<p>Hey guys - I am a rising senior interested in engineering as a college major (bio-, mechanical, comp/electrical, NOT chemical, financial, civil)</p>
<p>I have extremely good grades, SAT scores, ECs etc. (not really relevant to list them) so I am looking at pretty selective schools.</p>
<p>I prefer a school near a city/urban environment and something between 5000 and 25000 students. </p>
<p>Is UPenn considered good engineering (i.e. is an engineering degree from UPenn respected/ can i get into a good grad school??)</p>
<p>If you have any other suggestions on where I may want to apply, I'd appreciate any insight. Fanks.</p>
<p>Penn engineering is well respected. It’s a top 20-30 program. It’s not MIT or Georgia Tech, but it’s pretty darn good. The research opportunities here are pretty good and you will have good preparation for grad school. The thing about Penngineers is that they tend to not really go into engineering after gradutation. Many (especially those in BE) go on to med school. Others go on to law school. Even more go onto business. I’d say about half actually get engineering jobs upon graduation. That’s not to say that Penn won’t prepare you for an engineering job. It just means that many of your peers aren’t looking to actually become engineers after graduating.</p>
<p>Note that for bioengineering, Penn is generally ranked in the top 10 in the country.</p>
<p>also consider Cornell. Cornell is easy to get into (acceptance at my school is ridiculous) and VERY respected.</p>
<p>If pure engineering’s your thing, I suggest MIT (Boston) and Carnegie Mellon (Pittsburgh). Cornell is far from an city/urban environment and Harvey Mudd is much smaller than the size you want. Princeton has pretty good engineering too and by train is pretty close to NYC. And Stanford isn’t too far from San Francisco.</p>
<p>Penn’s engineering is perfectly good as well, but not usually as well-respected as the aforementioned schools. I’m planning on studying computer science and actually ended up turning down Carnegie Mellon because I thought I’d get a better college experience at Penn and I’m not sure I want to do pure engineering (thinking about pursuing a dual-degree now). But if I wanted to do nothing but computer science, Carnegie Mellon would’ve been amazing.</p>
<p>Oh, and Columbia’s engineering isn’t bad either and it’s right in NYC.</p>
<p>How about UPenn vs Northwestern vs Brown for Engineering? Going to top grad programs is my biggest factor!</p>
<p>Well as of now, I’m not 100% sure what career I want. I most likely want to be an engineer, though I have considered medical school and I have considered doing CompSci/Math major and then going into finance. </p>
<p>At a place like Penn or Columbia, I have this option of going into a great finance program more than places like HMC or Carnegie Mellon. MIT of course is great for everything (they specialize in quantitative analysis for finance).</p>
<p>On Georgia Tech: I know this is a great engineering school, but is it better than places like UPenn, Columbia, Princeton (i.e. places that have great engineering programs but are not specialties/focuses)?</p>