<p>I'm talking about top universities from respective countries like</p>
<p>Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Korea Advanced Institute of Technology/ POSTECH
National Singapore University
etc?</p>
<p>All schools above rank very highly on world wide rankings. </p>
<p>How would they compare to top schools like Cornell, Carneggie Mellon, etc? </p>
<p>How about good state schools like PennState or UMaryland, UWisconsin, etc?</p>
<p>Highly ranked and prestigious Foreign engineering universities are really respected in the US because people from such schools have different specialities and talents to offer. KAIST in Korea is regarded as an IVY for engineering.</p>
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<p>That would be rather unfortunate considering the Ivies are not considered to be any sort of advantage in engineering.</p>
<p>Yeah, I understand that Cornell and Penn are the strongest Ivy League engineering schools but that they, while very good, aren’t up to the level of Illinois, Michigan, RPI or Georgia Tech.</p>
<p>Lake Jr. is thinking about supplementing his U.S. degree with studies at Groninger University in the Netherlands, which I understand is one of the finest engineering schools in Europe.</p>
<p>Cornell and Princeton, really. Penn is still pretty good though. Others simply haven’t historically emphasized the course of study and so aren’t really that great yet.</p>
<p>And if Lake Jr. is thinking about the Netherlands, why not TU Delft? I suppose that depends on the engineering discipline, though.</p>
<p>Graduate schools in the US will properly evaluate applicants from foreign engineering schools. Sometimes it will take a bit of research into the less well-known schools, but that’s our business.</p>
<p>It could be a different situation with some employers, and the reason I say that is that applicants for PE licenses have to jump through a lot of extra hoops if they didn’t graduate from an ABET accredited school, no matter which school it is. Companies with a global presence won’t suffer from that kind of provincialism, but some others might.</p>
<p>Boneh3had, I’ll tell Lake Jr. to investigate TU Delft. He was curious about Groninger because it appeared on a list (Fortune or Bloomberg Businessweek maybe?) of the “best” Material Science Engineering Schools in the world; and the M.S. program instruction is in English. I took a look at Groninger’s web site and nearly fell out of my chair when I saw how relatively inexpensive the the M.S. degree program is for international students. Also saw a list of Groninger alumni who teach in the USA. Not a long list; Ex-pats from China.</p>
<p>I’m an engineering manager. I’m familiar with the names of the really prestigious international engineering schools, and given them appropriate credit when hiring. If I see an otherwise interesting resume with a degree from an international school which I am unfamiliar with, I typically do a quick internet search about the school, and if possible, ask someone I know from that country what the reputation of that school is. However, I’ve worked at companies with very internationally diverse staffs, which is not universally the case.</p>
<p>Some schools are pretty good, i.e. any of the German TU-xxxx’s, in the Netherlands Delft, I have a couple coworkers from U of Edinburgh… European schools of course. Add METU to the mix (Middle Eastern Technical University in Turkey) and a few pretty good schools in Sweden.</p>