<p>How much should the rankings affect your choice of schools? How much better is the number 20 school compared to the number 30 or 40 school… for example.</p>
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<p>Much is talked about in this sub forum on ‘rankings’, or ‘a ranked enginneering program’. There is rarely a reference to which ranking this is applied, but it seems that everyone is pointing to USNR. USNR uses peer assessment as 25 pct of its weight.</p>
<p>I heard somewhere, and I wish I bookmarked it, that companies do not (necessarily?) use USNR for THEIR rankings, but had their own. I’d love to see the rankings that good companies use in their recruitment. anyone?</p>
<p>Well, I think I can add my 2 cents to that one … </p>
<p>Large corporations actually DO have their own rankings, however, it’s not necessarily based exclusively on academics …
Without revealing which company I work for in the Chemical Industry, I can say that yes, our corporate HR dept has relations to several colleges that they ‘usually’ hire from. Quite honestly, I don’t believe that the selection of those colleges was based exclusively on academics, but to a large extent also on ‘local patriotism’: our company has large production sites in TX and LA, so ‘we’ hire from Texas A&M. Another large site is in MI, so we hire from U Mich. But I’m convinced that in the ‘regional’ selection, the traditional rankings (USNews) are used to compare … </p>
<p>Having said that, it is clear that ‘academic rigor’ was one of the key-criteria in the selection of the colleges, but not the only one! Otherwise, we would hire also from Rice (which we don’t, at least not actively!) or MIT, Stanford, etc - probably we wouldn’t get the graduates of those ‘very’ prestigious colleges at a price that fits into our salary structure … LOL</p>
<p>Can someone post the top us news undergraduate top engineering schools that do not provide doctorate rankings for Electrical engineering and Civil Engineering</p>
<p>Someone who bought 2011 full edition, post it up please?</p>
<p>anyone???</p>
<p>Searching the forum is key…</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/981759-us-news-undergrad-engineering-rankings-2011-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/981759-us-news-undergrad-engineering-rankings-2011-a.html</a></p>
<p>Without Doctorate I have no idea.</p>
<p>well I’m looking for undergraduate civil engineering if anybody has it.</p>
<p>Aren’t you in college already? Just out of curiosity, what do you use the rankings for?</p>
<p>^haha I don’t need it, I’m just curious about if my department made the list this year</p>