Engineering Schools Ranked on Return on Investment

College Majors Engineering Majors
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<p>Any school with PhD students will have said PhD students as TAs running lab and discussion sections.</p>

<p>Undergraduate-only or master’s universities may not have TAs around, but may have a considerable number of adjunct / contract faculty.</p>

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<p>KamelAkbar, maybe the Georgia Tech ranking you saw was for the whole university, as opposed to comparing just the engineering schools within the universities.</p>

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<p>Dukehopeful18 - WPI scores 15th on another ROI list, the Payscale one. [College</a> Education Value Rankings - PayScale 2013 College ROI Report](<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/college-education-value-2013]College”>College Education Value Rankings - PayScale 2013 College ROI Report)
<a href=“https://www.wpi.edu/news/20123/2013roi.html[/url]”>https://www.wpi.edu/news/20123/2013roi.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>UCBAlumnus wrote: “GMU’s numbers may look better because it offers mostly higher demand majors, but that does not necessarily mean that a student will get a better ROI at GMU versus another school in the same major.”</p>

<p>I see your point, however it is also likely that GMU can devote more resources to those high demand departments because they are not having to also support departments in chemical and mechanical engineering, etc. The computer science and computer engineering departments at GMU are not having to compete for space/staff/resources with as many other departments within the Engineering School. That may very well translate to a better experience/ more opportunities for the students in those majors.</p>

<p>Sidenote: GMU’s bioengineering program is new so that may be why it hasn’t been accredited by ABET yet.</p>