<p>Brown University engineering recently became a school and is now open to master's applications - I have many friends from US and China who are applying since it is a very flexible program with all expertise in many engineering areas.</p>
<p>Is this like a public service announcement?</p>
<p>I’m very happy with my decision so yes, wanted to share for those interested.</p>
<p>"it is a very flexible program with all expertise in many engineering areas. "</p>
<p>You just described nearly every engineering school in the nation. Brown has never been seen as a quality engineering school (except for CS if that counts) so I really don’t see who you are going to fool.</p>
<p>The Brown School of Engineering is actually new, inaugurated three years ago and on a major expansion campaign with new facilities, faculty, and programs. Additionally, Brown benefits from a unique open curriculum which allows flexibility not found elsewhere. Located near major cities but not burdened by them permits students a lifestyle quite unlike most Universities. The smaller size of Brown’s School of Engineering further allows individualized study and opportunity for interdisciplinary research that is unparalleled.</p>
<p>“Has never been seen as a quality engineering school” is an outdated statement indicative of someone who is not properly informed.</p>
<p>And I cannot imagine why there would be an intention to fool anyone. Though I can imagine why a fool would think so.</p>
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<p>You do realize that it takes longer than 3 years to build up a reputation, right? I won’t say the program there is bad because I know little about it, but it is certainly true that it doesn’t have any reputation.</p>
<p>My point is that it is a growing school, and that reputation is not necessarily information about a school’s quality or the education it offers, today.</p>
<p>Graduateprograms.com:</p>
<p>The Top 25 Grad Engineering Schools are listed below:</p>
<p>1 University of Georgia
2 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
3 University of Southern California
4 North Carolina State University
5 Brown University
6 University of Florida
7 The University of Alabama at Birmingham
8 University of Maryland, College Park
9 Arizona State University
10 Southern Methodist University
11 George Mason University
12 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
13 Stanford University
14 Cornell University
15 University of Pennsylvania
16 University of California, Davis
17 Texas A&M University
18 University of Wisconsin-Madison
19 California Institute of Technology
20 Virginia Tech
21 Carnegie Mellon University
22 University of South Florida
23 Northeastern University
24 University of Virginia
25 Worcester Polytechnic Institute</p>
<p>UGA 1
MIT 12</p>
<p>Hmmmm…no. All rankings are skewed, but this one is pretty bad.</p>
<p>Check out USnews. My school which is ranked 4th on your list. Its a great school, but I know I am not at MIT. It’s 29th overall on USnews. Somehow Dook (Duke) is above us, but they do tend to skew toward private schools.</p>
<p>No Illinois, Purdue, Berkeley, Texas, Georgia Tech or Princeton on this top 25 list? This is laughable even by the weak standards of most rankings.</p>
<p>Really though, graduate rankings are kind of useless. Quality varies so much not just by school, but by field, subfield and research area within a subfield that graduate rankings are sort of silly.</p>
<p>“My point is that it is a growing school, and that reputation is not necessarily information about a school’s quality”</p>
<p>FYI…</p>
<p>The employer will care more about how well you know Java, C++, Python, Linux, R, MapReduce, REST, Agile, Oracle, SQL Server and other technologies.</p>
<p>The proven Python guru from Upper Northwest Central Wyoming A&M with a degree in CIS will get hired over the Top-5 school grad with no Python…if that particular employer is looking for a Python developer.</p>
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<p>Provided, of course, that we are talking about someone going into a field that requires extensive programming knowledge, e.g. IT or computer science. I don’t believe the OP specified what course of study he or she was pursuing so that may or may not be relevant. Of course, why am I nitpicking in a thread like this? =)</p>
<p>I know…I should not nitpick either BUT after working so long in the software area (both private sector and defense/top-secret) and you read these postings from “still in school” folks who only use USNWR, Payscale, Google, Facebook and Amazon to verify everything and you cannot help to respond.</p>