<p>I understand generally Engineering undergraduate students are offered choice of Engineering Major after completion of 2nd semester based on the performance of student in 1st and 2nd semester.
My concern is if any college decides on Engineering Major at the admission to 1st semester itself and then allows the student to continue with chosen Engineering Major from day 1 of admission till completion of Engineering Undergraduate course of 4 years.
I would be interested in California Int. of Tech (Pasadena), Georgia Inst. of Tech; Carnegie Mellon Univ. (Ann Arbor), Purdue Univ. (Indiana) among others.
Please advise the colleges I should focus.</p>
<p>Purdue doesn’t allow that. You have to first go through the fye program which takes 2 semesters. Then, depending on your gpa you may get admitted into you chosen college of engineering. For some majors, like biomed, seats are very limited, so it is less likely that you will get in.</p>
<p>However, if you do well (higher than a 3.2 in fye courses) you’ll be fine. I came in wanting to do civil, and I’m studying civil now.</p>
<p>That said, many, if not most schools still admit you directly to yor choice of major as a freshman. You could always limit yourself to those schools.</p>
<p>Small point – Carnegie Mellon Univ (Pittsburgh) University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)</p>
<p>boneh3ad - Thanks for the response. I am trying to identify such schools from internet. However, being International student and not familiar much with schools in US.
Can you please identify few you can remeber.</p>
<p>PeterW - Thanks for the correction.
Any information on the query will be highly appreciated.</p>
<p>Seirsly - Your response and information provided is highly appreciated. Any similar information on other colleges in your knowledge would be appreciated.</p>
<p>At Michigan and I believe most universities (I don’t know about all the universities on the list, some may be different) you enter the engineering school as a freshman and you declare whenever you meet the declaration requirements. So you can pick a major and plan to stick with it, that’s up to you. Or if you change your mind, you can do that too. You have to have at least a 2.0 to declare any major, and there were a couple majors where it was higher (I think just MechE was 2.8 and BME was 3.2 but you can look that up). </p>
<p>I think that’s what you were asking for but if not, please clarify your question. </p>
<p>Take a look at this website; <a href=“http://www.abet.org”>www.abet.org</a></p>
<p>The education section will direct you to the websites of every ABET approved engineering department in the USA (and Canada too, I think).</p>
<p>For example, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has you apply directly to your major of interest (e.g. mechanical engineering). Also Texas A&M University, the University of Texas, and Georgia Tech are the same way I am pretty sure. There are plenty more. You just have to look around on the internet and maybe call a school or two.</p>
<p>At GTech you may decide upfront as a Freshman what you are going to major in and stick to that throughout. Or , you may change based on your interest/performance in the course of time.</p>
<p>My D1 may join GTech this coming Fall. She is undecided whether to do ChemE with the Biotech or the Standard option at this time.</p>
<p>i012575</p>
<p>My question is,</p>
<p>At the time of admission to 1st year of Undergraduate Engineering course of 4 years duration, can a student select Engineering Major and continue with it till completion of 4 year course.</p>
<p>My above response is for Vladenschlutte instead of i012575.</p>
<p>Then I think I answered your question. I don’t know of any school that will block you from that. </p>
<p>IF the student keeps up grades and makes satisfactory progress towards the chosen engineering major, most Us would allow the student to continue toward getting that engineering degree, provided the student has the funds to do so. Funding for international students is often limited to non-existent, especially from state schools like Michigan and Indiana. </p>
<p>Some schools do block you from that. Oregon State for example will let you declare engineering, but not which type. At Washington you can’t even declare engineering. Rather, you compete for an engineering spot after your freshman year. I recommended my son avoid any school that didn’t start freshman year in engineering.</p>