<p>I have room for one more school on my list, and it’s coming down to Brown or MIT. I visited both, and liked the MIT campus itself a little better…but I am also a huge fan of the open curriculum. To make my choice easier…</p>
<p>1) Can someone comment on Brown’s engineering department? I.E. reputation, difficulty, etc. Is there a lot of hands-on learning/projects to be done? And how significant are the concentration requirements? Is there still enough time to take classes outside the field if you are an enginnering concentration?</p>
<p>2) Can someone comment on the Brown social life? Typical weekend, Greek influence, parties, sports, etc?</p>
<p>What snotty responses... perhaps you should go to MIT just so you don't have to deal with the authors :smile:</p>
<p>If you want top-notch engineering, go to MIT, it really has few peers... if you are going there for grad school. Undergrad? Eeeh, go anywhere, every university offers more opportunities than any student can take advantage of. You are correctly trying to make a distinction based on secondary factors. From your post, it seems that you want the opportunity to do more things than just engineering. Brown would probably offer more possibilities in that area.</p>
<p>I've worked in high tech in silicon valley for 20+ years, and Brown is very well regarded for its engineering here. The several Brown grads I've known here have all loved their Brown eng experience (which isn't to say MIT grads dont like MIT.) An undergrad of Brown who attended Sloan for his MBA said MIT was more competitive, as a matter of culture.</p>
<p>But the real difference is Brown is a liberal arts college, and MIT, while it has strong departments in some non-eng areas, is primarily a science and tech school at the undergrad level. So that's the real difference that is probably the most significant.</p>