<p>Can you guys think of any good Engineering schools (that conduct Research as well) that focus on Undergrads?</p>
<p>The only ones I came with are Princeton and Rice.</p>
<p>(Do you guys mind doing a list?)</p>
<p>Ex. 1. Princeton
2. Rice
etc</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Rose-Hulman, Harvey Mudd, Lafayette, Lehigh, Swarthmore. With grad programs, but still more oriented to undergrad: Stevens, WPI, Renssalaer.</p>
<p>Ok I probably should modify the question to include research as well!</p>
<p>Cornell places an emphasis on undergrad education in engineering. Their policy is to focus on undergrads and I think the Cornell program is about 70% undergrad. I'll check this out and get back to you. I think the undergrad/grad ratio is just about optimal in engineering.</p>
<p>I'm currently an undergrad engineer at Cornell... I think it's actually a requirement to have at least one semester of research experience in order to graduate.</p>
<p>I've also noticed that finding a faculty mentor is fairly easy as long as you take the initiative and make yourself known, show your interest, etc. etc.</p>
<p>Other than Cornell's engineering though, I can't really say too much about other schools' engineering research.</p>
<p>Stanford. MIT too most likely (can't talk abt it thu...)</p>
<p>Yes yes Stanford has a lot of Grads but Stanford really does take care of their undergrads. Research opportunities are available and with the system Stanford has in place Undergrads can even do there own research and graduate 'with honors' because of it!</p>
<p>Really...Stanford? I looked at their ChemE website and it says that their primary mission is to educate PhDs!</p>
<p>NORTHWESTERN. If a renovative first-year curriculum isn't a good indication of having undergrad focus, I don't know what is. I don't know if there's any other research U that has put so much effort and energy (lots of headache in the process) into designing a first-year curriculum like this.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/undergraduate/prospective/efirst/%5B/url%5D">http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/undergraduate/prospective/efirst/</a>
<a href="http://www.idea.northwestern.edu/edc/%5B/url%5D">http://www.idea.northwestern.edu/edc/</a></p>
<p>My feeling as an undergrad at MIT was that MIT just focused on students in general -- there weren't any opportunities that were unavailable to me that were available to the grad students, and everybody showed the undergrads a great deal of respect.</p>
<p>Cos it's harder to get into MIT as undergrad. ;)</p>
<p>Well, yeah. :)</p>
<p>A decent number of MIT grad students are pretty intimidated by the undergrads. (And the ones who aren't are probably the ones who went to MIT as undergrads anyway.)</p>
<p>^ouch..</p>
<p>you are saying there are no confident smart people elsewhere? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>The percent of engineering degrees at Cornell that are bachelors degrees is actually about 57% which is still pretty high compared to other engineering powerhouses. There is an undergraduate focus at Cornell and that is the official policy of the university. There are opportunities for undergrads to design their own research project and get it funded by Cornell.</p>
<p>Here is a list of schools with engineering sorted by the percent of engineering degrees that are bachelors degrees. I don't think 100% bachelors is a good thing necessarily. With engineering, it is very important to have excellent, state of the art facilities and equipment and to have research opportunities and cutting edge faculty. Strong graduate programs encourage these things. </p>
<p>On the other hand, too many grad students will distract faculty from their undergraduate advising and teaching. There is an optimum percent undergrad in the case of engineering. What is the optimum? I think 50-80%...just a gut feeling.</p>
<p>school, number of bachelors in engineering, percent of total engineering degrees that are bachelors (as opposed to masters and PhD and MSEng).</p>
<p>Lafayette College 122 100.0%
Virginia Military Institute 69 100.0%
Harvey Mudd College 68 100.0%
Miami University-Oxford 49 100.0%
Smith College 33 100.0%
Swarthmore College 22 100.0%
Saint Louis University-Main Campus 76 96.2%
Bucknell University 138 92.6%
University of Georgia 30 83.3%
Michigan State University 531 82.5%
Brigham Young University 488 81.9%
Baylor University 41 80.4%
Iowa State University 862 77.4%
University of California-Riverside 139 76.0%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 401 75.2%
Vanderbilt University 292 74.3%
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Main Campus 1249 74.2%
Rutgers University-New Brunswick/Piscataway 509 74.1%
University of Miami 159 74.0%
University of California-San Diego 762 73.4%
Auburn University Main Campus 509 73.1%
University of California-Davis 573 72.9%
Tulane University of Louisiana 81 72.3%
University of Missouri-Columbia 305 71.9%
Marquette University 162 69.5%
Lehigh University 292 69.4%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 550 69.2%
University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus 370 69.2%
University of California-Irvine 447 69.0%
University of Washington-Seattle Campus 637 68.8%
Tufts University 198 68.5%
Ohio State University-Main Campus 769 67.9%
University of Iowa 220 66.9%
Rice University 147 65.6%
University of Denver 21 65.6%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1020 65.4%
Purdue University-Main Campus 1228 65.3%
Brown University 63 64.9%
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1017 64.8%
University of California-Berkeley 882 64.7%
Texas A & M University 978 64.7%
Boston University 264 64.1%
Clemson University 476 64.1%
SUNY at Binghamton 155 63.8%
University of Virginia-Main Campus 354 63.0%
University of Notre Dame 213 62.5%
Duke University 235 61.8%
Case Western Reserve University 279 61.2%
The University of Texas at Austin 976 61.0%
University of Rochester 101 60.8%
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 629 60.6%
University of Delaware 205 60.3%
University of Connecticut 237 60.2%
University of Wisconsin-Madison 623 59.4%
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 1388 58.5%
University of Maryland-College Park 658 58.2%
University of California-Los Angeles 480 57.9%
Northwestern University 302 57.7%
Cornell University 628 57.2%
University of Florida 839 57.0%
The University of Tennessee 273 56.6%
Washington University in St Louis 225 56.5%
University of California-Santa Cruz 57 55.3%
University of Pennsylvania 238 54.6%
University of California-Santa Barbara 223 54.0%
University of Colorado at Boulder 431 53.9%
Princeton University 182 51.3%
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 967 51.0%
Dartmouth College 56 49.6%
Carnegie Mellon University 323 46.1%
Columbia University in the City of New York 318 43.9%
Yale University 37 41.1%
Stevens Institute of Technology 193 41.0%
Harvard University 25 40.3%
California Institute of Technology 81 39.3%
Syracuse University 143 37.2%
Johns Hopkins University 232 34.6%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 407 31.3%
Southern Methodist University 70 23.3%
University of Southern California 302 23.1%
George Washington University 54 23.0%
Stanford University 242 21.5%</p>