<p>I have a list of colleges below. Rank them from a scale of [1-10] overall on:
1. How prestigious they are
2. The QUALITY of their Education in Engineering (include all majors: MechE, BME, EE, ChemE, etc.), even if it's just one major that sticks out</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Colorado School of Mines
Georgia Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Tulane University
University of Michigan</p>
<p>Xiggi’s post made me actually laugh out loud. Poor RML.</p>
<p>It may be prudent to analyze the size of the undergraduate engineering programs before people start generalizing about how large or small certain colleges are, as they inevitably will.</p>
<p>Here is a list of the schools and their undergraduate and graduate engineering populations, as sorted by the percentage of undergraduates. </p>
<p>Most of the schools on your list have strong engineering programs and you’ll get a quality engineering education. However, each of these schools are quite different in terms of size and environment. Choose the campus environment you like best keeping in mind costs. You won’t get paid a hefty premium graduating from the top engineering schools…so return on investment needs to be considered.</p>
<p>Apply to all the schools on your list. Wait for acceptances and financial aid offers. Come back to this board when you know what the out-of-pocket costs will be for each.</p>
<p>I agree though with IBClass that if you’re in-state, Michigan Ann-Arbor is pretty tough to beat…great engineering education, widely recruited and low cost.</p>
<p>Edit to add:
I read your other thread. It is my opinion not to pigeonhole yourself by majoring in BME for undergrad. Many kids seem to be majoring in this and I don’t think the employment market has caught up to the demand. I would stick with the more traditional disciplines like mechanical, electrical or chemical…much wider employment opportunities and if your career path takes you down a biomed route, you can get a masters in BME.</p>
<p>Of course, that is a big no-no. However, I am not sure if you wanted to maintain the levity of this thread by using the word truth in the context of a post by RML.</p>
<p>^ I guess a bigger “no-no” would be a “senior member” of this board quoting a post in an irrelevant thread for the sole purpose of ridiculing another member.</p>
<p>if I ended up choosing JHU, and I do BME, but end up not wanting to do it and switching a major (whether to another engineering discipline or maybe biological sciences), would the decision of going to JHU over the other college choices be completely dumb in terms of the opportunity cost (even if JHU is not top 10 in every other engineering majors, they are still about top 20)? would the prestige of the school outweigh the quality of the engineering degree from JHU or no? at this point, im either choosing JHU or UofM and I have no idea, unless maybe CMU comes up big (the cost will be higher than UofM, but similar because of some factors).</p>
<p>I don’t understand how Carnegie Mellon or Johns Hopkins are ranked higher here when it’s universally known that Michigan has the better overall engineering program.</p>