<p>Which is better?
1) In terms of graduate school placement
2) In terms of job placement
Thx in advance!</p>
<p>I am asking specifically for ECE. Thx!</p>
<p>Cooper Union is free, no?</p>
<p>Yes it is. It would be easier to pay for grad school if you save $120k on undergrad tuition.</p>
<p>From cooper
1) In terms of graduate school placement
-I don't know any one from my year who didn't get into at least one of their grad school choices
2) In terms of job placement
-I don't know of anyone who hasn't found a job yet</p>
<p>I'm obviously biased but both schools are among the best programs in EE. You need to visit each school and see which one's culture you like better. At Cooper you're going to be very close to your professors. You'll be able to pop into their office anytime you want (this is often encouraged). I'm not sure about CMU but I know a few of my friends at larger research univs have never talked to their profs one-on-one let alone every day. Cooper's not for everyone but not having $120K in debt is nice.</p>
<p>living expense in nyc is pretty high, over 20k/yr</p>
<p>I live in nyc, so I believe I only have to pay for the food and transportation.
I have got the financial aid packages from both schools. I have to pay 10k per year for CMU (assuming the price stays the same every year). And I have to pay 0k for cooper.
I had visited CMU but it didn't impress me that much. That could be due to the weather of Pittsburgh. For cooper, the facilities are wearing out. So......I have no preference to any of them.
Do you guys think the difference between CMU and Cooper worths 10k every year?
evoke1080, what are the typical jobs cooper grads getting? Averagely speaking, what kind of grad schools are they getting in?</p>
<p>Cooper does have a new academic building under construction, which should be completed in mid 2009, so the facilities will be better about halfway through your stay at Cooper. </p>
<p>A significant number of financial companies recruit EE's at Cooper and many people do choose to go down that path.</p>
<p>There's no typical job Cooper graduates get. Some go to work as engineers, some work on wall street as brokers. It really runs the gamut. We have excellent recruiting for such a small school, and since we're in NYC you'll get a lot of emails encouraging you to attend other schools recruiting sessions as well.</p>
<p>As for grad school, This year my friends got into Berkeley, Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, Columbia, Texas, Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins, Stony Brook University, and Princeton. In past years I've also had friends go on to CMU, Cornell and MIT. Most of those were not EEs but I know EEs get into roughly the same places.</p>
<p>Ken's right about the new academic building, the labs will be much better when it opens.</p>
<p>It seems that everyone has some positive feelings towards Cooper. So, is there anything you guys don't like about Cooper?</p>
<p>Well it IS a small school, so you don't have as many course options as you would at a big university. No dorms after freshman year can be a pain at times, especially when you're dealing with NYC real estate brokers. If you decide you don't want to do engineering, you pretty much have to transfer to another school, because you have no other option at Cooper.</p>