<p>Hello, my current list of schools are all very large public schools except for Case Western (reach), and I really want to apply to small/private schools.</p>
<p>Most private engineering schools have an awful male to female ratio, such as</p>
<p>RPI, Worchester etc.</p>
<p>And I'm looking for at least 60-40. Also, I'm looking for schools in the north-ish area (IL and up)</p>
<p>PS - What really throws me off with college research, is a lot of schools are said to be great by people like here etc, but I look at 2 lists of "top 100 undergrad engineering schools" to determine their status and they don't seem to fit. Such as Case Western, rated around 40, when Iowa state is 42, and Ohio State is 28 or something. All the schools on my current list are 42 and higher is ranking, Iowa State being my safety school.</p>
<p>Sorry I am so picky, these are my final few steps of my official research.</p>
<p>Which lists of top 100 undergrad engineering schools are you using? I’d like to see them.</p>
<p>Small engineering schools are almost always male-dominated unfortunately, though the schools are always trying hard to change that. I know WPI makes progress every year, but the ratio is still not great. There is a larger problem of attracting young women into engineering professions in general
An exception is Olin College of Engineering which is TINY. Perhaps Harvey-Mudd and Rose-Hulman???</p>
<p>Anyway, to get a better balance, you need to look at engineering programs that are part of school with broader offerings. Some examples are Tufts, Union. Bucknell, Lafayette etc. And of course the ratios are better at large universities as well, but that doesn’t seem to be what you are looking for.</p>
<p>rose hulman and harvey mudd are not on both of those sites, same with olin. I plan to Major in mechanical and possibly minor in materials. But thank you!</p>
<p>That second list has nothing on it that identifies WHO compiled it and what criteria they used! It is some random website in China. And your other list is a few years out of date. </p>
<p>You should look at Rose Hulman, Olin and Harvey Mudd, - they are highly regarded engineering schools, no matter what your lists say. US News and World Report has these schools listed in the top 10 engineering schools (where a PhD is not offered). Schools in that category are SMALL engineering schools (what you are looking for) SOLELY focused on teaching undergrads. US News has a separate list for engineering schools where PhD is the highest degree offered, that has all the usual suspects (MIT, Stanford etc. etc.).
If you are into using rankings to help guide your search, then at least use the current version of the US News. Their rankings of engineering schools are solely based on peer assessments. And at least they are not anonymous ;-)</p>
<p>Maybe it’s worth some quick investigation of the lists. There’s nothing absolute about them; they’re arbitrary, created on the basis of certain criteria. Some of those criteria may be totally irrelevant to the undergraduate learning experience. Before you accept the results as some sort of gospel, find out more about the derivation.</p>
<p>For example, say the pizza parlors in your area started running ads claiming that “we’re number 1”. If five different parlors made this claim, you might wonder who judged them and what the criteria were. There are a lot of possible factors: crispiness of crust, spice of tomato sauce, availability of unusual toppings, freshness of pepperoni, and so on. If you’re allergic to tomato sauce and don’t like pepperoni, those criteria don’t help you choose your dinner. Also, if the rater is the Marvelous Mozzarella Company, can you guess what the biases might be?</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd, olin, and Bucknell don’t have materials engineering, and harvey and olin are a little too far of a reach for me and rose hulman is 80-20 male to female</p>
<p>Here you go: all 22 schools that have materials engineering and have less than 10,000 students are in northern states (IL and above from coast to coast). I did not specify a preference for city/suburbs/town/country. You may have to cut and paste this link because it is so long.
[College</a> Navigator - Search Results](<a href=“College Navigator - Search Results”>College Navigator - Search Results)</p>
<p>You are going to run into a problem trying to find a bunch of schools that meet ALL your criteria and that you can get into and that you can afford. Start researching these schools, then when you have a manageable list create a spreadsheet. Schools on one axis, criteria on the other. Put weights on the criteria because they are not all equal! Your intended majors are most important, so that’s a 10, the coolness of the nearby city may be a 5, intelligence of student body, food, etc. Whatever factors matter to you. Then rate each school for each factor and run the numbers.
Once you’ve visited some likely candidates, add a factor for “gut feel” - it may affect the results…</p>
