<p>I'm looking into engineering schools, and am particularly interested in Aerospace Engineering. I have seen/read a lot about how Boulder has like the 14th best (plus or minus) AE program in the US, which is awesome. My question is about what the job prospects after college coming from Boulder's AE program will be. Will coming from Boulder and not from MIT/Stanford/Caltech limit a new graduate? In other words, as long as a student gets good grades and does good internships, will the same first jobs be available to the Boulder AE graduate as the top 5 school AE graduate?</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know specifically how changing majors in Boulder works? I've read on their website that it is possible to change one's major into an engineering major from a non-engineering major. So if you don't get into the engineering program first, you can get good grades in math/physics/chemistry and switch into engineering. Is this hard to do? Does it often happen, or is it only really possible on paper? Are you almost guaranteed admission to the College of Engineering if you get all A/A- grades in your freshman math/physics/chemistry classes? (of course nothing is a guarantee, but my question is whether or not this actually happens) In such a case, do they take into account only/mostly your grades at Boulder, or those and the grades on your high school transcript?</p>
<p>Thanks for any answers to my questions. I'm sorry if the answers are available online somewhere, I have looked, and just wanted some clarification.</p>
<p>My son is a senior majoring in aerospace engineering at CU. I really have no first hand knowledge of how the job market will be for him when he graduates this May. I do know the aerospace engineering program at CU is highly regarded and many companies will be familiar with it and be hiring from there. If you look online, they are having a Career Fair at CU on Oct. 1, 2, 2013 and if you find that website you will see all of the companies that will be represented at the fair. I have heard that Stanford’s undergraduate program in aerospace is not that good, it is mainly known for its masters program.</p>
<p>My understanding is that as long as you get the grades and take the required courses, it is a done deal. I have talked to students who have done it and it seems to be fairly straight forward process. Once you are in CU-Boulder, they only look at your grades from university courses. High school grades are not considered.</p>
<p>Rousse54 that was a good idea; the career fair listings were a great resource. It looks like a few of the “big” companies visit Boulder such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin which is comforting.</p>
<p>erwinrd thank you SO MUCH for that reply. You basically just told me exactly what I needed to know. I was somewhat stressed out about getting into engineering there, because my freshman/sophomore grades in high school weren’t very good (~3.0GPA), but I’m at around a 3.75 now (at a rigorous private school, and I’m taking 2 AP’s 1 honors) which can still go up but it’s a start. So as long as I can get into Boulder non-engineering and work hard I can later get into the College of Engineering. Awesome.</p>