City College of New York (CCNY - CUNY) [least cost option; School is located in Upper Manhattan (Harlem) and is primarily a Commuter School. High number of International/Foreign Born Students as part of the Engineering Program]
Stony Brook University (SUNY)
New York University Polytechnic;
Manhattan College - (Not familiar with this School as far as Engineering is concern)
Cooper Union
Columbia University ( probably the most expensive of the group- Also located in Harlem- Upper West Side)
Some of these Institutions might not meet all your listed criteria. CCNY and Stony Brook University are probably your least expensive option (Tuition & Fees only). Stony Brook is located out side of NYC, approximate 60 minutes by car - Long Island.
Is there someone who´s familiar with the campuses and housings of the following colleges/universities ?
CUNY / The City College of New York
CUNY / New York City College of Technology
NYU-Poly
Manhattan College
Stevens Institute of Technology
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Rutgers University New Brunswick
Which institutes has representable campuses incl. halls ?
It´s not that other important factors (e.g. academics) are uninteresting
but I just want to know something about the visual impression of some
academic institutions. This is one of the most difficult information to get
from the internet.
FYI, I don’t think “CUNY / New York City College of Technology” has a Mechanical Engineering Program. The have a Mechanical Engineering Technology program which is probably at the Associate Degree level.
What are you trying to accomplish here by asking about the Campus and Housing for the listed Institutions? You are a 42/43 Mechanical Engineer from Germany, so are you looking to go to Graduate School in the US? Maybe you should hop of a plane and visit the USA (New York City Area) and visit each school to develop your own profile of each school Dorm/Campus. Asking other CC posters to provide you with their take on each school is quite silly if you ask me. That is something you need to do for yourself. So tell us what is your end game? One can talk about a Campus/Dorm, but you must be familiarize yourself with the environment outside these Campuses, especially for a Foreign student.
thank you for taking your time and trying to answer my questions. I think that you´re right and the only reliable possibility to get useful answers to my questions will be a visit of the prospective institutions. That´s what I´m planning to do even if it´ll takes a bit time until then. As you already said I´m a 43 years old [ Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Maschinenbau this is more a M.Eng. than a B.Eng. ] and I´m working for many years for a worldwide acting company ( oil and gas, off shore, process eng. ). I travel a lot in Europe ( e.g. France, Italy, Norway, Finland, Sweden, …) as well as sometimes in the US ( e.g. Houston, Philadelphia, Bethlehem ¶, New York ). I´m just interesting in higher US education especially mech. engineering and it´s affiliated fields of studies. I´ve two children and some day (maybe) one of them is deciding for study abroad [ e.g. academic exchange ]. I´ll take them with me on my trip to NYC area in order to give them an expression of NYC and US colleges/universities even if that doesn´t mean that they´ll decide for one of the shown institutions. It´s more like a teaser to plant a dream, something that will motivate in hard times … That´s the reason why I´m trying to find an (engineering) college/university which is (also) very good looking When I think back to my study times it was always my dream of something important, something extraordinary that I´d like to obtain. For me it was the German Dipl.-Ing. … and if comes to hard times it was always that dream that gives me the power and strength to bear up.
„Wenn Du ein Schiff bauen willst, dann trommle nicht Männer zusammen um Holz zu beschaffen, Aufgaben zu vergeben und die Arbeit einzuteilen, sondern lehre die Männer die Sehnsucht nach dem weiten, endlosen Meer.“
When I think back to my study times it was always my dream of something important, something extraordinary that I´d like to obtain. For me it was the German Dipl.-Ing. … and if comes to hard times it was always that dream that gives me the power and strength to bear up.