<p>Why would you attend Brown for engineering? Personally I know I'm going for the Brown prestige, but Brown's engineering program is NOT that strong.</p>
<p>There are many other engineering schools that must be a better fit for your interests overall relative to Brown.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Cornell, Harvey Mudd, etc..</p>
<p>Most people(70+%) at Cornell, Michigan, CMU, UIUC, Georgia Tech who pursue engineering end up in engineering related jobs. i'd suspect that percentage is lower at Brown, and Dartmouth, mainly due to the difference in their mindsets.</p>
<p>From what I have heard Brown is more focused on Liberal Arts.</p>
<p>Little known fact: All of the Ivies have engineering.</p>
<p>But not all of the Ivy's offer all the engineering disciplines, even some of the more traditional ones. Look at the data collegehelp compiled. Only 3 of the Ivy's offer civil engineering, 5 offer mechanical, 5 offer electrical, and 5 offer mechanical.</p>
<p>I know that Brown is not that strong in Engineering...I turned down Berkeley, Cornell, Northwestern, CMU, and UPenn for Brown just because I love Brown...</p>
<p>But now I start to be worried that if I graduate from Brown with Computer Engineering and Applied Mathematics degree, does it make my chance for IEOR Master program at Berkeley/MIT/Princeton/Stanford/Columbia lower?</p>
<p>Please help me...</p>
<p>^ Bah! One step at a time. Don't worry about that. If you love Brown you made the right choice. Your graduate school chances are not hurt at all...if anything, Brown engineering makes for a more unique applicant.</p>
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^ Bah! One step at a time. Don't worry about that. If you love Brown you made the right choice. Your graduate school chances are not hurt at all...if anything, Brown engineering makes for a more unique applicant.
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Oh comon, did you see anyone from Brown in the chemE phd program?
Computer Engineering, nil.</p>
<p>^ No...that's why I said he/she would be a good applicant... get some academic diversity in the grad programs. </p>
<p>Also, plans change frequently...rarely does someone enter frosh year of college intent on getting an engineering PhD and carry that thru...</p>
<p>You only need a PhD in engineering if you're going to become a professor.</p>
<p>The OP will have plenty of opportunities at Brown.</p>
<p>The OP could major in applied math or statistics...IEOR is very statistics oriented...a Brown math degree would be excellent prep for top masters programs in IEOR.</p>
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^ No...that's why I said he/she would be a good applicant... get some academic diversity in the grad programs.
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The grad program doesn't care about academic diversity from super low tier school. Search through your own department, has anyone from Brown ever made it? If they have a kid from Cornell and Brown, they'd take the kid from Cornell. Besides, they have way more applicants vying for an acceptance, Brown just do not cut it otherwise you would see them a lot more in the engineering field.</p>
<p>^ I disagree...look at number of kids majoring in engineering at Brown AND those that pursue engineering graduate school. I believe the numbers would be a small fraction of those from engineering powerhouse schools. Just because I didn't happen to see any Brown grads at Berkeley doesn't mean they don't exist...or don't get into Berkeley caliber engineering grad programs.</p>
<p>IMO, Brown students have a different interest in science/engineering research compared to students at MIT, Stanford, Cornell and Cal. If the OP were wanting to pursue engineering research in EECS, ChemE, or CivilE, maybe Brown would not be a top choice. But IEOR is less science/research driven and more math/statistics driven looking for operational efficiencies...</p>
<p>A Brown degree is far from "super low tier"...</p>
<p>I meant for that particular major. Brown has a very strong student body, but that doesn't mean the Brown engineering department can Fourier Transform them into the typical students that top engineering schools would take a second look at.</p>
<p>Brown isn't anyones top choice for Engineering for those who are serious about getting into graduate school and a career inengineering.</p>
<p>Consider this. Engineering types of far from the typically laid back relaxed open to discussion chill ppl you find at Brown.</p>
<p>Engineering types congregate and are most likely to make friends with each bcause both hold common set of smart nerd type of interests. You will find plenty of that in a Non-Brown school such as CMU, RPI, Georgia Tech, etc...and if you are serious about engineering, you would probably realize that recruiters from top engineering companies probably don't even recruit at Brown or don't really recognize the Brown prestige.</p>
<p>I don't mean to be mean or anything. I personally am boggled that some may think Brown's academic reputation can transcend to another industry and hope for the best when the reality is not that simple....</p>
<p>LOL...whatever...I believe an applied math degree from Brown can get you in the door...especially IEOR programs.</p>
<p>As of now, no one can provide an anecdote, let alone statistic.<br>
So OP, do come back in a year or two and tell us how you fare.</p>
<p>Yes, an applied math degree from Brown is different! haha That is different and your right on that one. Brown has a pretty strong applied math program.</p>
<p>I chose Brown just because visited there 5-6 times and felt in love with the school...</p>
<p>Thank you for all your opinions... I might focus on Applied Mathematics and if I have some free time, I will try to do double concentration in Computer Science/Engineering...</p>
<p>I would love to know is there any other disadvantage for me to apply for IEOR grad school? I won a scholarship from my country and I MUST finish PhD in IEOR... I have to go back and be a professor in my country.... so my interest in IEOR is kind of UNCHANGEABLE...</p>
<p>Please help me...</p>
<p>If PhD in IEOR is your ultimate goal and you want to do it in the top 5 schools in the country, I'd say you're SOL.
If you're willing to go to top 25, you might have a chance, depending on how well you do at Brown.</p>
<p>I wouldn't say he is out of luck at all. Brown is a great school, and it has a good reputation for applied math, which is basically all IEOR PhD is.</p>
<p>Strictly speaking from a research perspective, within the Ivy League, I consider Brown to be in the upper tier of engineering programs, behind Cornell and Princeton. You can certainly do a lot worse.</p>