Looking for a college

College Search & Selection
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<p>I am looking for a list of colleges where I should start my search....
I want a small school or a small program within a large school in which The faculty is accessible and classes are small.
Right now I want to do industrial engineering. I also want a school with multiple strong programs that I could switch to if I wanted. But right now I want to look mainly at industrial engineering</p>

<p>Im in Texas (I dont want to go to UT austin) at a top 100 in the nation high school.
Here are my quick stats:
4.00 unweighted gpa
5.40 weighted gpa
216 psat (hopefully natl merit!) (SAT pending), 80 on the math
The whole bundle of AP Classes.
Plenty of extracurriculars, sports, volunteer etc.</p>

<p>I would greatly appreciate a list of Colleges that I can look into.</p>

<p>And does anyone have The US news undergrad program rankings, I dont want to pay for them :P</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Industrial / Manufacturing
(At schools whose highest degree is a bachelor's or master's)
1 Kettering University (MI)
2 Cal Poly–San Luis Obispo *
3 Bradley University (IL)
4 Milwaukee School of Engineering<br>
4 San Jose State University (CA)* </p>

<p>Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Industrial / Manufacturing
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)
1 Georgia Institute of Technology *
2 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
3 Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)*
4 Pennsylvania State U.–University Park *
5 University of California–Berkeley *
6 Stanford University (CA)
7 Northwestern University (IL)
8 Texas A&M Univ.–College Station *
9 Virginia Tech *
10 Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
11 Cornell University (NY)
12 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology<br>
12 U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
14 Ohio State University–Columbus *
14 Univ. of Southern California<br>
16 University of Florida *
16 University of Pittsburgh *
18 Columbia University (NY)
18 North Carolina State U.–Raleigh * </p>

<p>Check out Rice as well...smaller school and great engineering programs.</p>

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<p>Does rice really have great engineering? I was looking at rice but didn't see them high on many ranking lists. Also, does michigan ann-arbor have any sort of engineering honors?</p>

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<p>Rice has great engineering...it just doesn't offer industrial engineering. You could major in engineering statistics or computational/applied math, which are closely related to industrial engineering.</p>

<p>UMich does have an honors program...but I don't know anything about it and if it applies to the engineering department.</p>

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<p>Union college, in schenectady ny, would be a good safety for you! It's a small liberal arts college that also has a good engineering program</p>

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<p>Actually I would rather go to a small program within a large school. that way I have more majors available if I want to switch</p>

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<p>Rice dominates, especially if you're National Merit. And Union is a good safety. The e-school there is smaller than the rest of the liberal arts portion, and they've got lots of options. I visited a couple months ago and found it nice, but a little too frat/sorority oriented for my tastes.</p>