<p>UMass Amherst
CU - Boulder
U of Miami
UMDCP
Delaware
UVM
Syracuse
Michigan State University</p>
<p>I have already heard back and gotten into:
Michigan State
UVM
UMass</p>
<p>I know I definitely want to be an engineer, I was thinking either environmental or computer engineer. I was hopeing someone could please rank these engineering programs and tell me how they ranked them. and why did you rank them the way you did? </p>
<p>Hey I am not really familiar with all of those schools engineering programs but I will let you know what I have heard. UMDCP has a very good engineering program. I’m not sure about civil but for computer they are usually ranked in the 15-20 range. I have visited UMD and was pretty impressed. I have heard good things about Delaware from an engineering student I know there, but I do not think it is on the same level academically as UMDCP. I have also heard that the campus is much different from UMD(not better or worse just a different style) but I have not visited Delaware. I hope that helps.</p>
<p>thank you, I have visited both Delaware and Maryland. I liked them both, and I know what you mean by both of them having a very different feel. Maryland is one of my top choices, but it is also a little bit of a reach for me since I am an out of state NJ student. Out of all the schools that I have posted, I believe Maryland would be the best choice for engineering, but if I dont get into maryland, I was wondering what would be the next best couple of choices.</p>
<p>Michigan State gets away with having a HUGE placement services department that allows graduates to get hired even though U-Michigan and even Michigan Tech has better engineering programs. Where U-Michigan grads excel in “books”…Michigan State grads are more likely to “work the system to their benefit” WHEREVER they work.</p>
<p><strong><em>Says the MSU grad with average grades who parlayed that into a graduate engineering program at Wisconsin and parlayed that into I.T. contracting for one the Big-3 government INTEL agencies</em></strong></p>
<p>Thank you!
how did you like the over all experience in the engineering program at Michigan State? Did you feel that the courseload was too much? did you have time to have a descent social life?</p>
<p>Let me say that technically, I was not engineering at Michigan State. I was a Computational Mathematics major which was in the Natural Science College. I did complete my first two years as an EE major. MSU placed Computer Science under the College of Engineering even though Computational Mathematics is basically a merging of a Math major and CS major. Thus, I ended up taking enough Computer Science that was more than a minor and slightly less than the major (no Computer Architecture, no Digital Circuits). I like being about to “pick and choose” my CS courses.</p>
<p>I was able to have a social life but I did throw that 4-year/no summers schedule out of the window. I graduated the summer semester of my 4th year and attended another previous summer term to lessen the load. I wasn’t trying to take 3 Jr/Sr math courses and 2 computer science courses with lab time all in one term. I wanted a social life.</p>
<p>I am glad I stretched my degree over 2 extra terms. Undergrad was the best time of my life.</p>
<p>“Was it alot more expensive to do that? I am from OOS, and even with the money MSU is giving me, its already pretty expensive for OOS students”</p>
<p>It was not more expensive for me while at MSU because when I was at MSU, tuition was charged per credit with no set “12 to 18 credit” rate like many schools have now. Instead of taking an average of 15 credits a semester, I probably did 12 in Fall, 12 in Spring and 6 credits in the summer with the money left over by not taking 15 the previous terms.</p>