<p>How does Northwestern fare in engineering? Is it worth it to major in engineering at Northwestern? Would an engineering degree from NU be respected? If you know any rankings in specific, your input will be appreciated...
Also, any other rankings for Medill and other schools in NU are welcome as well. I keep getting mixed info from the websites I search.</p>
<p>Really a lot of it depends on what type of engineering you are. </p>
<p>For instance, NU Material Science is ranked top 5 in ugrad and grad.</p>
<p>US News ranking:
Biomedical: 12th
Chemical: 17th
Civil: 10th
Computer: 25th
Electrical: 31st
Environmental: 19th
Industrial & Mangement Sci: 6th
Material Sci: 2nd
Mechanical: 12th</p>
<p>By the way, there's the so-called overall ranking which ranks NU 21st while USC, which has no top-10 specialty and lower peer/recruiter assessment scores, is ranked the 7th. </p>
<p>The overall ranking has a lot of flaws. Two significant categories favor those with either strong EE or large EE department (relative to other depts within that engineering school) or both: fraction of faculty in NAE and research expenditure per faculty. NAE loves granting membership to EE professors. EE projects tend to be more expensive than, say, environmental or industrial engg projects. USC has 54 EE profs and 25 comp profs (computer is usually tied to EE) while its other depts have 10-20 profs only. NU's EE has only 17 profs while its mechanical has 24, civil and material both have 21.</p>
<p>People interested in grad school don't really look at this overall ranking anyway. They look at the ranking of the specialty they are interested in.</p>
<p>so since NU's engineering isn't like top 10 or anything, is it still difficult to get into?</p>
<p>Yes. Just like Yale's or Duke's engineering is harder to get into than NU's even their engineering is ranked lower.</p>