<p>Does anybody know anything about the engineering school at Columbia. Is it good? How does it rank overall and in terms of individual specializations?</p>
<p>student quality is actually pretty high. i don't think they have a lot of prestige, the school is fairly small. their strongest is probably BME and Electrical Engin. US news usually ranks it around 25-30 for engineering in general.</p>
<p>I'm also wondering about this. I'm seriously considering going to Columbia SEAS over any of my other choices, because, while I want to major in engineering, I also love humanities. I've heard that for branching off of engineering, many colleges love Columbia SEAS; anyone know if this is true? As of right now, I want to do the 4-1 program majoring in EE and persuasive writing (or as close as I can get to that) or speech.</p>
<p>What's more, I'm not sure what my postsecondary plans are. Either I'll be going for a phd. in engineering and ideally become a college professor, or I'll cross into business and go for an MBA. I figure that either way, a degree in EE from a solid school + developed communication skills would help out. Any thoughts on the matter? Namely, for these sort of career plans, how does Columbia hold up against Stanford, Duke, Rice, Cornell, and Harvey Mudd? (I don't know which ones I'll get into, but optimistically assuming I somehow get into all of them)</p>
<p>I would goto stanford, cornell, rice, duke over columbia SEAS, people that enroll in columbia seas most likely didn't get into stanford, cornell for engineering.</p>
<p>bump</p>
<p>any other thoughts? (not just on my question, but on the initial one - don't want to hijack the thread)</p>
<p>and columbia SEAS is like 40% asian... WOW</p>
<p>I don't know if Columbia has a good ECE department. Most of the people I know from Columbia SEAS went there for CS or BME. I would choose other schools you mentioned over Columbia for ECE. But, if you want to do business afterward, Columbia is a great school. However, if you want to do engineering after college, especially going for Ph.D in ECE, Cornell and Stanford are much better. Just one advice, it is really not necessary to stay in school for an extra year to get two bachelor degrees. If you really like writing, just take more writing courses for electives. Why waste 50K for an extra bachelor degree when you can start working on your master?</p>
<p>"I would goto stanford, cornell, rice, duke over columbia SEAS, people that enroll in columbia seas most likely didn't get into stanford, cornell for engineering."</p>
<p>I would think that Cornell engineering would be easier to get into than Columbia SEAS, though not disputing the fact that the quality of engineering is better at Cornell.</p>