<p>Chuy, as this thread has been about management vs. non-management reputations at universities, do those types of companies go to strictly technical schools as well? For example Georgia Tech or Harvey Mudd? I’m not going to list all of the schools I applied to, but how often do Cornell’s graduates go into non-engineering jobs vs. Georgia Tech?</p>
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<p>My high school doesn’t really have those clubs. The only one I can think of is DECA. Is this the kind of field you mentioned?</p>
<p>I really don’t know all the schools they target, but there were multiple companies at Virginia Tech that were looking at people for management positions. I couldn’t say as far as Cornell versus GT, but if I had to make a wild guess I’d say a greater percentage of Cornell grads go to non-engineering grad school or take non-engineering jobs than GT grads, but there are absolutely a good number of non-engineering job opportunities (and any other type really, GT is a great school) available to GT grads. It’s just that GT students probably tend to be more technically inclined and have the aim of working in an engineering type job while a Cornell student is less likely to feel that way.</p>
<p>From my experience in Materials Science from talking to people who have graduated and people who were hiring, if you want to work in the field of engineering and you don’t want to go into academia or get a graduate degree so that you can do high level research for a company, you’re going to hit a ceiling after several years where it’s either go into some sort of management or stay where you’re at. That being said, all of my experience is with manufacturing companies such as steel mills and the like, so a different career path may have different opportunities.</p>
<p>I don’t know %s these days, but i assure you Cornell produces a goodly share of real engineers, to a far greater extent than some other schools they play football (badly) against.</p>