is really strong on undergrad engineering, just a peer rating I think. http://www.engineering.pitt.edu/Departments/Bioengineering/_Content/Programs/Undergraduate/Concentrations/