hi!
Does anybody know of non-specialty schools that have good engineering programs? Im looking for either mechanical or aerospace engineering.
Are there any undergraduate schools that have an aerospace/aeronautical engineering major?
By non-specialty i mean not specifically engineering schools, but schools with a broader range of majors.
Any advice is much appreciated!!!
<p>you need to tell us how good you are (not specific like my sats are blah, but a generality), like are your stats good enough to get you into any ivy, or a top 25 school, or are you more of a state school applicant, otherwise we might recommend a school that is out of your reach</p>
<p>Ivies would be my reach schools, but i think there i might be able to get in. I am planning to apply to a couple. Basically, im looking at pretty selective schools.</p>
<p>well im not sure but I hear texas A&M has an awesome engineering program. They are pretty selective.</p>
<p>penn state has an excellent engineering program</p>
<p>oh ya, i forgot to mention that im only looking for schools in the northeast.</p>
<p>My own opinion (in order of preference):</p>
<p>1) MIT
2.) Northeastern
3.) UMass
4.) BU
5.) Tufts</p>
<p>WPI would be #2 but its pretty much a tech school.</p>
<p>also add Cornell, top notch engineering</p>
<p>Bucknell and Lafayette--and I think Lehigh as well-- have very good engineering programs. They are both great schools. You should check them out!!!</p>
<p>mechanical or aerospace engineering</p>
<p>Cit
Stanford
Mit
UCLA
Uc San Diego
Uc Davis
U. of Michigan</p>
<p>All these schools are very well known in the aerospace and mechanical industtries as top notch schools</p>
<p>Georgia Tech is one of the best in Aerospace Engineering</p>
<p>Many of the Big 10 schools are good for engineering- Purdue, Michican, Illinois, Penn State.... Cornell is the best Ivy Engineering, while CalTech and MIT are also excellent.</p>
<p>Add Rensselaer and RIT to that as well</p>
<p>Lehigh, Lafayette</p>
<p>I believe the OP asked for schools in the northeast, and maybe it's just me, but when I think of northeastern schools, places like Caltech, Stanford, or the UC's don't exactly come to mind. </p>
<p>Best northeastern engineering school, hands down, MIT. But of course the OP asked for non-specialty schools, and it depends on how you define that term (MIT has lots of different majors, but is definitely engineering-oriented). </p>
<p>Second best - the Ivies, especially Cornell, but also Princeton and Harvard (yes, Harvard has engineering). </p>
<p>Third best - places like RPI (but again, the OP said he didn't want a specialty school). Or how about the larger public schools</p>
<p>You cannot forget about the Engineering at Lehigh. If you have never heard about it, i recommend that you ask around and you will find out. Lehigh is ranked in the top 20 in practically every engineering category that is offered here</p>
<p>Schools tend to be either engineering schools (MIT, Caltech, Harvey Mudd, Carnegie Mellon, GA tech, RIT, Drexel, ....) or else engineering departments/colleges within large state universities. The ivies are not particularly strong in engineering. I believe that Princeton and Cornell might be the best among the ivies. I can't speak to aerospace engineering, but it is unusual among engineering. The basic engineering majors are EE, Mechanical, Chemistry, and Civil. I don't have direct knowledge, but private schools like Tufts may have eng but not aerospace eng. If you want to go to a school that has a strong aerospace eng program but you don't want everybody at the school to be an engineer, I would suggest that you look at large public universities with strong aerospace eng colleges within the univ.</p>
<p>Wherever you go, you will be applying to the engineering college even if it is within the larger university. Engineering has different admissions procedures than for the non-engeering majors. There is more emphasis on your SAT I Math score and the SAT II Math IC/IIC scores. </p>
<p>There are also differences after you are accepted. The freshman curriculum for all engineering majors is standardized for freshmen and includes Physics, Chem, Calculus, and Computers all at the same time. Also while students in other majors tend to be nurtured to help them succeed, the engineering faculty tries to thin the herd by grading so hard that a large percentage of the students leave engineering. (This is similar to pre-med.)</p>
<p>I wouldn't say that Carnegie-Mellon is an 'engineering school'. True, CMU's engineering is strong, but CMU is also quite diversified and offers a complete portfolio of majors. </p>
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<p>The different admissions procedure tends to be a feature only within the public schools. There is no separate admissions process for engineering students at many of the top private schools like MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Princeton, etc. I also suspect that Georgia Tech also does not run separate admissions for engineers (although I could be wrong about this). However, the point is, plenty of schools lump all their applicants into one big pool and then admit students from that pool regardless of whether they indicate they want to be engineers or not. It's not going to be easier for you to get into MIT just because you say you don't want to be an engineer.</p>
<p>U Maryland has a good aerospace eng program, ranked 10th as an undergraduate department by USNews.....lots of aerospace firms and organizations around the DC area.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.aero.umd.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.aero.umd.edu/</a></p>
<p>When you fill out the app, you specify what college within the university that you are applying to. It is not unique to engineering if you think about business/music/arts majors applying to specific colleges within a university.</p>
<p>I agree that Carnegie Mellon is a eng school that goes beyond engineering. Also, Pittsburgh is a great college town.</p>