<p>Given all the commotion spencer and all have been causing on this site about Dartmouth being a sub-standard school, I decided to check it out. I mean the Tuck school has been praised widely by WSJ and was even called the new breed of MBA Programs that focuses more on soft skills.</p>
<p>So as I stumbled onto the Dartmouth Engineering site (I'm a potential Engineering major) and wow! I didn't get it at first and had to read it a couple of times.</p>
<p>The interdisciplinary approach is AMAZING!</p>
<p>Only last week I was thinking how all the facets of academia need to come together to make this world truly amazing.</p>
<p>I don't care that I don't see Dartmouth in any of the engineering rankings, I want to apply.</p>
<p>But before I do I have a few questions.</p>
<p>I want to work in the biopharmaceutical industry, how is Dartmouth's placement in this arena?</p>
<p>I'm a little confused by the admissions, so to get a BE I have a apply in my Sophomore year and spend Junior and Senior years (in college of course) at Dartmouth, and the BA is just a liberal arts degree with some Engineering classes?</p>
<p>It sucks that Engineering admissions is a bit on the liberal arts side, I really want to go there to experience the interdisciplinary approach in Engineering.</p>
<p>Seems everyone is pre-occupied with spencer ;)</p>
<p>To be honest, Dartmouth probably isn't exactly the best place to go for a job in biopharmaceuticals. I wouldn't go to Dartmouth for engineering either. Your state flagship might be a better place for those career options.</p>
<p>Glad he's doing some good</p>
<p>To answer some of your questions, dartmouth's placement into professional settings seem to be very good. From what I've read, even with a liberal arts education, most dartmouth students choose to become professionals rather than academics, even though they could do equally well in both fields. However, one advantage to this is that the alumni network becomes very useful, moreso than if it were grounded in academia. Around 25% of all alumni volunteer to advise graduating students on their professions, so I'm sure you could find some alumni in the biopharmaceutical industry that could help you out. </p>
<p>As for your second question, you don't declare your major until the second year, and you could change majors easily (unlike at schools like columbia and penn, where they separate their engineering schools from their A&S colleges), provided that you complete the corresponding courses. The college offers degrees of AB or BEng, the latter of which will certify you to work as a engineer in the industry. While the college professes that the BE is usually done in five years instead of four, if you are ambitious enough, it is certainly possible to do it in four. Dartmouth believes that a liberal arts education is essential to all students, and therefore demands a heavy distribution requirement and prerequisites even from non-engineers. Engineering doesn't get more interdisciplinary anywhere else.</p>
<p>In response to the above post, if you want to work in pharmaceuticals, you'd probably want to get a Masters in Engineering anyways. It is very common for students to head to top engineering schools such as MIT, Stanford, and Cal for their graduate degrees.</p>
<p>Thanks for the interesting posts Dionysus and BigBrother. So, does Darmouth release statistics that show how many major in Engineering (so that I can get a rough idea of the number of alumni that are into such things)?</p>
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<p>Sure:</p>
<p><a href="http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3300&profileId=7%5B/url%5D">http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3300&profileId=7</a></p>
<p>I'm not sure how updated this is, but it should give you a fairly accurate picture. I strongly suspect that most Social Science majors are in Econ/Gov't.</p>
<p>Thanks sybbie. So I guess it's safe to say around 1% choose Chemical Engineering, so usually it's 1 or 2 kids that go into Biopharma then.</p>