I prefer Buffalo’s campus and enviornment, but my parents are pushing towards Stevens because of it’s better job placement. I am going for a degree in Computer Science and I have honors at Buffalo.
hat college should I choose between Suny - University at Buffalo and Stevens Institute of Technology
Net price and debt at each?
Stevens definitely, but yes, first get offers from both schools and work out the financials for both. Stevens placement in industry and government though is such that taking on student loans to attend is a good investment.
Placement from honors at SUNY Buffalo may well be different than general placement. Contact your department, the Career Center, and the honors program and ask about that.
Stevens placement is significantly better than SUNY Buffalo (or any other SUNY campus for that matter). I don’t think that SUNY keeps statistics of placement of “honors” students as opposed to to the general student body. A regular admission student (non Pinnacle Scholar, which is Stevens’ honors program) at Stevens has equal to or better qualifications (SAT/HS GPA) than an honors student at SUNY BTW.
Stevens recruiting is about location. I’m not saying its not a great school in the RPI/WPI mold , but the Buffalo/Stony/Bing honors kids are tops. You have to hustle more for internships and jobs. The job fairs are just OK, but not in the same league as the tech schools.
My kid had a 4.0/1500+ but he more math/science than CS. All his room mates are CS/Engineering or PreMeds and had similar stats so the top honors kids look like any other school.
Depends on the cost differential. As others said, you will need to travel from Buffalo to get good internships and jobs, but the cost savings between the two institutions could make this extra travel very easy to pay for.
The technical schools show better job salaries and placement because basically all their grads are engineers.
Look at Buffalo on niche and scroll to number of grads by major. Mechanical engineering is the sixth most popular major. The salaries of five lower-paying majors are averaged in with those engineering grads’ salaries. (Some top business majors will get engineering-high salaries, but nowhere near all of them.)
Job stats are really about major choice and local area job market more than which college you went to. A CS degree is valuable, period.
Stevens recruiting is about the breadth and depth of the curriculum, which equips the students with superior ability to solve problems of an interdisciplinary nature. This is a highly prized attribute of Stevens graduates, which is why employers line up to hire them. While location is a factor, it is not the only one by any means. In my opinion “honors” programs (in any school) are more of a marketing tool than an academic feature. The admissions statistics of SUNY honors students are about equal to the regular admissions students of Stevens for example.
The OP has not come back with the cost/debt numbers.
@Angular, SUNYBuffalo is where my SoCal daughter attended for EE and minored in CS.
She is working her in SoCalifornia for a BIG contractor with her UB degree.
Her previous large employer tried to match the current salary jump she just received when she switched 6 months ago to her new company. She had a large interview panel because of her dual skills experience, and, managers were fighting for her placement in their programs.
Those dual skills came from SUNY Buffalo.
Daughter’s co-interns, in her junior year, at her first placement included UC students (UCLA, UCSD), USC, SDSU, and Cal Poly SLO/PP students.
I have sent you a PM.