<p>I'm planning on going to CS/applied math/computer engineering, and I was wondering if these colleges have good undergrad programs for engineering. Also, does it really matter if your undergrad school doesnt have a good undergrad engineering school?</p>
<p>MIT, Berkeley, cmu, stanford (i know all these have good engineering depts..i'm iffy on the following)</p>
<p>columbia
cornell (i THINK it has a good engineering dept...someone verify this plz)
Northwestern
duke
Rice</p>
<p>Cornell has a great engineering department in general, as does Rice. For the rest, they’re not Berkeley/MIT/Stanford caliber but they’re good as well. Also, I don’t think it matters that much where you went for undergrad in terms of job opportunities but for grad school, it would probably be better to mingle with some of the famous professors at the top schools.</p>
<p>The biggest advantage to going to a renowned engineering school in undergrad is the number of top companies that recruit directly from the school (as opposed to you having to apply to them). Every school you listed has a quality engineering department, though some of them excel in only certain specific areas. The other major advantage is that a prestigious school will make it slight easier to get into grad school should that be what you decide you want to do.</p>
<p>I hope you have lots of spare cash around, because every school you listed will be $40kl or higher except for maybe Berkeley.</p>
<p>I have been researching possible engineering schools and I stumbled upon these schools.</p>
<p>Cooper Union
Cal Poly
Rose-Hulman Inst. Tech
Franklin W.Olin College of Engineering
Bucknell University
Villanova University
Harvey Mudd
Milwaukee School of Engineering
San Jose state univeristy
Rowan University
Swarthmore College
Kettering University
Lafayette College
Smith College
Union College</p>
<p>Us News lists them as one of the best small engineering schools but I have never heard of half of them. Does any one know how these schools would compare to Berkley, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell and the big schools?</p>
<p>I think that all of these schools are excellent schools for engineering but are nowhere close to Berkeley, CMU and Cornell with the exception of Harvey Mudd, Rose Hulman, Franklin W. Olin, Cal Poly and Cooper Union (maybe Bucknell too). Another thing is that it depends on which field of engineering because each school has it’s own specialty.</p>
<p>If you’re going to go computer engineering here are the schools that are the best for that:</p>
<p>MIT
UC-Berkeley
Illinois
Carnegie Mellon
Stanford
Georgia Tech
Michigan
Texas
Caltech
Cornell
Rose-Hulman
Harvey Mudd
Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo
Cooper Union
Bucknell
San Jose State</p>