<p>graduate in four years or stay in school longer than four years?</p>
<p>Most of my friends either did it in 4 years, or did it in 5 years with a co-op.</p>
<p>most do it in four years but a significant portion take longer though, so it’s not like you’ll be the only one in your class taking longer to graduate. Some programs are specifically designed for 5 years though at some universities. I cooped and if I hadn’t dropped classes here and “failed” another one there I would have been able to graduate in 4 years. I’ll make it out it 4 1/2 though.</p>
<p>I’m doing my bachelor’s degree in four years and a half. I’ve never failed a class, but I dropped some classes here and there during semesters when I had a packed schedule.</p>
<p>What college are you in at UCSD?</p>
<p>Check American Society of Engineering Education profiles of colleges for a break down of enrollment by year. By comparing the number of 3rd year students to 4/5th year students you can get a sense of the likelihood of needing 5 or more years. Some samples from men in Mechanical Engineering:</p>
<p>School Junior year Senior year</p>
<p>Virginia Tech 223 ; 308 (75 juniors did not graduate w/ their class)
UT 198 ; 264
Drexel 167 ; 152
Clarkson 69 ; 78
WPI 124 ; 128
Northeastern 237; 107
Umaine 21; 15
URI 44 ; 76
Uminn Twin Cities 108; 298
RIT 22 ; 28
UDel 69 ; 56 (Fresh: 88; Soph: 78; Jr: 69; Sr: 56)</p>
<p>Check out the schools that you are interested it. Statistics should always be questioned, but knowing the statistics can help direct you to well informed questions.</p>
<p>statistics change between the types of engineering. More specialized, like chemical, tend to go longer then say, mechanical.</p>
<p>The average for the school of engineering at my U was 4.5 years.</p>
<p>Majority of students at my school, except for co-op and 5 year BS/MS, graduate in 4 years. Of course there are the kids who transfer into engineering at some god awful time, but if you only count the people that started off as engineers, they will be gone in 4 years.</p>
<p>This is at Northwestern btw.</p>
<p>I dont know what the statistics are, but from my experience it is not unusual for engineering students to need an additional semester or two to finish their studies.</p>