Civil/Transportation Engineering

Graduate School
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<p>What master's programs would you recommend for a student interested in transportation engineering: railroads, mass transit, highways? (S is currently an engineering major, concentrating in civil engineering, at Swarthmore.)</p>

<p>Also, do most applicants take the GRE only once?</p>

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<p>Berkeley
MIT
UT-Austin
Northwestern
U of Washington
U of Toronto</p>

<p>Also, do most applicants take the GRE only once?
depends,
Your son will be in the safety zone if he gets
800 on the math part
550 and up on the verbal section
and a minimum of 4.5 on essay</p>

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<p>Thank you Calwood. That was very helpful. We are on the East Coast so he has been focusing on Eastern schools, so he hadn't thought about Berkeley, Texas, or UWash. He met with his adviser at Swat today, and he gave him some more ideas. Apparently there are quite a few subfields WITHIN transportation engineering and it's helpful to know which one(s) are of most interest. He likes railroads, airport design, highways, subways--pretty much everything. Do you know anything about the University of Illinois--Urbana/Champaign program?</p>

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<p>Hello</p>

<p>I think UIUC is a great place to study grad-level Transportation Engineering.
But my son did not apply to UIUC.
I asked him once why UIUC was not on his lists.
His answer was that, he would eventually pursuit PhD in the Transportation Engineering program. He preferred universities located in big cities such as Boston or San Francisco .
He found out that Berkeley, MIT, Northwestern Transportation Research Centers has a variety of research subjects covered within the broad range of fields of transportation.</p>

<p>He picks those mentioned universities for two primary reasons: the reputation and research credentials of the Civil Engineering faculty and the prime location of the university in a metropolitan city. For instance; Boston is an exciting urban center with a developed urban network of trains and buses – a perfect location to study existing transportation engineering projects and learn about design methods used in the city.</p>

<p>Here are some of the useful links.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.its.berkeley.edu/research/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.its.berkeley.edu/research/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://mit.edu/its/research.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://mit.edu/its/research.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.ict.uiuc.edu/ATREL.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ict.uiuc.edu/ATREL.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/trans1/main.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/trans1/main.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>