<p>I got accepted into these four schools and i want to know which is the best school to go to in terms of job placement and salary potential after graduation. i want to major in computer engineering. </p>
<p>I'm leaning towards nyu poly but is it worth paying its tuition? </p>
<p>I would have to commute to Poly, Njit and nyit and dorm at rutgers</p>
<p>i will receive any opinions.</p>
<p>thank you</p>
<p>NYU -Poly is a great school for CompSci and computer engineering and many employers are actively hiring poly students in these majors. I suspect the salary will not have too much of a difference coming from any of these schools if you are seeking work in nyc. This should not be used as a criterion for selecting a particular school.</p>
<p>so i should go to poly out of the four?</p>
<p>It’s my opinion that poly is a better choice. NYU is pouring a lot of money into the school and more research grants are being given to our professors. By the time you graduate( 5 years?) it will be nyu’s engineering school and not just some affiliation between two institutes.</p>
<p>NYIT is not even comparable to CCNY.
NYU POLY has a lot of money, that’s all.
NJIT - fine.</p>
<p>Rutgers is a great school for engineering, I have seen some really smart people go there. Out of your list, it is probably the most well known engineering school among the engineering community. It has a very diverse engineering community and a great faculty. Plus dorming is great since you will be able to meet some great people that way.</p>
<p>NJIT is another great school and I know that it offers A LOT of financial aid to people with great GPAs and SATs. I know three people who go there on full scholarships - so I would think this would be a great school for very cheap.</p>
<p>I’d go to Rutgers or NJIT. NYU Poly or NYIT are not significantly better than those schools. Save yourself some money and go to the state school. Go to Rutgers and live in the dorm (I’m assuming you mean the New Brunswick campus)</p>
<p>BEFORE ANYONE CONSIDERS nyu-Poly, they should understand the status of the school. This is factually documented at: [the</a> nyu-Poly Affiliation](<a href=“http://mysite.verizon.net/vzew7yqj/]the”>http://mysite.verizon.net/vzew7yqj/)</p>
<p>The present nyu-Poly is only a temporary entity, and part of branding effort to improve it during a probationary stage, while it attempts to qualify to become a school of NYU. If it fails to do so, then nyu completes the land-grab at no cost. It is NOT part of nyu, it is “separate and apart from” under the terms of the “Affiliation.” </p>
<p>In any case, nyu’s expansion plans do not make any specific commitment regarding its future intentions for Poly or the Brooklyn Metrotech site. Read the campus newspaper’s April articles especially page 1, 14, and the editorial, which points out the concerns:
<a href=“Home | NYU Tandon School of Engineering”>Home | NYU Tandon School of Engineering;
<p>Poly is a relatively good school, but the NYU affiliation shouldn’t be a factor in the decision. As others have noted, it’s just a name and nothing more. What it has done, however, is seemingly increase interest in the school over the past few years (at least based on what I’ve seen here on CC).</p>
<p>Poly is still an excellent school, but increased “interest” in it may be as much from the controversy over the “affiliation,” as well as the publicity from the nyu branding effort.</p>
<p>Any prospective student should be concerned about nyu’s intentions, and Polytechnic’s future evolvement or demise, since nyu has NOT made any actual financial investment after its acquistion of Polytech, and it is not bound to maintain or preserve the Polytechic name longer than ten years.</p>
<p>Even the Poly president avoided the word “Polytechnic” in his reply to the campus newspaper’s and students’ concerns about nyu’s expansion plans and intentions it.</p>
<p>Although students have the opportunity to choose the name shown on their diploma until 2011, they are opting for Polytechnic Inst of nyu vs Polytechnic University … based on name recognition and future uncertainty for Poly’s survival, despite a preference for the latter name! </p>
<p>A rose by any other name may still be a rose, but Polytechnic by any other name would not be recognized as any continuation of the former Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, the second oldest engineering school in the United States!</p>
<p>I don’t follow why prospective students should care. </p>
<p>There will be AN engineering school located at Metrotech. Whether it’s Polytech or a new school of NYU doesn’t make much of a difference for people without any allegiances so far. Logically, NYU would not build a completely new school from scratch; they’ll probably carry over the professors and already enrolled students.</p>
<p>^^Well said</p>
