<p>Is this a good list to start for undergraduate?
Rankings</a> - Best Engineering Schools - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report</p>
<p>[Best</a> Undergraduate Engineering Programs - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/spec-doct-engineering]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/spec-doct-engineering)
[Best</a> Undergraduate Engineering Programs - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/spec-engineering]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/spec-engineering)</p>
<p>Lists for undergraduate instead of graduate. Not that there’s much difference.</p>
<p>Do check out the second list though. The schools are less well known, but pretty darn awesome.</p>
<p>If you’re only looking for reach schools. And you definitely should be aware to look outside just these schools (like Case Western). And if you’re not sure what type of engineering you want, or how you want to apply it, it might be better to be at a less-techy school. But maybe not.</p>
<p>I think what your stats are, and what major you’re interested in, and other factors that are important to you matter more than just the top n colleges list.</p>
<p>Computer Science and Engineering are two very different fields. Computer Science is a theoretical branch of mathematics. Engineering is an applied science. Software Engineering is (loosely) an application of Computer Science.</p>
<p>Right now I want to get a master’s degree in software eng.</p>
<p>What are the pros/cons of going to a college that doesn’t have many people pursuing a bachelor’s degree in eng than those that do? Which one is better?</p>
<p>I am not sure you can really break it down based on the number or people pursuing a bachelor’s. If you want to get a master’s degree in software engineering perhaps consider a school that allows you to do a concurrent masters program to save yourself time and money. After that start to look at things like graduation rates, job placement rates and salary divided by cost of living in the area of the school(one good tool to determine cost of living is military BAH). What you need to remember is that some schools will have low grad rates and high job placement and others may have high grad rates and high job placement. If you are looking at similar salary/cost of living then perhaps it is worth a look into why one school drops so many people and the other doesn’t. So the main point I am trying to get across here is that rankings are just a tool you can use to start finding schools but you need to explore more from there based on what it is you want in a school.</p>
<p>I think you need to take the number of people getting that degree into account. If there are too few, you will have classes cancelled and not enough choices.</p>
<p>What I did was got my bachelor’s in computer science and business from a strong liberal arts college. When I graduated, I got a job with a company that had an unusually good tuition reimbursement program and used that to get my master’s for free from a top public. I got my master’s in information science, but software engineering was the other program I seriously considered.</p>
<p>Well what I did was go through the whole list in US News (198 schools) and looked at each school in collegeboard.com:
- Multiplied “First-time degree-seeking freshmen * Percentage of 1st-year asian” and check whether it had at least 100 asian students. This is because I want to have a decent amount of asian in the school.
- I looked at the Middle 50% of First-Year Students SAT & ACT Scores.
- Whether engineer or computer/information sciences was listed in the “Most Popular Majors”
Currently, I have a list of 77 schools.</p>
<p>^ I see some redundancies- highly ranked programs would have a large number of Asians especially those in computer science and information science . . .</p>
<p>just saying</p>