<p>judging by many posts on here, engineering schools tend to be very rigorous and competitive among students. when i visited WPI, however, it seemed like they focused more on cooperation and working together rather than just beating each other.
what are some other examples of 'cooperative' engineering schools?</p>
<p>Olin, Rose-Hulman, Harvey Mudd, Colorado School of Mines</p>
<p>Based on what do you think engineering schools tend to be competitive? I don’t think I’ve really seen any post here that imples that. A school can be one that weeds out students but also has a cooperative environment among students.</p>
<p>I don’t know of any competitive schools. I’ve only heard from friends at other schools that people cooperate.</p>
<p>if you want to do co-op (which i gather by the error in your title?) there are no better places to do it than at Northeastern. If you want to go to graduate school, then you should go to Georgia Tech and do co-op there but if you want a high paying job in the Boston area after college, Northeastern is #1 for job placement and every company in Boston knows of Northeastern’s co-op program and the reputation of its students.</p>
<p>A fair number of old-time engineering schools have “weed out” classes in their first year, so that every grade, every curve, every test question can mean the difference between staying or heading home in disgrace or giving up engineering. This does breed a competitive culture. </p>
<p>To find the “lets all get through this, to a successful end, together” school, look at the Freshman to Sophomore attrition rates. And any school that will not share those statistics may have something to hide.</p>
<p>haha oops I didn’t really read your post, just disregard what I said lol</p>
<p>anyways Northeastern is a good school for engineering anyways, the co-op program makes sure that the students are focused on getting work experience not on beating each other up</p>
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If that is the case, then you’ll more likely find cooperative environments in smaller schools, as there’s less of a need (if any) to weed out students. When I was an undergrad at the Cooper Union, everybody pretty much helped each other out. It wasn’t a cut-throat competitive environment.</p>
<p>My daughter goes to Ohio State. She talks about group projects and study groups for classes she is in. It seems that the students in her classes all want to get good grades, but help each other while helping themselves.</p>
<p>I’d say Purdue is both competitive/cooperative. People want to beat the curve, but you can usually find help pretty easily from other students. Things also get more cooperative as you move up. I’m an ME, and there’s some nice camaraderie between ME’s to get through the classes.</p>
<p>Cooperative environment rather than competitive? MIT. People are too busy trying to get through themselves to bother tearing others down, and there’s a lot of emphasis on helping each other out.</p>
<p>Rice is the same way… Entire engineering classes will spontaneously meet outside of lecture and lab in order to try to work through concepts that they don’t understand. It’s really collaborative. Great place to learn engineering.</p>
<p>I’d vote for Northeastern too. Very cooperative, we all meet up in study groups and go through homework,etc… No competitive pressure as such and moreover, the coop program sets each of us apart with regards to our work experiences.</p>
<p>Rose Hulmanis very cooperative…and everyone helps each other. No competive pressure from the students.</p>
<p>Engineering at Cal Poly has a 2.7 GPA average over their courses. I did not feel it was competitive, quite the opposite.</p>
<p>ok thanks for the replies.
i’ll see if i can find the exact quote, but i remember some long post on here talking about majoring in engineering and how, because of the bell-curve grading in most classes, students were in constant cut-throat competition to do better than their peers (so then they could get the passing grades). i guess this might just be an isolated case.</p>