<p>If he is going to go into an engineering program he is only going to see 20-25% women in his classes. Yes, it does influence student life. I loved UMR (now [Missouri</a> University of Science and Technology](<a href=“http://www.MST.edu%5DMissouri”>http://www.MST.edu) ) 5,000-7,000 students (It goes up when the economy goes down.) Almost all engineering and sciences students. Offers MS and PhD degrees. Strong co-op program. Strong Greek system. Campus wide celebration of St. Pat’s timed prefectly at the end of winter! The campus kinda spreads into the town. It also offers many niche areas of engineering. I had classes as large as 150 and as small as 6. I only remember 2 TA’s the entire time I was there. They keep the math classes small which is really important. The physics classes were large, but their labs were small. They have the largest job fair every Fall and tons of on campus interviewing. I also have great respect for Georgia Tech and Colorado School of Mines. And then of course there are MIT and CalTech.</p>