engineering schools

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm a little confused about which schools would be good to attend for an engineer. Schools like Purdue rank very well, while more prestigious schools, like Harvard, don't do that well. Please rank the following schools for engineering, assuming you could gain admissions into all of them.</p>

<h1>1: rank in order of which schools are preferable for getting a job in engineering</h1>

<h1>2: rank in order of which schools you would want to go to.</h1>

<p>Harvard
Princeton
Cornell
Columbia
Carnegie Mellon
Tufts
University of Michigan
Lehigh
Case Western Reserve
McGill
University of Rochester
Penn State University Park</p>

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<p>For criteria #1, refer to the recruiter assesment score for US News graduate rankings. Harvard actually does pretty well in that category.</p>

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<p>ranking #2
Cornell
Princeton
Michigan
Carnegie Mellon
Columbia
Penn State
U of Rochester
Lehigh
Harvard
Tufts
Case Western
McGill</p>

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<p>how come case western ranks so low on your list? I thought that case was good for engineering.</p>

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<p>To be honest, I don't know much about Case Western and McGill engineering. I know more about the others, but I gave you my "gut reaction" about Case. I associate Case Western with good engineering but bad location. Cleveland is a pretty nice city these days but I think Case is close to a bad neighborhood. I associate Harvard with grade inflation and overrated engineering, although a Harvard degree in anything would sure feel good. My rankings were based mostly on my perceived quality of the engineering program but partly on more personal factors. Example: I like U of Rochester because it is close to my home and I know it has strong optics, laser, and biomedical engineering. When it comes to colleges, I think familiarity breeds attraction.</p>

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<p>add Georgia Tech, Illinois, and Northwestern to the list. i forgot those.</p>

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<p>if you get an degree from an ABET-acredited school and do an internship in engineering while in college, you will have no trouble landing a job no matter what school you go to.</p>

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<p>Cornell/Michigan
Georgia Tech
Illinois
Princeton
Carnegie Mellon
Columbia
Penn State
Rochester
Harvard
Tufts
Lehigh</p>

<p>No idea where NU, McGill, or Case Western fit in.</p>

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<p>Lehigh has really good civil, mechanical, and environmental engineering - among the top doctoral programs in the country</p>

<p>for undergrad I have no clue though, except that Cornell and Georgia Tech are really good engineering schools</p>

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<p>The reality is is that they are all good schools. Do well at any, and you will get into any grad program in the country. So....pick the one(s) that best matches your personal needs (location, size, cost, co-op programs....) and fret no more over this rankings nonsense.</p>

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<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=83448%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=83448&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Trinity is notably absent from your list, unless you're intentionally ruling out LACs.</p>

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<p>rog, u can copy and paste that in any threads of "College Search & Selection" and it would look like it made sense.</p>

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<p>thanks very much everyone. this was really helpful to me. i'm not applying to all the schools on that list, but have been curious about that for a while. beginning- i'm looking for larger schools than that. i looked at bucknell (also a LAC, but larger) but i didn't like it.</p>