<p>My very good friend has gotten into both Harvey Mudd and UT Honors engineering. His parents are concerned with the reputation of mudd offered in the national and global job market. Can anyone enlighten me on the status of Mudd's reputation in comparison to a university like UT Honors Engineering?</p>
<p>mudd’s reputation amongst top engineering companies is stellar. it is in a different league than ut.</p>
<p>hi swimmingjew. As Rocketda said, you do not have to worry 
She is in good hands. You might want to check all the courses offered at Austin and Mudd and compare them to see if they are similar. This is so that you get the traditional engineering education you receive in this unique LAC.</p>
<p>I largely agree with the previous two posters. Mudd’s engineering program is awesome, and employers are well aware of it. However, if he’s dead set on certain types of engineering, Mudd actually might not be the best option. I have a cousin at UT who is currently doing Petroleum Engineering, and I don’t think there are even any Petroleum Engineering classes offered at Mudd. She’s has great scholarships and has had awesome internships every summer, so she probably could have made it into Mudd if she had been interested, but Texas has the best petroleum engineering program in the nation. So…if he has specific interestes, he should definitely check out the course catalog to make sure that there are at least a few classes related to those interests (there don’t have to be a lot - Mudd’s engineering program is designed to prepare students to go into any field of engineering, regardless of the classes that they choose to take while they’re here. It sounds impossible, but apparently it works. I’m not an engineer, so I can’t elaborate on the magic…). Even better, he should come visit and talk to the professors, who will be able to give him a much better assessment. (He’ll also get the chance to meet the students, which is almost as important. The cultures at UT and Harvey Mudd are very different, so there’s a chance that he might not like it here at all)</p>
<p>hey Miru, how easy is it to get into a top grade grad school from Mudd as compared to some specialized engineering school like UT Austin? Will they factor in that the student from Austin has a much more specialized education, hence he is more fit, or will they recognize the ability of a Mudd student too?</p>
<p>I honestly can’t answer this question. I know plenty of last years alums who are in grad school, and the only person I know at UT Austin is currently a junior, so she’s not looking into that any time soon. Since I was only a freshman last year, I really wasn’t paying attention to people’s grad school options, and whether they thought they were doing better than people from state schools or not.</p>
<p>So, if anyone knows something, feel free to steal the question from me! (or do your own research…it might be useful, might not)</p>
<p>Mudd seems to do very well at sending people to Grad schools, and the grads this year appear to be doing very well for themselves (though I must admit being most impressed by a Google job offer I saw. That’s pretty awesome). I gathered that for people that want to specialize, grad school is the major option, as Mudd prepares you as a general engineer and grad school concentrates you into the desired field. But in response to the OPs question, American companies know the school’s reputation (back home in Canada, I’m maybe not so lucky)</p>