<p>columbia will provide great job opportunities in engineering, but Vtech will provide even greater; I wouldn’t think about this in terms of rankings or even quality, I would think about it in terms of Vtech’s strong presence in all aspects of engineering (alumni, industry, research)…whereas Columbia engineering is oblivious in all aspects of engineering relative to Vtech.</p>
<p>Personally, I think it’s a dumb idea to max out on loans for a prestigious degree that’s not even as practical, but if your parents can cover it I personally would go to Columbia because it’s like Vtech only scaled down significantly, more intimate. And because I believe if you have passion, top gpa, impressive tech elective coursework, exceptional internship/research performance (good recs) you’ll go wherever you want to go whether ur coming from columbia or vtech. </p>
<p>Booted, if I visited Vtech and then Columbia…and I was a science/engineering type… I would think Columbia is a joke and the last school I would go to…columbia engineering is obviously not a joke at all but if visit you’ll only see what’s on the surface; a mix of pretentious rich kids and weirdos who spend 50k a year in tuition to study things like poetry. Take a senior in engineering from purdue on a tour of columbia campus and I assure you he’ll laugh at them. On the other hand if you take a senior in engineering from columbia to purdue he’ll wet his pants. </p>
<p>look at all that goodness
<a href=“Research Labs - Mechanical Engineering - Purdue University”>Research Labs - Mechanical Engineering - Purdue University;
<p>it’s up to you, based on the fact you want to do IE, which maybe you want to go then full on business and less so technical fields, Columbia is great for that…but like I said you should be loaded for 4.5-5 yrs of columbia tuition.</p>