<p>I got accepted to MSU with Electrical Engineering. I won't lie, MSU's on the lower end of my list of schools I want to go to because it's not highly ranked in Engineering. That said, ranking usually don't matter that much for engineering. So my question is:how is the engineering department? How are the teachers and facilities? Does it feel like the engineering department was just added as an afterthought or that the school actually tries to make it great?</p>
<p>I don’t know very much about the engineering department, but I have a couple friends in engineering and they have no serious complaints about the quality of education they are getting. If you can get into the residential college program for engineering (I think in Wilson hall) as a freshman they have really nice computer labs specifically equipped for engineering majors, among other benefits. It is definitely a solid program and there are a lot of research opportunities at MSU within various engineering fields. It’s not “one of the best” but as you said rankings for engineering don’t matter that much - you will be relatively successful no matter what you do if you pass your engineering exams. Also, MSU career fairs recruit a lot of engineering majors across all sorts of sectors…there is even an engineering fair catered towards students. This has to be reflective of the fact that MSU engineering students do pretty well for themselves. Just 1 example - one of my MSU friends in engineering that graduated now works for Raytheon, a sweet government contractor - making quite a nice chunk of cash.</p>
<p>I’m currently a student at MSU in chemical engineering, and I would definitely agree with the person before about how the college of engineering isn’t an afterthought at Michigan State. They have a lot of support for incoming engineering students with the residential program, and they have a great career center that helps students get internships (especially with the career fair they put on every semester). I’d say that’s one of the things they do the best job with, getting co-ops or internships for engineering students. My experience with looking at rankings was that most undergraduate programs a very similar throughout the country, and that it’s mostly graduate school where the rankings have more weight. The professors are always looking for undergrads to work in their labs (they’re cheaper than grad students) and offer all kinds of help for students through office hours and setting up study rooms. I can’t speak directly for the electrical engineering program, but if it’s anything like chemical, you’ll definitely be successful after college with a MSU degree.</p>
<p>I am MSU grad from 1990 and MSU was always good with placing engineering students in jobs and internships. Hell, I was a math major at MSU and was still placed into a software engineering job via MSU’s career fairs.</p>
<p>Never went to MSU but met many along the way (engineers) that did very well in life. It is a good engineering school. I am not 100% convinced it is where you go to some point, but what you do in the long run. Best wishes</p>