Hello, everyone! I am a senior who just got accepted into WPI, Penn State University Park, and RIT. I am thinking to major in biotechnology. Which one out of three is the best in your opinion?
Thank you for helping,
Le H
In case you have not already seen it, you may want to read this: https://www.wpi.edu/academics/study/biology-biotechnology-bs. Please read the part about career outlook. Relative to most other schools, WPI career outlook reports are very strong.
I have two nieces who went to Case Western and MIT respectively in this subject area. They learned in their Senior year that a PhD was really required to move ahead in the field. They both had very good grades. One went to law school and became a patent lawyer. The second is till working on the employment problem The problem was not the quality of the programs. It was a reflection of the job market AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
Do you want veterinary or medical school? These are other routes to go. and the actual results are reported on the career outlook site.
Still another route is Biomedical Engineering. See BM @ https://www.wpi.edu/academics/study/biomedical-engineering-bs. Please read the part about career outlook for these studies…
I know Penn State and RIT are very fine schools. You might ask them for the Career outlook data in these subject areas. Both Penn State (98,000 students) and RIT (18,000 students) are much, much larger than WPI at 6,642 students. As an alumnus, I like to believe that smaller size alone makes a positive difference for many students. This is an individual choice. WPI’s football games with MIT and RPI are much quainter. They don’t compare with PITT games, but we do play hard against each other. We are happy to face PITT on the academic field.
The better school is the one that fits your personality when you have had a bad day. Where do you go? Who do you talk to? Where are your friends? Did you get involved? None of these schools will limit your academics because of a bad reputation. WPI, by design, has a very different program of studies (see https://www.wpi.edu/academics/undergraduate
What are your other choices for a major?
Not that this makes too much of a difference, but that number includes all of the branch campuses – main campus has ~46,000 students, and each individual branch is much smaller.