<p>GT ranks higher, RPI is smaller with hands on opportunities. I will be major in civil/environmental engineering, and am an international student so it doesn't really matter where to live, and nearly no requirements for livings. I want to learn more people by the way.</p>
<p>I plan go to graduate schools immediately after my undergraduate years, and it seems that GT's graduate courses are much better than RPI's, so if I go to GT, then I could easily continue my graduate years there, but if I go to RPI ... I am a little worried that if I can't go to a graduate school as good as GT from there.</p>
<p>I have never been to states, so I hope anyone could help here? BIG BIG thanks !!!</p>
<p>If you do well you can certainly go to highly regarded graduate schools from RPI. I went to Cornell for grad school (many years ago) and had classmates go to other Ivies, Stanford, MIT, etc. I suggest you contact the department chairman’s office and ask whether they have stats and/or a list of graduate school admissions for recent classes.</p>
<p>RPI’s smaller size is one of the reasons I choose to go there over some of the good public
engineering schools. I got a chance to do undergraduate research which is one of the reasons that I was hired by Texas Instruments. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry too much about the rankings. RPI’s reputation for undergraduate engineering is terrific. Newsweek published a “New Ivy League” issue a couple of years ago
and RPI was on the list of those schools whose UG programs rival the Ivy league. </p>
<p>GT has great grad program indeed, but for UG, RPI is just is strong as GT if not better for
someone who thrives in the smaller learning environment.</p>
<p>I agree…my son is an RPI grad and got accepted to all the top schools for graduate school. I believe that your course selection in college, gpa and recommendations, and GRE’s all will help you to get to a good grad school. Being able to work with your prof. , do research are all important. RPI gives you that opportunity…</p>
<p>RPI is a great school, and they have a program where you can do BS/MS in 5 years. For students that qualify for aid/scholarships, RPI rep said it would apply for the 5th year too (doublecheck on that if interested … I have not seen it in writing.) </p>
<p>joke.superman -
You should understand that the weather is very, VERY different at RPI vs GT (which I assume is Georgia Tech). The NY winters can be brutal. Cold, snowy, dreary, etc. It is certainly survivable, but you should be aware of the weather factor before you arrive. Oh… autumn (sept/oct, the beginning of fall semester) can be a beautiful time in NY.<br>
Georgia would have mild winters, but it may be very hot/humid other times. Somebody else will need to fill in those details.</p>