Hi,
Can a current or recent student at HMC talk about the school’s Engineering program? How hard is it to maintain a good (ie above 3.0) GPA? What firms (both tech and finance) recruit on campus? Are you able to go to career / on campus recruiting events at other Claremont colleges?
Trying to decide between studying engineering at HMC or Math/CS at a NESCAC school… any advice/suggestions appreciated.
Thanks!
Page 5 of this document on the Mudd website shows a list of companies where very recent grads have been working:
And this page has useful documents for each major:
https://www.hmc.edu/career-services/students/majors-to-careers/
I personally know engineering grads who are friends of my kid’s who are at SpaceX and MIT Lincoln Lab. There is some crossover between majors to employers. But I will say, if you want a quant job (per your other posts), I’m not sure why you’d major in engineering. A math major (or physics, which has a ton of math required) seems more logical. I can’t see putting yourself through the grueling Mudd engineering major if that is your end goal. Why wouldn’t you study math or CS at Mudd, since you mention them for the NESCAC schools? Mudd is going to be stronger in those 2 majors than any NESCAC school.
Regarding GPA, this is a useful document:
I believe another student or two has graduated with a 4.0 since this was written, but the all time # is still under 10. I think the average GPA at graduation has crept up a bit as well (closer to 3.4). But a significant number of students do graduate with under a 3.0. My kid worked insanely hard at Mudd – and graduated (proudly) with just over a 3.0. She went in with 2380 SATs (on a 2400 scale) and 800s on both her subject tests. So she was no slouch academically to start with.
Bottom line – Mudd gets the career and grad school results they do from taking top academic students and putting them through an intensely rigorous program. My kid commented after a few months in grad school that she is just coming to realize now how different her undergrad experience at Mudd (especially the workload) was from pretty much everyone else’s.
Not sure about recruiting events on the other campuses, but maybe someone else can weigh in on that.