Engineering in Ohio State University Vs University of Texas Austin

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For UA co-op opportunities, your best bet is to ask on the UA site on CC.

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This link will take you to find engineering career fairs information at UT. Two career fairs a year attended by hundreds of employers. My son is a graduating senior with an engineering major got a job offer from one of top ten Fortune 500 companies via the fall career fair 2014.

http://www.engr.utexas.edu/ecac/events

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@sunnydayfun,

Thanks for the info. But I do not see details of companies coming there. However, UT should be doing good only. I need to check Alablama and Ohio perhaps. But having list of companies coming to UT also gives us a idea against which I need to compare to.

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my older son is OOS at UT in computer science, and my younger son is currently weighing OSU vs. a few other Big 10 for business. Both schools are Tier 1 research facilities, great campus athletics, great rec centers, in urban settings but feel self-contained as a campus. Engineering and some other programs at UT (CS, business) are very difficult to impossible to transfer into. I can’t speak for OSU, as my son would attend Fisher. You should really try to convince your son to visit both places, as they do feel different. Warning, though, SXSW is coming to Austin and the flights and hotels are ridiculous during the festival, and this coming weekend is the big open house day at UT where thousands of area residents come to check out the campus which is overrun with middle school/early HS kids. If you move to TX, then the residency would kick in at some point, but if you did not move to TX, there are some pathways to earn in-state waivers. My son was in a program called FRI (Freshman Research Initiative) and kids who stayed with it and became research assistants for 20 hours a week were offered the waiver. We did not want our son to add that to his schedule, but it is an option. We also know friends whose parents bought a condo and now their son is a TX resident, but it is complicated – he is emancipated, he had to earn money, prove that he stayed there for 12 consecutive months. Good luck.

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@nuum83,

Thanks for first hand information. Somebody else also mentioned about 20 hours per week Research Iniitiative, but told it is difficult for their kid to keep up with grades. Should be good competitive env. Do you have any ideas about out of state tuition waivers? In what numbers they are available?

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OP, I sent you a PM.

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@youdon’tsay,

Thanks for your info. I replied you by PM too.

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@midclassdad‌ – the rule in 2012 when my son started at UT was that if an OOS student earned a dept. scholarship equal to $1000 or $1500 that was in competition with in-state students, that a tuition waiver was issued. The number vary by college. We know one girl from Chicago who got one to compete on the UT debate team, and one boy from our school who had need but was in Engineering. I don’t have current rules. The way to find them would be to search the state-level higher ed system because the rules were made by the legislature.

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@nuum83,

Thanks for sharing the info. Regarding searching state-level higher ed system, is there any specific pointer as to where exactly get the info? Looks like it is more stringent now.

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@midclassdad‌

http://www.collegeforalltexans.com/apps/financialaid/tofa2.cfm?ID=435

that is the info I am aware of regarding the competitive scholarship rule, as it was the one that the UT CS department followed to offer waivers, other than the 20 hour work week see below

http://catalog.utexas.edu/general-information/registration-tuition-and-fees/tuition-and-fees/tuition-waivers/

hope that helps

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@nuum83,

I knew about the second link. I was carried away by below Article. Ofcourse, it was not about waiver in cockrell, but gave an overall picture that OOS waiver is reasonable to expect.

https://juliasnoel.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2013/10/17/gaining-in-state-tuition-for-out-of-state-students/

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I have no data on overall university numbers, but it sounds quite high compared to my family’s experience at UT.

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Here is the list of companies that registered for the UT Engineering Spring Career Fair.

https://apps.engr.utexas.edu/ecac/events/expo/Students/browse.cfm

The big major companies ususally come to the Fall Career Fair but I can’t seem to find that list.

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@sunnydayfun,

Impressive list. Thanks

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What was your decision? I am kind of in the same place right now and need some help