<p>Does anyone know what percentage of entering declared engineering majors actually graduate from Cal Poly? Also does anyone know what the average GPA they graduate with is? It would be even better if you could break it down by the individual disciplines.</p>
<p>I dont think they release information that detailed, however there is a poll listing student's salaries by major (<a href="http://www.careerservices.calpoly.edu/Students/CareerPlanning/gsr.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.careerservices.calpoly.edu/Students/CareerPlanning/gsr.htm</a>)</p>
<p>and another site listing graduation rate, 4 year (21.3%), 6 year (68.9%); site= <a href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/colleges/pubcollege.php?sortby=INRANK04&orderby=flip&states%5B%5D=CA&myschool%5B%5D=none&outputby=table%5B/url%5D">http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/colleges/pubcollege.php?sortby=INRANK04&orderby=flip&states%5B%5D=CA&myschool%5B%5D=none&outputby=table</a></p>
<p>I believe the students actually making it to graduation is around 80% ?? I forgot the website; I know its less than the UCs though.<br>
either way, I wouldnt use past statistics & numbers as a predictor for anyone's success....... Im sure we'll all do great so long as we try</p>
<p>Engineering as a whole doesn't seem to successfully graduate as many students. Those who do graduate have lower average GPA's due to the difficulty of the major. I was really impressed when I toured Cal Poly. I think their learn by doing motto seems like it would be beneficial especially for engineers. I was hoping to see some stats that prove that to be true.</p>
<p>I was in the College of Science and Math when I was at SLO, and our dean told me once that the avg GPA for the College is 2.7 and the avg GPA for the University is 2.8. This indicates pretty severe grade deflation, as the avg gpa of my brother's east coast private was a 3.4! I'd think the engineering gpa is around 2.7 or slightly lower.</p>
<p>We have an old joke here about engineering students:</p>
<pre><code>lim (Engineering) = College of Business
</code></pre>
<p>gpa -> 0</p>
<p>If you wanna know how many freshmen entering as engineering majors actually graduate as engineering majors, just check the freshmen profile <a href="http://www.ess.calpoly.edu/_admiss/Pdf/Profile06.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.ess.calpoly.edu/_admiss/Pdf/Profile06.pdf</a> and compare it with the graduate status report <a href="http://www.careerservices.calpoly.edu/Students/CareerPlanning/gsr.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.careerservices.calpoly.edu/Students/CareerPlanning/gsr.htm</a></p>
<p>Ouch it looks like only slightly more than 1/2 of the students in engineering actually graduate in that major. How hard is it to transfer into business out of the engineering dept? Do a lot of students who don't survive the engineering dept. drop out of Cal Poly or does the school make an effort to help them into another major?</p>
<p>Lots of engineering transfer into other majors.</p>
<p>
[quote]
We have an old joke here about engineering students:</p>
<p>lim (Engineering) = College of Business
gpa -> 0
[/quote]
hahah</p>
<p>I'd actually like to know about the transfreing majors thing, too. I love cal poly but Im also considering UCI simply because it seems much more flexible
right now i'm pretty torn</p>
<p>I talked to an admissions counselor at CPSLO yesterday and she made it seem like if you were admitted to into Engineering, Business, or Architecture, it's fairly easy to switch majors as those three are the most difficult majors to get into.</p>
<p>Business into Engineering, practically impossible.
Engineering into anything else (except Arch/CLA/CMS), relatively easy.</p>
<p>If all fails, just become a business major. Kidding, sorta.</p>