<p>hi everyone, can give me any ideas about those stronger engineering programs in Columbia? is operations research a good one?</p>
<p>OR is probably the most popular, i'm not sure how good it is compared to more traditional engineering schools.</p>
<p>The two most well-regarded majors at SEAS are Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. Those are very intensive courses of study whose degrees are well respected in their fields.</p>
<p>Also respected are columbia's programs in Civil, Comp E, and OR. I think Earth & Environmental E is doing well, but i don't have too many friends who did that. CS is a decent program, but is small compared to the size of the university and other major engineering schools so as a result isn't prominent on the radar of major tech employers. Just the same, I know several people who ended up at Google and similar firms, but the SEAS CS degree doesn't have the cachet of a Carnegie Mellon or MIT</p>
<p>That's all I got.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot Denzera! What year are you? I am thinking of doing the combined engineering program, so now I am choosing courses for next semester. Again thanks a lot!</p>
<p>Actually I am thinking of OP and Chemical Engineering, but the requirements for these two majors are very different, so I just need more ideas</p>
<p>I graduated last year with a degree in Applied Math.</p>
<p>I loved the APAM department but with 6 professors / 40 undergrads, it's not exactly a national powerhouse.</p>
<p>so you should be very familar with SEAS right? What are you doing right now?</p>
<p>If you look at the engineering USNEWS rankings for graduate engineering programs, I think you can get an idea for which departments are the most recognizable. But SEAS doesn't rank that high for pretty much all of its departments because it's such a small school and not a traditional engineering powerhouse. Also, these graduate rankings don't really bear much on the undergraduate curriculum and experience. Take them with a grain of salt. I think environmental is actually the one with the highest ranking.</p>
<p>Yes i'm fairly familiar with SEAS. I'm in management consulting right now.</p>
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<p>What is this program? Does it allow you to get an engineeirng major as well as a humanities one?</p>
<p>It is with some affiliated liberal arts colleges... you earn a bachelor of arts degree in the liberal arts college and a bachalor of science or engineering in columbia... so i am thinking of doing that program</p>