Northwestern Engineering vs UMich engineering

<p>Alexandre ... thanks for your post. In retrospect, we should have gone to Michigan over his spring break back in March while he was waiting for responses from other schools. Now, of course, it is too late to visit. Duke does not offer ChemE, only BioMed, MechE, EE and Civil. It is good to hear that you know someone who graduated EE from Duke and is now at Stanford. My main concern is that my son's choice does not limit him in the future and that he has a good path forward whether he chooses graduate engineering, going into the workforce, and/or getting an MBA. I have spoken to several of the engineering deans and professors at Duke and have tried to ask the right questions about where their grads go. Of the MechEs it seems that 1/3 go to consulting and financial firms (like Goldman Sachs), the rest go to engineering consulting companies or work directly as an engineer for an employer. A small number go to engineering grad school. I was told that last year three went to Stanford (one deferred for a year to go to Oxford first, one went to Stanford Aero and one to Stanford Mechanical), one went to Michigan for Materials. And one went to Law School at Harvard.</p>