How important is ABET?

<p>what school is this?</p>

<p>The University of Arkansas - Fort Smith</p>

<p><a href="http://www.uafortsmith.edu/Engineering%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.uafortsmith.edu/Engineering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Thanks dr_reynolds. Appreciate your perspective.</p>

<p>i hope u know that purdue is not a top 5 engineering school.</p>

<p>Ok...so it's sixth or seventh...sorry!</p>

<p>thanks for the advice.</p>

<p>Maybe I can still get into I-banking if I don't go to a top engineering school. </p>

<p>BTW how does Wentworth institute of technology, umass-boston, and suffolk university rank in terms of engineering?</p>

<p>I think it is important to note that just b/c you go to a well ranked school doesnt mean you have the large lectures Dr. Reynolds speaks of. I go to CMU, I believe ranked in top 10 for undergrad. The largest class i was in was Physics one with around 250. The recitations for that class were led by mostly international grad, but they could all speak english fairly well and could express their ideas and elaborate on questions. Keep in mind that this is freshman year. For my major, mat sci, the most number of ppl I will have in any class is around 30. which is small and allows for super personal attention. The teachers care about helping you learn and go out of their way to do it. I have 2 examples:</p>

<p>A mechE prof regularly invites his whole class to his office hours and buys them all pizza. When they are there they dont always talk about class. but this allows anyone that has any questions to ask them.</p>

<p>A friend of mine didnt understand a topic in an upper level class. over a 2 day span of time the prof worked with her for 12 hours!!!! </p>

<p>although my school get lots of research money and our prof do lots of research, they do help you whenever you need it. They make time for you and even schedule meetings if you cant meet when they are free.
this doesn't just happen in engineering but all across the board in CMU. faculty student relations rock, even though we are a major research center.</p>

<p>I've heard good things about CMU...even so there's no comparison to schools like I teach at. Our professors have 20 office hours a week and we generally tutor on the weekends as well. We are constantly retuning our teaching to be more effective because that's what we get paid for. We don't have Physics classes of 250, we have Physics classes of 20 or 30.</p>

<p>It's not that one is bad and one is good. All of these high-ranked schools are good...but for undergraduate education it's better at schools that focus on students.</p>

<p>IMO, its Better to go to a school where the classes are big and the university is big. That way, the teachers will Never know if you didn't do your homework or something.</p>

<p>Also at a big high ranked school, you get to do more high tech research and possibly make billions like the guy from MIT</p>