<p>Which universities of the following are more prestigious than the other in terms of "lowest acceptance rates" and overall national and international acceptance of grad program in electrical engineering: Gatech, Purdue, U Michigan Ann Arbor</p>
<p>Hahaha, this question made me laugh. I believe Michigan has the lowest acceptance rate but what the heck does that matter? You would be a fool to choose a school based on that.</p>
<p>I can’t tell you how many threads on here are asking things like this. All three of these schools will provide an excellent education as well as great opportunities upon graduation. You shouldn’t go somewhere just because someone else told you it was more prestigious than your other choices. You should go where you think you will fit in the best and what atmosphere you like most. There is no wrong choice here. All three institutions are top notch in the engineering world.</p>
<p>Before I go any further I’d like to say that I completely agree with the previous posters, however, because I’ve met so many pretentious UMich students in my life I’d like to post the actual information.</p>
<p>Gtech –> 30% acceptance rate, 3.6 avg undergrad GPA of students enrolled
Purdue –> 33.4% acceptance rate, 3.5 avg undergrad GPA of students enrolled
Umich –> 36.1% acceptance rate, 3.5 avg undergrad GPA of students enrolled</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>Makes no difference to anything. To have a true sense of anything resembling prestige based on acceptance rate you need to know</p>
<p>-Masters Acceptance rate(Funded & Non-funded)
-PhD acceptancerate(Funded & Non-funded)…and yes I’ve heard of Michigan giving out unfunded PhD acceptances.
-Size of Program</p>
<p>With all that being said, I think Stanford may have an EE acceptance rate around 30% too.</p>
<p>Also, keep in mind that the acceptance rates can vary wildly from year to year. This is espcially true if the schools loses funding or changes thier acceptance policy(ie, no PhD acceptance without this year, even though we did it last year).</p>
<p>Michigan students aren’t so bad, by the way(my undergrad). Don’t base your opinion of the average Michigan student from the ■■■■■■ lurking around the University of Michigan Forum here.</p>
<p>I disagree. I don’t think acceptance rate says ANYTHING about school prestige in almost ANY situation. You can draw a few useful conclusions if you have a full fact sheet in front of you, but it really doesn’t say much that they are selective other than they have either a small program or a ton of applicants or both. Neither of those is necessarily indicative of prestige.</p>
<p>Purdue, can you tell me where you got those numbers (specifically for UMich)? It’s not that I don’t believe you, but I’ve been looking for those numbers and have been unable to find them.</p>
<p>Specifically the GPA data.</p>
<p>Acceptance rate does not equal prestige. There are tons of schools with ridiculously low acceptance rates that are not prestigious (Jarvis Christian College, 4.5% acceptance rate) and then there are schools with relatively high acceptance rates (University of Michigan, University of Chicago) that are much more prestigious. Bottom line: don’t make a misinformed decision regarding the acceptance rates and prestige alone.</p>
<p>US News Graduate School Rankings</p>
<p>Are you a subscriber?</p>
<p>If so can you please tell me what the average GPA for admittance for the Industrial Engineering program is for UMich? Thank you.</p>