<p>I was recently admitted to both these schools for engineering, CIT at Carnegie Mellon and College of Engineering at Cornell. Does anyone have any advice for which of these schools is better for engineering, especially internships and job prospects? I am looking at ECE or MechE</p>
<p>Both are pretty spectacular schools, though the student experience at the two would be considerably different. The only way I’d say the academics really go one way or another is if you’re really into robotics, in which case CMU is probably a better bet.</p>
<p>(This coming from someone that did undergrad at CMU and almost decided to go to Cornell for grad.)</p>
<p>ECE at CMU is much better at CMU than Cornell. </p>
<p>MechE is much better at Cornell than CMU. </p>
<p>If you are unsure, going to Cornell would be safest as getting a degree in either would be well-respected. </p>
<p>I spoke with a CMU interviewer/alumni who stated that ECE is the school’s flagship engineering program and the other ones (including MechE) are much smaller, and with somewhat less resources. They did say that CMU pools resources between the engineering majors, but that anything but ECE is 2nd tier there. However, CMU legitimately places behind Stanford in ECE and you can easily go onto success with a MechE degree from the school.</p>
<p>As RacinReaver said, they are ranked so close in both ECE and ME that ranking should not be a factor. </p>
<p>As a CMU alum, the statement about ME being a “2nd tier” at CMU is false. </p>
<p>I don’t know Cornell, but I doubt you’ll see a big difference in jobs between them, either. I’d choose between those two schools based on cost and social/environmental aspects.</p>
<p>I also disagree about the other engineering departments feeling 2nd tier compared to ECE. My department (Materials) actually brought in more money to the college than any of the others due to the massive number of patents with royalties we had a history of producing. We were also the smallest department in the engineering college. Our facilities were top notch, and there wasn’t ever any feeling we were inferior to ECE (that was saved for the CivEs and business majors ;)).</p>