I got accepted into the Macaulay honors program for City College and their engineering school. At the same time I got accepted into NYU Poly for engineering which i would have to pay $22.5k annually (I have the money for NYU so no loans will be involved here). I would be dorming at City College at their Towers and commuting to NYU Poly by car which is about a 20-30 min ride. I need help in deciding which school is worth it the most and will help me find the best possible job after graduation while also having an overall great college experience.
Don’t go to Poly.
Regardless of what Poly’s site tells you, they are barely a part of NYU and the Payscale ranking is a nonverifiable biased ranking system b/c its based off of self reported salaries <- inherently flawed if a statistics is going to be based off self-reporting factos.
Poly is a really shady school, history of illegit activities in grad programs and they select similarly shady sites that supposed ranks them higher than MIT in an effort to trick students into believing they are reputable.
Macaulay will give you a greater advantage and NYU’s brand won’t do anything if you’re in Poly.
Macaulay has a better name than Poly, with no cost.
Poly never changed other than getting a NYU tacked to its front, and employers who have been in NYC know that. Granted that NYU is really prestigious but it won’t mean anything when they see you’re in Poly.
Poly is separated geographically from NYU and they don’t have the same prestige as the rest of NYU’s schools. Less likely/motivated to use NYU facilities you fully paid for. Dining halls/food at poly are much worse than the main campus.
The merger was actually quite known in the New York area, and your degree won’t say NYU, it’ll say NYU Poly so you can’t actually weasel out of the Poly part and employers will ask about it if you don’t include it.
Macaulay is much more selective than Poly(60 - 80% acceptance rate) and many people in my HS saw it as a engineering BMCC(community college) sort of school and even after the merger they still do.
If an employer saw two applicants Poly vs Macaulay, they’d definitely pick Macaulay. But since there aren’t many engineers in New York, eventually the Poly may scrape by some low level job.
I’ve known many people who want and did transfer out of Poly(I did) either to one of NYU’s main schools or other alternatives.
Plus if you even tried telling people that you went to NYU, at first they’ll be impressed but if they ask the manhattan one and you say Poly, people will smirk or laugh at you :)) (thats how bad the rep is)
I disagree with the poster above in his/her searing criticism of NYU Poly, which, it should be noted, is only his/her only post on this entire forum.
Comparing BMCC and NYUPoly is… baffling. As for what a HS student knows about how an employer would choose an engineer… while obviously, not much, this type of comments from HS students is common and adults typically explain how it really works. Let’s say the name of your college doesn’t matter, what you did there is the only thing that matters.
Macaulay doesn’t have a “better name” than NYU Poly, outside of NYC Macaulay isn’t known. It doesn’t mean it’s a bad program and in this case I really think OP should consider Macaulay because of the “dorming” experience, but NYU is a very strong brand and has poured money into NYU Poly. Since NYU Poly is affordable without loans, can you ask NYU if they’re revise their offer (and FA) if you were to live on campus?
Living on campus is an educational experience in itself, which would make Macaulay a better choice.
Thanks guys a really appreciate the input. I plan on studying electrical engineering and I’m wondering if my decision between these 2 schools will greatly affect my chances of finding a good job after graduation.
As long as both are ABET accredited then there is little to no difference between the two. You’ll get offered the same jobs and the same salary.