CCNY, Manhattan College, or NYU-Poly?

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<p>I recently received news from my colleges. NYU-Poly decided to offer me 16k per year as a scholarship; however, I still have 18k to pay out of my pocket. Manhattan College hasn't offered me any scholarship yet and I think it is because I haven't completed my FAFSA. CCNY recently informed that I am eligible for honors classes there. I applied for Grove School of Engineering there. So now my dilemma is that I don't know which college I should go to. My friends have told me that when applying for jobs, the name of the college you go to matters a bit. </p>

<p>Due to my family's low income($17k a year), I might have to go to CCNY because I don't have to pay anything there and Grove School of Engineering program there is pretty decent. However, I really want to go to NYU-Poly/Manhattan College because people have told me that finding jobs upon graduating from these schools in NY is pretty easy. </p>

<p>However, I am also thinking of going to either one of these schools for my Master's if I happen to receive my Bachelor's from CCNY. But does the name of the college you go to matter? What if my grades are very decent/high in CCNY? Does it do me any good? I just want to have a stable and decent job upon graduation. </p>

<p>If you or your friends have gone to any of these schools, can you please provide me some assistance or information? Thank you very very much!</p>

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<p>What is important is ABET accreditation, which CCNY has.</p>

<p>If you have a decent GPA at CCNY, you will more than likely have a job offer at graduation. Save your money for grad school.</p>

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<p>Abet accreditation? It is like a reputation sort of thing?</p>

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<p>[url=&lt;a href=“http://www.abet.org/the_basics.shtml]ABET[/url”&gt;http://www.abet.org/the_basics.shtml]ABET[/url</a>]</p>

<p>*ABET accreditation is assurance that a college or university program meets the quality standards established by the profession for which it prepares its students. …</p>

<p>The quality standards programs must meet to be ABET-accredited are set by the ABET professions themselves. This is made possible by the collaborative efforts of many different professional and technical societies. These societies and their members work together through ABET to develop the standards, and they provide the professionals who evaluate the programs to make sure they meet those standards.*</p>

<p>If you are majoring in an engineering field, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find employment without having graduated from an ABET accredited school.</p>

<p>There is a search page on that website where you can check on the different schools you are looking at to see if they have the accreditation.</p>

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<p>[ABET[/url</a>]</p>

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<p>Basically it ensures that the engineering programs meet a minimum standard required by an employer.</p>

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<p>Ohh…wow thanks a lot! I did not know anything about ABET until you told me about it. I guess I’ll just stay in CCNY, GSOE, and see what happens and go with the flow. By the time I graduate from CCNY with a bachelor’s degree, I’ll probably have enough money to pay for my master’s. I hope. Thank you so much!</p>

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<p>if you cant afford nyu poly then you should definitely go to ccny, nyu poly is not that great.</p>

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<p>Why do you think that NYU-Poly isn’t that good?</p>

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<p>Read MDE’s post on this thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/666017-polytechnic-institute-nyu-anyone-heard-before-5.html#post11889089[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/666017-polytechnic-institute-nyu-anyone-heard-before-5.html#post11889089&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>NYU-Poly is a great school. CCNY is a great school. You can’t go wrong either way.</p>

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<p>Think “return on investment”. If low on money, goto the cheaper school. Even if you don’t get tip-top dollar on your first job, you will have enough money to attend a good grad school (on-campus or online) and/or have your employer pay some/all of grad school.</p>

<p>If you are into rankings, NYU is top 25 in CS and #1 in Applied Math. Other engineering areas cannot be too bad with a #1 Applied Math department hanging around.</p>

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<p>NYU is not NYU-Poly.</p>

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<p>NYU-Poly is not a bad school. The issue is that the quality and reputation of education offered by the school for the tuition they are charging is not as good as it should be. In other words, people have to pay so much more for NYU-Poly but the edge from NYU-Poly over CUNY City College in quality and reputation does not match to this huge tuition premium. It is not worth to pay so much more for such marginal improvement in quality and reputation.</p>

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<p>Look bray93, PolyNYU or CCNY: the answer is very simple-if you can handle tough Engg programs BOTH are S A M E!
iF YOU FEEL THAT YOU NEED A LITTLE PRIVACY AND COMFORT AND EASE, JUST PAY FOR IT- THAT’S ALL THERE IS TO IT. ccny IS NO CHEESECAKE: YOU WILL BE CHALLENGED TO END OF HELL WITH MATHEMATICAL NUANCES OF ENGINEERING! g’LUCK</p>

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<p>tO sHARPtECH: lOOK THERE IS no SUCH THING AS A BAD SCHOOL!
wHAT you think is bad school is a good school for another person. True, overly expensive schools are BAD and therefore if you have to py thru your nose or your parents’, then Poly stinks!</p>

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<p>Haha, old thread is old.</p>

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<p>I know this thread is a bit old, but just to clarify to those who may later stumble upon this: NYU-Poly>>>>CCNY. NYU-Poly has low rankings because of a high drop out rate. The workload is tough. If you’re going into engineering, it will make you a great engineer. Plus, the ranking isn’t even THAT bad. It’s ranked 153 by US news, while CCNY is only regionally ranked. The graduate engineering ranking of NYU-Poly is 66. I see nothing wrong with that. It beats most of the colleges in New York City, not including Cooper Union, Columbia, and NYU, of course.</p>

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<p>@ufiscool</p>

<p>Ur post makes no sense. You send NYU Poly is good for engineering but NYU has it beat. NYU has no engineering school.</p>