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Duke makes up for what it lacks in its other engineering disciplines with Biomedical Engineering.
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It's a niche. Doesn't really help if you want to do electrical, computer or mechanical engineering, the largest departments in most engineering schools. Besides, most of those students don't really like biology...</p>
<p>renssaelaer. I think they have a good program there. not sure though!</p>
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Doesn't really help if you want to do electrical, computer or mechanical engineering
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then don't go to duke if you want to do electrical, computer, or mechanical...</p>
<p>typical logic from a michigan fan. oh wait what happened last weekend. what's that, we destroyed you. oh yeah i forgot. no wait, i didn't.</p>
<p>Um... I was simply echoing what novi said that "Duke isn't...particularly strong in most fields of engineering". You can say that Duke is strong in Biomedical Engineering but you can't say that Duke has a good engineering school ... which is the topic of this thread.</p>
<p>About last week. Have you seen the game? mgoblog called it the "cripple bowl". Michigan is in a rebuilding season and we will get better. On the other hand, you guys are supposed to be much better than last season. Good luck this week at MSU and next with Purdue.</p>
<p>Wait a minute. The OP was looking for a school that's public, cheap, and "close by", i.e., close to NY. Rensselaer is neither public or cheap, but at least it's close by. Duke has NONE of the things the OP said he's looking for, right?? And NC State, Ga Tech and Va tech are a long ways away from NY.
Again I think the SUNY schools are ideal. Penn State and UMass are also good possibilites, but if funds are limited, even those are hard to justify as compared to the SUNYs.<br>
OP, I think you've had the best idea all along- U Buffalo, or one of the other two SUNYs I mentioned.</p>
<p>Rutgers...</p>
<p>Thanks for your comments weldon. I guess I was right all along :). I will check out penn state and UMass too. thanks once again.</p>
<p>No problem. Notice too that one of the latter posters mentioned Rutgers. This would be an alternative also since New Brunswick, NJ is pretty easy to get to from most parts of New York, and again it is a good solid school. Also NJ public schools may be the second-cheapest in the Northeast for out-of-state students (New York is cheapest!) so you can at least get an idea of what you may be up against if you want to go outside NY. Again in NJ, you may want to look at Rowan. It has the disadvantage of being less well-known than the other schools that have been suggested here. However, it appears to have engineering facilities for undergraduates that are second-to-none in the area and its reputation is on the rise. I know that Rowan is particularly generous with merit aid for US citizens with good academic records, but I really don't know anything about financial aid for non-US citizens at any of the schools talked about on this thread. Good luck!</p>
<p>purdue is a great engineering school. university of illinois urbana-champaign is great to but harder to get into.</p>
<p>Purdue (not so close though)</p>