looking for good ENGINEERING program!!!!

Applying to College
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<p>I am looking for a school with a good undergrad and graduate program in civil Engineering with a specialty in transportation and highway engineering. WPI has a Highway Infrastructure graduate program, which is exactly what I am looking for. Any other schools?</p>

<p>Also, would it be possible to get a bachelors and 2 masters degrees (an MBA and a Masters in Engineering) in 5-6 years with all the AP credit?</p>

<p>4.1 weighted GPA
SAT: 800 math, 680 verbal, 680 writing (2160 overall)
ACT: 32
APs:
European History - 4
US History - 4
English Language - 4
Macroeconomics - 4
Microeconomics - 5
Environmental Science - 5
Currently taking Chemistry, Physics B and C, and Calculus BC</p>

<p>High School Activities:
•Junior Statesmen of America
•Academic Team
•Chess Club
•Intramural Basketball</p>

<p>Outside Activities:
•Member of First Christian Assembly of God youth group (involvement in many community outreaches in the Coryville area)
•Have traveled to 47 U.S. states</p>

<p>Work:
•Employment at Arby's June-August 2003 (worked the counter)
•Employment at public library October 2004-present (12 hours per week, shelving books)</p>

<p>Community Service:
•Used Book Depository (repair and package used books to send overseas to churches, seminaries, and missionaries in need, mostly in Africa)
•Billy Graham Crusade Usher
•Volunteer for Cincinnati Museum Center (photographed Civil War monuments in Ohio)
•Mission trip to Mexicali, Mexico (lived with poor Mexican families for a week)
•Mission trip to Split, Croatia (helped at a camp for poor teens in the city)
•Habitat for Humanity fundraiser (raised money that went toward building a house for a family in need)</p>

<p>Awards:
•University of Kentucky Arts and Sciences Book Award
•Academic Achievement Awards (based on GPA)
•Certificate of Achievement from 2005 Ohio State Economics Challenge
•National Merit Commended Scholar
•AP Scholar with Distinction</p>

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<p>Penn State has an excellent set of programs in transportation:
<a href="http://www.engr.psu.edu/ce/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.engr.psu.edu/ce/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>well-know transportation research instritute:
<a href="http://www.pti.psu.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.pti.psu.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I am most familiar with the cutting edge work done on pavements here:
<a href="http://www.superpave.psu.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.superpave.psu.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>OSUforMe,
You are making a social error known as trying to highjack somebody else's thread. Go to the screen listing all of the threads for the Admissions forum and click on "New Thread" up towards the upper left hand corner. Start you own thread, and you will get better results anyway.</p>

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<p>dufus-- you are correct...I apologize to all for contributing to this hijacking in my zeal to answer OSUforme's question.</p>

<p>Back to the OP, here's the USNews list of top undergrad aero eng departments at universities w/ doctoral programs:</p>

<ol>
<li>Massachusetts Inst. of Technology<br></li>
<li>Georgia Institute of Technology</li>
<li>University of Michigan–Ann Arbor</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology<br></li>
<li>Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)</li>
<li>Stanford University (CA)<br></li>
<li>Princeton University (NJ)<br></li>
<li>U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>University of Texas–Austin</li>
<li>Univ. of Maryland–College Park </li>
<li>Texas A&M Univ.–College Station </li>
<li>Pennsylvania State U.–University Park</li>
<li>University of Washington </li>
<li>Cornell University (NY)<br></li>
<li>Univ. of California–Los Angeles</li>
<li>Virginia Tech</li>
<li>University of California–Berkeley</li>
<li>University of Colorado–Boulder </li>
<li>University of Florida</li>
</ol>

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<p>I would suggest you look at the United States Merchant Marine Academy. It is very different from the other Federal Service Academies in that upon graduation, you have the option of serving in any of the services or spending eight years in the US Maritime industry. In addition to full tutition, books, room and uniforms, you will spend a year at sea aboard US flag merchant ships getting paid and real world experience. <a href="http://www.usmma.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.usmma.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>