<p>Hi! I want to study electrical and electronics engineering and have been accepted to Columbia UPenn and Carnegie Mellon.
I'd like to know which one academically is the best choice out of these 3.
I'm considering Carnegie and Columbia more seriously at the moment.</p>
<p>How good are their engineering programs?
Is an ivy league engineering education better than Carnegie's?</p>
<p>I would like to know what the research opportunities are at these schools and the overall undergrad experience.</p>
<p>Please post your answers as soon as possible, as I have to make a decision in about a week.</p>
<p>hahaha. I checked the ratings like a 1000 times. They seem so close especially Columbia and Carnegie, and Columbia is situated in New York and students seem to have a better social life. But Carnegie is more concentrated in the engineering sciences where as Columbia is more like a liberal arts college. The choice is so close and I need thoughts from people who are currently attending Carnegie or have attended, what were their experiences like? I cross posted this in the Columbia forum page too so my intention here is to hear both sides and make a more solid decision.</p>
<p>If you actually want to do engineering for your career, then come to CMU. It has pretty good research opps and an integrated master program. If you want to do finance related jobs, go to Penn.</p>
<p>I don’t much about Columbia myself but the ECE program here is top-notch and as a result, very rigorous. There are so many research opportunities that you’ll probably find yourself deleting emails from professors asking for a student to do research for them. </p>
<p>I’d say CMU has an amazing undergrad experience. Come here and you’ll be amongst the top student engineers, computer scientists and professors in those fields. </p>
<p>But as a caveat, ECE in general is hard everywhere so when you say you want an academically good school, be wary of the time you have to spend in your craft.</p>
<p>janlin1’s comment was pretty much on point. Your only reasons for not doing CMU should be if you want to go into solely finance/accounting/business. As an engineering major, you’re are going to want to travel up the ranks for your undergrad degree so that you can get better experience and opportunities. Also, CMU has very good contacts with many in the industry.
Columbia is a great school, shoot, I was an ED’er. However, there aren’t many great opportunities for engineers in NYC and turning down a CMU science/engineering degree would be something that you’d regret at some stage. Columbia’s programs are great, but pretty much all of the engineering kids do finance. The same applies to Penn.</p>
I checked the ratings like a 1000 times. They seem so close especially Columbia and Carnegie, and Columbia is situated in New York and students seem to have a better social life. But Carnegie is more concentrated in the engineering sciences where as Columbia is more like a liberal arts college. The choice is so close and I need thoughts from people who are currently attending Carnegie or have attended, what were their experiences like? I cross posted this in the Columbia forum page too so my intention here is to hear both sides and make a more solid decision.</p>