<p>I was very fortunate to get into Princeton, MIT, and Penn M&T, as the title of this thread suggests. I regard each school very highly. However, I have to make a decision. Can anyone help me out? What's the logical choice?
(I'm interested in both engineering and economics/business. I was surprised to learn that Princeton is actually pretty good for engineering.)</p>
<p>I would take Princeton out of the running between those three because Princeton doesn’t have a business department or a very good economics department as compared to the other two. MIT has a top five undergraduate economics and business department. Penn has the best undergraduate business school in the world and also good economics and engineering departments. The M&T program gives you excellent advising and career opportunities, much better than MIT, unless you are planning to go on to graduate school, in which case MIT would be better. Other than those considerations, you should visit both campuses and talk to the program staff at the M&T program at Penn.</p>
<p>All things being equal in terms of finances, the order I would go with is Penn M&T, MIT, and Princeton if I am interested in both in Engineering and business equally.</p>
<p>If I was interested a lot more in Engineering, especially Computer engineering/CS with some minor like status for business, I would go MIT, M&T and Princeton.</p>
<p>If you want the best job after graduation take M&T (and it will most likely be business). If you want the best education, go to MIT. If you are not entirely sure what you want to pursue and are flexible go to Princeton.</p>
<p>Congratulations on your choices! They are 3 very different schools as my d visited all 3. How does the BSE (engineering degree) part of the Penn M&T work? Does the student choose between Chemical Engineering, Electrical etc.? I think it’s the best of both worlds for what you describe you want.</p>