<p>Further to above statements, a prospective student might like to consider that nyu-Poly EXISTS AS A TEMPORARY, TRANSITIONAL INSTITUTION ON PROBATION, and it’s future is tenuous !! This affects what school he might graduate from, since it is potentially not the one at which he started. </p>
<p>Regardless of name or location, there is little doubt that nyu would create anything less than a world class institution, and the affiliation has provisions relating to tenured Poly faculty as part of the deal to get the faculty to go along with the affiliation. </p>
<p>However, nyu’s intentions are obscure about its options in and around Metrotech. (Notice, I did not say “P L A N S.” !!! ) The latest “NYU 2031” release also created grave concerns on Poly’s campus regarding its future! There IS likely to be SOME nyu facility at Metrotech, but there is no guarantee of precisely what it will be. The nyu site, NYU 2031 discusses Metrotech and surrounds as an optional remote location.</p>
<p>Further background and documentation is available through links in a July 11th reply, above.</p>
<p>I do not see the point of acquiring an “already” established engineering school, eliminate it and rebuild another "new’ engineering school with "new ’ structures, faculty and facilities. That would be dumb coming from NYU.</p>
<p>dko, they may put up a new building that’s bigger. I don’t see them replacing the entire faculty though.</p>
<p>If you would care to enlighten yourselves, read NYU 2031 to see what “dumb” nyu’s intentions are, and why it acquired Poly. At this point, your bantering back and forth reveals and confirms your lack of knowledge about the whole scenario.</p>
<p>^^Sir, given my situation, I will say that I am pretty versed into that affiliation process. I also think that, you can draw any conclusion you want after looking at NYU 2031 but one think is 100% sure, they will still have an engineering school by then.</p>
<p>I don’t have any connection with NYU or Poly, but I read NYU2031 the 2nd day it was published. </p>
<p>Again, I don’t see how this situation with NYU negatively affects prospective students as long as they view Poly isolated from NYU.</p>
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Lies and salamanders. 
They’re renovating the main hallway on the first floor. It’ll be done by September; be sure to check us out again then. We welcome cynics and the nonbelievers; we are an engineering school after all! :)</p>
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Lol, exactly. I actually work at the Admissions office at NYU-Poly, so I can pretty confidently say that from what <em>I</em> myself have seen, the only people who care about the NYU name were people who were already applying to NYU. If they’re rejected or waitlisted, they find comfort in NYU’s good name haha. If they’re accepted, they check us out for our new 3-2 degree (I think it’s 3-2!) between NYU and Poly.</p>
<p>Lol, someone said NYU-Poly will be ~gone~ in 2 years? LOL. Come on, who will allow it? Not even NYU would be such a golddigger as to purchase Poly and, what, turn it into the Brooklyner (the tallest building in Brooklyn; it’s this new hotel)? And what will happen to the students if NYU does “disappear” palalala Poly? well then. I guess they get moved to NYU-proper in Manhattan. On the flip side, all evidence shows that NYU is expanding; another example of this is Abu Dhabi…</p>
<p>But enough about ONE affiliation. This thread was originally about Poly vs. Rutrut vs. NJIT vs. NYIT. I applied to Poly and NJIT among a few other schools, and I’m from New Jersey. I got a full ride (including housing) from NJIT, but I told myself that not only was I NOT through with exploring New York, but I also loved the sincerity, modesty, and closeness I saw at Poly. I just look for what I like and can reasonably afford.</p>
<p>This guy probably already made his choice, but I bet you anything he took financial aid into account…not name. haha</p>
<p>Although the hallway makes the first impression and the renovation is a welcome cosmetic improvement, **IT ISN’T nyu’s money! **</p>
<p>A provision in the Affiliation Agreement expressly states that NYU shall not be obligated to divert any funds from its tuition or existing donor base or its endowment to Polytech.</p>
<p>The Agreement allows Polytech to borrow up to $50 million dollars from NYU over a period of five (5) years . . . conditioned upon, inter alia, Polytech securing such loans by its air/development rights and any other security that may be reasonably required. With the exception of this provision, Polytech receives no additional sums from NYU.</p>
<p>. . . the aforementioned are inequitable considering the other terms of the Agreement which restrict Polytechs autonomy as an institution and gives NYU a tremendous amount of control over Polytech.</p>