<p>Anyone got thoughts/opinions about engineering at purdue</p>
<p>thanks for advice</p>
<p>To put it simply, Purdue is a school thats easy to get into, but hard to graduate from. The intro classes are "weed out" courses. If you don't know your stuff, you're not gonna make it. Besides that, the school has an excellent reputation in engineering and I've heard that if you make it through your first two years, you'll be fine.</p>
<p>Also look up information about the surrounding area and life there. It definitely is not for everyone. It was one of my top choice schools, yet due to financial issues I was not able to attend.</p>
<p>Purdue is a solid engineering program. I think it's safe to say graduating from any ABET accredited engineering school will take some hard work and dedication. There are a few majors in engineering that might not need as much work, hmm actually just one: industrial and systems engineering :)</p>
<p>I'm currently attending Purdue for electrical engineering. Lemme just say that first year is an absolute joke. Second year is not too bad but be wary that sometimes the EE department decides to pull out uber hard exams compared to what you see on the practice exams. That's the only time when you really gotta know your stuff. Again, lemme reiterate. First year is easy. Second year... exams may get you but your first year GPA should cover wutever goes wrong.</p>
<p>How easy/difficult is it to get into Purdue from out-of-state? Right now it's hovering around the top of my college list (around PSU and Illinois).</p>
<p>still easy from out-of-state</p>
<p>I heard Purdue is one of the harder engineering colleges to graduate from. I do not know, however, if this is due to less selective student body or very brutal grading system. Nonetheless, engineering degree from Purdue is very highly regarded.</p>
<p>like with any large public school it's pretty much that they dont care if u fail, because there are a couple hundred people with the same major as u. g tech is definitely like this.</p>
<p>Son applied and was accepted to Purdue as his "safety" school and he was out of state, but applied there first, because of rolling admissions. He was offered a scholarship, but in the end declined. I think the 30,000 student pop. was somewhat daunting and as a previous poster mentioned, the school is the town. But, I know that it is a highly regarded eng school--I believe that one of the former astronauts was just there this week dedicating a building or something. I also think that most schools with eng programs use the first year and possibly some of the second year as "weed-out" years. Try to visit the campus-son was prepared to attend, if he had not received other offers of admission.</p>