<p>what if graduate from FSU in civil engineering and go to a "higher tier" grad school? will i look better?</p>
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what if graduate from FSU in civil engineering and go to a "higher tier" grad school? will i look better?
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Of course that helps, but the point being made is that a higher tier school won't help you as much in engineering as it would in another field.</p>
<p>Would Maryland (Out of State) and Rutgers (In State) be considered 'low-tier'?</p>
<p>Those are fine colleges for engineering. You need to make sure that the colleges you decide on attending are ABET accredited and have well structured programs.</p>
<p>Also, you can try to look to see what kind of relations exist between the campus and companies.</p>
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Those are fine colleges for engineering. You need to make sure that the colleges you decide on attending are ABET accredited and have well structured programs.</p>
<p>Also, you can try to look to see what kind of relations exist between the campus and companies.
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<p>Ok thanks.</p>
<p>What mean by relations? Like recruiting and stuff?</p>
<p>Yes. One way you check to see what types of companies come to campus is to go on the website and look at past career fairs.</p>
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Is Florida State University a low tier engineering school?
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<p>Considering that there are literally hundreds and hundreds of engineering programs out there, many of which few of us have never even heard of, I would not consider any of those above schools to be low-tier programs. </p>
<p>Examples of low-tier engineering schools would be something like University of Wisconsin- Stout (no, not the University of Wisconsin Madison, but University of Wisconsin Stout), or Colorado State University - Pueblo (again, not the flagship Colorado State University at Fort Collins, but the one at Pueblo), or perhaps until recently, Cleveland State University, which until just a few years ago was open admissions. {Hence, maybe Cleveland State will move up.} </p>
<p>But again, I don't know why you guys are so concerned about going to a low-tier engineering program anyway. As I said before, those who go to such programs are getting a fantastic deal. They don't have to work as hard and they don't have to be as talented as those students who attend the top programs, yet they're probably going to end up with a salary that is almost as high - and in some cases actually higher. </p>
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You need to make sure that the colleges you decide on attending are ABET accredited
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<p>I don't know that you really need that. That depends strongly on the field of engineering you're talking about, for ABET accreditation hardly matters in some fields. </p>
<p>As a case in point, UCBerkeley's Bioengineering program is not accredited. Stanford's Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) program is not accredited. Yet I don't think anybody disputes that these are top-ranked programs just because they're not accredited. In fact, I believe Stanford's MSE program is ranked #1 in the latest USNews. The truth is, accreditation is not particularly meaningful in disciplines like that.</p>
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I don't know that you really need that. That depends strongly on the field of engineering you're talking about, for ABET accreditation hardly matters in some fields.
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In the traditional engineering disciplines (EE, ME, ChemE, Civil), if the school doesn't have ABET accreditation, you have to ask why. It matters a lot less if the school is of the caliber of Berkeley or Stanford, but if it's a school that most people haven't heard of, it helps. It says that it meets the same standards as all the other ABET accredited schools. </p>
<p>undefined mentioned in another thread that his EE internship asked specifically for an ABET accredited school, so apparently it matters in fields other than civil as well.</p>
<p>Is it a good idea to study engineering at liberal arts college like Trinity (ct) ,lafayette college etc?? Does it have some good/bad side?</p>
<p>Hey what happened dudes??? Did i ask sth wrong??? Com'n anyone ?? I am all ears.......</p>
<p>Yes, you did do something wrong. Don't go off topic with your own question in another discussion.</p>