Brown Engineering?

College Search & Selection
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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.

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Where do you see Columbia and Penn?</p>

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<p>Much more pre-professional and business oriented, as opposed to engineering research.</p>

<p>Princeton sends about 1.6% of grads to engineering PhD programs every year, Cornell 1.4%. Brown is the next highest at 0.8%. Columbia and Penn are 0.6%.</p>

<p>Brown, Penn, and Columbia are pretty much equal, but Brown attracts the more research-oriented students. Certainly all are stronger than Dartmouth or Yale. Harvard is catching up pretty damn quickly.</p>

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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.

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<p>Brown and Dartmouth are last in engineering rankings among ivies. </p>

<p>Cornell is in top 10, Princeton is within 10-15,</p>

<p>Columbia, Penn, Yale, and Harvard all seem to have placed themselves within top 40. Dartmouth and Brown are outside of top 40.</p>

<p>but you said you were talking from a research perspective... so whatever.</p>

<p>ok. now i can see your post... (i had posted this before i saw you posted those % PhD stats)</p>

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<p>bump for more suggestions...
should i ask Berkeley (or Penn or Cornell) for reconsider?</p>

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<p>i don't think that would be necessary. you seriously have nothing to worry about going to Brown Eng career-wise. you will be viewed very favorably by top employers. these institutions we are talking about are top of the tops, and for engineering companies, not that many engineers hold such prestigious degrees. For engineering companies, UIUC and UMich are as prestigious as it gets for most of them.</p>

<p>these are not mgmt consulting companies we are talking about. not every engineers had luxury of going to an ivy-league, or UCB. who cares Brown Eng's ranking is low when we are talking of undergrad education?</p>

<p>but i dunno about grad school prospect. </p>

<p>and definitely take penn out of picture. it doesn't make sense you're turning down Brown Eng for Penn Eng.</p>