<p>I wanted to know whether UR engineering, specifically electrical, is any better than that at RIT.</p>
<p>I'm not very sure specifically about EE , but for a majority of engineering majors from Optics to BME to MechEng. UR is far better than RIT..and better than most of the top tier universities for that matter.</p>
<p>If anything, you'd probably get more internship /career oppurtunities through UR due to a higher prestige.</p>
<p>The engineering (except for BME and optics) are about the same, but UR has a much much higher overall prestige...</p>
<p>Hey,</p>
<p>What do you guys think about the low ranking US News gives to U. of Rochester's engineering program. I always thought it was very good, then I saw it ranked quite low.</p>
<p>I want to major in computer engineering, and right now am looking at Cornell as a first choice (applying ED) and University of Washington-Seattle as a second choice. I was interested in RU's 3-2 BS/MS program to snag my master's in 5 years (then possibly go on somewhere to get a doctorate), but I'm unsure after seeing how low it was on the rankings. I was also looking at Syracuse (also ranked very low in Engineering).</p>
<p>I know RU is quite prestigious for math and the sciences, but how would you guys say it ranks for engineering as far as job opportunities and whatnot coming out, and chances of getting into a top-tier engineering grad school? Any engineering majors on this board? I hate to put too much emphasis on a stupid set of rankings.</p>
<p>The US News Rankings are truely a bunch of BS (for departments)...
They way they rank it is by the number of responses received for a department... Let's say school A has a really really really good department and let's say school B has an pretty good department. A survey is sent out to all the colleges and asks which department is better. However if school B gets more responses than school A, school B ranks higher.
Example is that Northwestern's BME department was just created a couple years back and it is not accredited. However it ranks higher than programs that have been around for a while and are accredited.
Also MIT was ranked in a field in which they didn't even have a program!</p>
<p>Wow, never knew that was how the departments were ranked.</p>
<p>So, how is RU's engineering department really, then? I still think Washington-Seattle has a great CompE department based on everything I've seen and the fact that so many big tech companies are in the area (their main CompE building is called the Paul G Allen Building - Microsoft's CEO). I was suspicious as to how RU could be known for great physics programs but not be anywhere near the top in engineering.</p>
<p>Anyone have any stats about the average starting salaries for RU engineers or anything helpful like that? Or what schools RU engineering undergrads get accepted to for graduate work?</p>
<p>Remember the departmental rankings are a bunch of bs... Who said the engineering is not near the top?</p>
<p>Internships/job and career connections/good feeding to graduate schools are things u should look for...UR has that..with the city of Rochester plus massive amounts of connections with top graduate schools/prestige and really nice interships with the companies downtown.</p>