<p>Just curious, has anyone actually graduated in 5 years from engineering and went on to a good job/grad school? Is it encouraged to graduate in 5 years if one's GPA will be higher?</p>
<p>It’s fairly common. From what I’ve seen jobs at least don’t care how long it took you to graduate, not sure about grad school.</p>
<p>I’ll probably be graduating in 5 years, but I am a transfer student going from an engineering technology program to an engineering program, so alot of my credits don’t transfer.</p>
<p>I’ll be graduating in 5 years, but that’s because I’m doing multiple Co-Op terms (and with a company I’d like to work for at that).</p>
<p>I don’t think graduating in 5 years instead of 4 will affect your chances of being admitted to grad school. If you think about it, that’s an extra year you can do research or whatever you’re interested in.</p>
<p>I know at some schools like Northeastern, the co-op mandates that you are there for 5 years (and co-ops are pretty awesome to have on your resume). At other schools like UC Berkeley, it might not be easy to do a double major or whatever if you don’t plan well and especially if one of your majors is engineering. Grad schools and employers probably understand and don’t care unless the reason was because of too many failed classes.</p>
<p>I don’t usually consider someone who did a co-op and graduated in 5 calender years to have “graduated in five years.” Pretty much whenever I hear the term it is referring to five academic years. Doing a co-op for a year is absolutely going to give you an advantage in whatever direction you decide to go.</p>
<p>“I know at some schools like Northeastern, the co-op mandates that you are there for 5 years (and co-ops are pretty awesome to have on your resume)” </p>
<p>Northeastern CAN be a 5 year school. As of now I will graduate in three years (four years total) with a summer of research and two coops.</p>
<p>I graduated in 4 years, but I was definitely in the minority. Most of my friends took 5. I placed out of a few classes and took a couple of summer ones to make it in 4.</p>
<p>I want to study abroad in Singapore or Hong Kong and co-op too so I will definitely be in school for 5 years</p>
<p>I’ll be graduating in 4 years and a half.</p>
<p>I decided on an engineering major after my first semester of gen-eds, so I’m already a semester behind. Throw in the budget cuts which affect the amount of classes to take, my desire to do a semester abroad, and that I’m going to be a transfer student, I would be happy to graduate in 5 years lol. Everytime I go through my ed plan and look at what classes are being offered it seems that I will never graduate lol.</p>