<p>I heard Yale is not the greatest place for engineering, but it is trying hard to better its engineering school. What is it really like? Should I even bother considering applying to Yale for its engineering program? What do students do after graduating from the engineering school of Yale?</p>
<p>Any comments are appreciated!</p>
<p>It depends on what you think it means to be a “great” place for engineering. If you mean that many students are involved in it (like it would be at a tech school such as MIT, Caltech) then, understandably, no. About 5% of Yale students are engineering majors. But then again, Yale is rich and will be able to fund research abroad, or at Yale during a summer or school year very easily.</p>
<p>Yale’s engineering department has an exceptionally high faculty - student ratio so it will be easy to find a teacher to help you while it not be at other schools. 30% of Yale’s engineering department is female compared to the national average of 19%.</p>
<p>As for what the students do after graduating, about a fifth of the engineers go into each of
<p>And I believe that the quality of engineering education at Yale has no less merit than that of other schools. By nature of its low admission rate, it only brings in the best students. The students that go into engineering here had to be at the top of what they did in high school. This could mean being an Intel / Siemens Finalist, etc., but it does not necessarily have to. One of the girls I had met here had participated in iPho(as a junior, no less!), and a US team gold medalist from iCho matriculated to Yale as well, and also some person who was an alternate for IOL. The students have the same merits as students that go to tech schools, and the teachers have the same awards as the faculty at other top tier schools. </p>
<p>I chose this place over MIT to go into an engineering discipline and I don’t regret it one bit.</p>
<p>While I agree with Lagiut in that Yale attracts some great students, it cannot hide the fact that only 5% of all Yale students do engineering. If you are serious about engineering, why would you go to a school where only 5% of the students share your interests? Yes I realize that you need diversity and yada yada, but five percent just seems too low. </p>
<p>To the gist of it, if you want an interdisciplinary education that combines engineering with humanities, Yale isn’t a bad choice. But if you are hard-core about science, engineering and math (and don’t want to go into fluffy careers like consulting and i-banking after graduation), I would pick a school where a greater percentage of its students share the same interests.</p>
<p>I basically agree that Yale is not a huge engineering powerhouse, but I will point out that 5% of Yale undergrads is still 250 students.</p>
<p>Those 250 students were total numbers from freshmen to seniors all together. When the number gets this low, it is harder to create the kind of enviroments at MIT. The number issue also hinders CalTech too. The undergraduate student body there is just too small.</p>
<p>Yale doesn’t count the CS majors as part of the 250, so that 250 is raised to 330 when you consider the Computer Science and CS/Joint majors (CS / Math, CS / EE, CS / Psych), of which there are about 20 each year.</p>
<p>It depends on what you want.</p>
<p>If you want a CULTURE which lives engineering, MIT or Caltech would be a better fit. I don’t actually think the quality of the education is inherently better there though - the atmosphere definitely focuses on engineering more though. Yale does give students tremendous opportunities: the perspectives grant means that you have a guaranteed stipend if you’re in that class, and it’s impossible to state how accessible research is for undergraduates here. The opportunities are quite incredible. </p>
<p>Also Lagiut, who are you?! I definitely know who you’re talking about in regards to IOL (although there was a guy who did go, who’s international) and IChO (there’s actually an international who went to IChO in 2010 in addition to the US guy), but are there multiple IPhO kids in our year?! Either we know each other or there are more of us than I thought… oh, and there’s also some IOI representation in our year as well (: </p>
<p>Anyway, I don’t know why I frequent this site anymore - I’m considering a physics major at Yale though, so the OP wants, feel free to contact me.</p>
<p>Short answer: No. Yale is NOT a GREAT place for engineering. </p>
<p>It is probably a GOOD place for engineering.</p>
<p>depends on what you want do after you get a degree.</p>
<p>If you want to be a hardcore engineer and hobnob only with engineers in future, may be Yale is not right for you. As the numbers point, your contact base as a future engineer will not be large. If you are using your undergrad as a stepping stone into medicine, business or law, then it won’t matter.</p>
<p>OTOH - should you consider applying is superceded by will Yale consider you worthy of an admission since 93 out of 100 applicants get rejected. So whether Yale engineering is good enough is a point that comes into focus when you need to trade off between Harvard, MIT, Princeton and Yale after you get into any of them. It is truly a comparative question once admitted and not a question to be asked at application stage.</p>
<p>^Sorry, but I disagree. You only decide to apply to a school if you like it. If engineering is important for the OP and he finds out that Yale’s program in this field is not what he is looking for, he might decide not to apply regardless of his odds of acceptance.</p>
<p>^ There is very little chance of being accepted in the first place. So should I apply because of blah blah blah is a moot point. Same applies to you.</p>
<p>Btw, Yale does not admit by major. There are lots of people who start in a major and change. A student who graduated last year from Yale went from mechanical engieering as a freshman to a spectrum of sciences after first year to MD/PhD program at columbia.</p>
<p>I do not want to start a controversy here, but I do not understand your comment. Say, in another context that you are interested in law school, but since admission is so selective at medical school, you should apply to the medical school as well because “should I apply because of blah blah blah is a moot point”</p>
<p>Well, thank you guys for your replies! Yes, I am serious about computer engineering, and I prefer working in high-tech industry after graduation. However, I am also interested in entrepreneurship and I plan to get an MBA after several years of work experience. Yale is just so well-known for its law school, so I was just wondering how job recruiters view Yale engineering students compared to engineering students from Princeton, Penn, MIT, etc…</p>
<p>I know it is hard to get in Yale no matter what you want to major in, and since I am not able to visit the campus, I just want to get a feeling of the school in the engineering aspect. :)</p>
<p>What controversy - I am telling you you have limited chance being accepted at Yale. whether it is undergrad, medicine or above all law where the chances close to non-existent. So why confuse that with whether Yale has the best engineering program or not?</p>
<p>Engineering is a stepping a stone for a lot of people but it leads to a lot of other things. I have a couple of those degrees from 24 years ago and have not used either in the past 16 years. Like me, there are a lot of engineers I know who have left their areas after 5 years and gone on to business schools, law or medicine. So if you have not read my first post before you disagreed, I asked the question whether OP intends to stay in engineering for the long haul. Coming out of high school it sounds glamorous but none of the kids are sure what engineering even means.</p>
<p>I read the whole thread but still do not understand your point. I think it is just natural to apply to schools which offer the kind of program you like.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it. I see OP does.</p>
<p>waiting girl - Yale admits a lot of their own grads to law.</p>
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<p>MIT>>>>>> Princeton>Yale</p>
<p>No idea about Penn.</p>
<p>Also consider Columbia Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, both of which would be better than Yale Engineering. And of course Caltech and Stanford if you are interested in the West coast.</p>
<p>How many Yale engineering graduates are jobless?</p>
<p>OTOH, if we want to consider superiority of engineering programs by ranking, here are the ranks.</p>
<p><a href=“http://universityreport.net/us-engineering-school-rankings-2012[/url]”>http://universityreport.net/us-engineering-school-rankings-2012</a></p>
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