Hey CC,
I was wondering if any of you guys know any private colleges that are good at engineering specifically mechanical or electrical other than the three listen above. I was perusing the list and saw how 7/10 top engineering schools are public so do you know any private colleges and good at engineering for undergrad and have good research opportunities, student life, design teams etc.
Thanks You
Princeton, Yale, RPI, Cornell, CMU, Case Western Reserve, Northwestern, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Rose-Hulman, Vanderbilt, Columbia, Rice, Rochester, Notre Dame, UPenn, USC, Brown, Duke, Bucknell, Harvey Mudd
You mean like Carnegie Mellon or Case Western? Notre Dame? Try looking at the ABET accreditation list.
UT
Thank You. My question is, however, do they compare to UT Austin Engineering Honors because that is the in- state for us. Would you guys go to UT or the specific private colleges you guys stated?
The common wisdom is that there is no need to go into debt for an engineerng degree–get a degree where you will also be able to do summer internships or reserach during the school year and you should be able to get a decent job at engineering before you graduate. Our S attended USoCal on a nice merit award for Electrical Engineering. He did summer internships and also worked for a prof and was an author on several publications. He also was active in several activities he enjoyed on campus.
The major advantage I see with many private universities which have strong engineering programs, over a highly ranked phD granting school like UT Austin is that most of the classes will be far smaller, particularly at the intro level. For instance, at say the University of Tulsa, a pretty decent private engineering focused university, only 2.4% of classes have more than 50 people. Compare that to the University of Texas - Austin where 25.9% have more than 50 students. This could likely mean that even your upper division engineering courses, such as thermodynamics and numerical methods could have upwards of 70 people in them, although if that’s important to you, you should check with the Cockrell School to find out course specific class sizes.
If you’re someone who likes the ability to ask the professor questions on demand rather than in a help session or office hours, the small class sizes may be of enormous benefit. However if you don’t mind a lecture style format, which is what the majority of engineering and affiliated courses will have, than you would likely prefer UT Austin given its overall excellent student body, tremendously deep resources, and excellent recruiting.
There’s also a difference in the community sense between a mega sized university like UT and one like TU which has just under 3,500 undergraduates.
Olin College is a unique one you might find you really like (or really dislike). They also offer a 1/2 tuition scholarship to all students.
Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, & Northwestern.
You are asking - which is a better fruit? - An apple or an orange. There are many factors to consider and I suggest that you explore both routes if you can financially and acedemically
by they way - on another thread you wrote that you got into Princeton/CalTech and CMU - what is up?
Are you trying to transfer?
Check the list of AITU members; private colleges that have engineering schools. Member institutions include Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Illinois Institute of Technology, among others.
If you looked at my posts you will also see who this is directed at. It is also general curiosity…
not sure what you mean about your posts but
my comment still seems pertinent
You are asking - which is a better fruit? - An apple or an orange. There are many factors to consider and I suggest that you explore both routes if you can financially and acedemically
I can see no earthly reason to pay full freight at a school like Cornell when your B would be in-state for UT (if that’s what your cryptic message meant).