<p>Are they renowned or respectable in the fields?</p>
<p>engineering as a whole depends on the specific department:
bioengineering is in the top 10 nationwide, but other departments are not so highly ranked.</p>
<p>Architecture is one of the absolute top pre-professional programs in the US. Don't plan on doing it together with engineering though unless you stay five years - the architecture major is extremely demanding.</p>
<p>I talked with a graduate student in architecture. He said the program at Penn is fantastic.</p>
<p>it pretty much pwns</p>
<p>On a side note, Penn architects designed the wind tunnel in the Village.</p>