<p>I was admitted to all three of these schools, and I can't decide which one to commit to. Originally, I was planning to study just BME, but recently I've started leaning towards EE and Business. How would the undergraduate engineering and business programs compare at Duke, NU, and JHU? </p>
<p>Thanks in advance for your input!</p>
<p>Well, none of those schools have undergraduate "business" programs as far as I'm aware. But majoring is something like economics is a popular path many people take who are interested in business. Northwestern and Duke are much better for business than JHU. Fuqua and Kellogg are both tops in the nation and students frequently get jobs with i-banks and prestigious consulting firms and the like. I didn't even know JHU had a business school, but apparently they do: Carey Business School which is not nationally renowned and is more of a continuing education business program for working adults who want to go to school part-time. So, it's clearly in a different league. Duke and Northwestern will probably provide fairly equal opportunities in business, although I might give the edge to Duke on Wall Street, while Northwestern has more grads in Chicago offices. </p>
<p>In engineering, however, it's less clear. All three have very strong programs. Northwestern is typically ranked the highest, but I think that's more a function of the fact that it is much larger - although looking at JHU's offered majors, they actually offer 19 engineering majors (Northwestern offers 13 and Duke offers 5). All have EE and all are strong, but I'd bet more engineering firms recruit at Northwestern, although it's negligible. EVERYBODY at JHU conducts some research, and about 2/3 of the engineering students at Duke conduct research. I'm not sure about Northwestern, but I'm sure it's prevalent. </p>
<p>It really comes down to personal taste. I personally think I'd eliminate JHU based on your interests and choose between Northwestern and Duke. Northwestern's quarter system just annoys me and they don't get out til mid June, which is also annoying for finding summer jobs. Both schools will work you hard and provide good opportunities down the road. Evanston has also gotten a lot nicer in the past 10 years. Both schools will work you relatively hard and have good social scenes. I'm not sure how easy it is to double major in engineering and economics at Northwestern, so that's something you might want to look into. Because I know a lot of people that do it at Duke, and those are the people that firms disproportionately drool over....</p>
<p>Duke and Northwestern do not have undergraduate business programs.</p>
<p>Both are better than JHU for Business.</p>
<p>Between Duke and NU: the advantages goes to Duke on Wall Street and the edge to Northwestern in Chicago offices.</p>
<p>Duke's BME program is tops. Northwestern, overall, has an edge in engineering.</p>
<p>erm - full disclosure - methinks Hopkins BME program is tops wrt published rankings... I think JHU is top of both grad and undergrad; Duke is 5th grad and 2nd undergrad in most recent USNWR docs I can get my hands on without leaving my office.</p>
<p>Then again, ranking isn't everything ;)</p>
@Snap24 what college did you eventually attend and graduate from
He/she attended Duke. Please look at the post history before reviving an old thread.