<p>Which are the most competitive schools within UMD? (Business, Engineering, etc)</p>
<p>smith school of business and clark school of engineering</p>
<p>i think engineering is more competitive than business.</p>
<p>Both are highly competitive. Both rank very high among the nation. Bullet graduated from UMD engineering, not Clark and it about killed him to just graduate. It is not an easy course load, so be proud either way, engineering or clark you’re still very good.</p>
<p>The main thing here is business and engineering are 2 different things. A person who is successful in business typically thinks differently than the successful engineer and vise a verse. I have seen and known great engineers who had problems in human resource courses, I breezed through it, but ask me to figure out a circuit board and you will be lucky if I don’t short circuit a city</p>
<p>Did Bullet take an extra year to graduate from engineering and was the course load sooo difficult that he was studying for MOST of the time?</p>
<p>Bullet took an extra yr, back then engineering was 4, not 5. AND the course load was hard, but he also loved the life there(football and BBall). I think for him and many students in a large program you are taught by TAs it becomes frustraing if there is a language barrier and by the size of the classes until you are much higher up. Bruin left UMD b/c of the size of classes, he said he had one as large as 400 (I think), Bullet recalled it being common for classes to be 200+. DS has had only one course that large.</p>
<p>NOW BEFORE YOU ALL FREAK…remember the majority of the time in big classes you will be taught by a TA, so it is broken down to a smaller class size. </p>
<p>Clark has prestige and one reason it gets it is for their selectiveness. Being selected also means they expect you to get it faster. You are the top of the top, and they want to maintain that std. Graduating from just UMDCP in engineering is still impressive. Not too shabby to be accepted into one of the top public schools in the nation.</p>