<p>It seems that duke has a lot of biomedical engineers, but it doesn't have a lot of mechanical engineers. I know that the biomedical engineering program at duke might be better, but I'm positive that I don't want to do study anything with medicine.
Therefore, does any one know in particular about the MECHANICAL ENGINEERING department at Columbia or Duke, and about which one is probably stronger?</p>
<p>I have to decide ASAP, please help! Your help is really appreciated it!</p>
<p>They're both reasonably strong but neither is a traditional engineering powerhouse. If columbia seas was an option the only engineering major that I would consider going to pratt for is BME, and even that choice would be very difficult to make. </p>
<p>I think columbia mechanical engineering is stronger, but not by much if at all. There are however many many committed mechanical engineers and professors, lots of students involved in the formula1 team and solar car team. In general I have found mech engineering students to be very passionate about what they do, many aspire to go to the top mechE grad schools and get jobs at engineering firms all the time (at&t, boeing, general motors etc.) </p>
<p>The decision should be largely based on what sort of college environment you want to be in, posts in the following threads should help with that:</p>
<p>did you get off the waitlist for columbia or duke? if so when?</p>
<p>oh and for engineering, I don't really like how Columbia SEAS is so separate from the rest of the school, but in terms of ME academic quality, both are pretty equal</p>