Thanks, @Beaudreau – we do agree.I think a large percentage of state schools have excellent engineering programs. For example, I’ve worked with many engineers from UMass-Lowell and UNH (both are small schools) and they are excellent engineers. So it isn’t so much the school as it is what you put into it (your education) and what you take away from it.
My own engineering education came from UC and UVM – I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend either, with a preference for UC because of the co-op program. You can co-op at many schools, however schools where it is mandatory (like UC and Northeastern) have a pretty good infrastructure in place.
For the record, my older son has been accepted into Miami’s Bioengineering program (with his eye on pre-med). He’s pretty excited about it, and at the moment MiamiU is a front-runner.
@guyk27 UC turns out excellent engineers! I grew up in Midland, Michigan, and worked at Dow for a bit. There were quite a few UC chemical engineers there. A HS classmate of mine went to UC on scholarship for their six-year electrical engineering co-op program. He also ended up at Dow.
Michigan Tech is also a terrific engineering school, but I just couldn’t get my son interested in Houghton.
We are getting more and more interested in Miami. We need to get up for a visit.
My daughter is currently a sophomore at Miami. Her stats were ACT 33, W GPA 4.2, lots of long term quality ECs, 9 APs (one 4, the rest 5s). Received her admission letter, honors program and full tuition OSS scholarship before Christmas that year. MU padded their offer in February with an additional $3.5k in renewable grants and scholarships. I think the admissions/scholarship thing is impossible to figure out. One factor may be that MU peeps have a very good idea of what a student might be offered in any given state and up the money depending on the stats that kid has. In our case, my DD was entitled to free tuition at any in state public so MU prolly knew they had to offer at least that to get her there.