Metallurgical engineering

College Search & Selection
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Hey guys! Anyone having a clue as to the best university for metallurgical engineering??( in terms of undergrad course)

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Here is a lost of programs

http://www.schoolchoices.org/colleges/major/377

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Colorado School of Mines, South Dakota School of Mines, Montana Tech, Missouri Tech, Penn State, University of Utah, to name a few. What state do you live in and what can you afford?

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Thanks…
Basically I am an international student. My family is well off so money won’t be an issue.

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Dont the ivies offer metallurgical engineering??

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It’s not a common major. I only know one metallurgical engineer (my dad) and have never met any my age majoring in it.

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As a general rule the best US engineering schools are not Ivies. They are either flagship State Universities such as Penn State or Purdue (merely as examples) or engineering schools such as the ones I mentioned above, and MIT, Caltech, Georgia Tech, Olin, Harvey Mudd, etc, etc. If you are interested in what the Ivies offer feel free to look it up on their websites rather than rely on others to do the work for you.

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Another major that you could potentially consider would be Materials Science / Engineering, with a concentration in doing something with metals. I have a friend who is a MatSci major with said concentration, and she describes her major as, essentially, metallurgy.

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Thanks!!

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Re Ivies, I had a friend at Penn who majored in metallurgy and has done quite well for himself. Not sure how popular it is today, but they still have a materials science and engineering major: http://www.mse.seas.upenn.edu/

If you’re looking for a safety, Alabama has the major as well: http://mte.eng.ua.edu/ And they recently built a new foundry:

http://uanews.ua.edu/2013/04/ua-to-open-foundry/

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Here is a search engine that will save some time.

http://www.findengineeringschools.org/Search/search_home.htm

Here are the metalurgical engineering programs

http://www.findengineeringschools.org/Search/Majors/metal.htm

Here are the Mat Sci programs (that might have metallurgy concentrations)

http://www.findengineeringschools.org/Search/Majors/materials.htm

The Ivies, minus Cornell (which is also a State Land Grant University) tend to stress theory over applied theory. This approach tends to be better suited to an academic career track than an industrial career track. That is why you will see some Ivies ranked relatively highly via polls of academics and at the same time hear people in industry ranking them lower.

A number of Ivies call their degrees “Engineering Science” or “Applied Math” to reflect this more theoretical approach. That is also the reason there are a reasonable number of Ivies on the Material Science list above.

Yale and Brown were originally State Land Grant Universities, but they had that status revoked. Harvard attempted to improve its engineering department via a hostile takeover of MIT in the early 1900’s, but the effort was thwarted :slight_smile:

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Bodangles and ThatRunnerKid are right. At several universities Materials Science Engineering IS the Metallurgical major. This is the case at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, for example. The welding and metalworks clubs at Mines are very popular.

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Apparently at South Dakota Mines they call the degree Metallurgical Engineering & Material Science.

http://www.sdsmt.edu/Academics/Degrees/Metallurgical-Engineering/

It shows up under both headings in the search engine, which is good… I have always wondered if the search engine was able to pick up non-standard names of programs…

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Thanks a lot all!

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HELLO!!! ok i get that i’m late to this thread but not tooo late. I personally am a Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Major. I start this fall!