<p>I was accepted in Purdue ranked 3 in industrial engineering usnews, i was also accepted in Northeastern ranked 27 in Business which is ranked 27 on Business by businessweek with an A+ job placement and an average 55,000. I don't know how good is the job placement and the average starting salary for industrial engineering after coming out of Purdue can i get some help to make my decision thanks.</p>
<p>Stop making a decision solely based off of statistics, you’ll wind up unhappy and dissatisfied. Get PurdueEE in here and he’ll tell you a little about Purdue.</p>
<p>Purdue has some pretty good stats for industrial engineering. Here’s a link. Out of 62 graduates, only one was seeking employment and the average starting salary was 57,500. But I wouldn’t make my decision based only on these statistics. </p>
<p><a href=“Purdue CCO”>https://www.cco.purdue.edu/Student/PostGradData.shtml</a></p>
<p>I would tell you that you should make up your mind based on what you want to do, not what you want to make, but IE and Business are so similar, that it is hard to make that argument.</p>
<p>yeah i like them both and they are so similar so it basically comes down to job placement and salary</p>
<p>You should give some consideration to getting an IE degree, working for a few years, and then getting a MBA. It will definitely take a bit longer but if you’re just concerned with salary that’s probably the way to go. Also, if you decide you don’t want to go back to school you have a pretty good degree to “fall back on.”</p>
<p>Also, a lot of the job placement and salary aspect will come down to you. If you do well you will most likely get a better salary as well as more job offers. So, make sure you’re studying something you actually want to study so you can do well in school. If you pick a major because of job placement and salary only you probably won’t be as interested in it and won’t do as well, thus kind of negating the major’s advantage.</p>
<p>Do you like the kinds of jobs you will be able to do with both majors equally? What kind of job do you want? Where do you see yourself in 5, 10, 15 years? What part of the country would you like to work in?</p>
<p>I knew a few people in IE, but not very well. They seemed to enjoy and did not have any real gripes, at least as far as I knew. I recall someone saying he had a lot of good professors, but I have no idea for what classes and just how many of the professors are good.</p>
<p>Okay so I was going to attend one of the UC schools and after paying for my housing deposit, visiting the school, enrolling for summer school, and accepting to attend, I have decided not to attend this university. It’s actually one of the harder UCs to get in to but I have thought about it and I have decided that it would just be more financially and academically convenient for me to attend community college and then transfer. So my question is how do I decline my acceptance after I enrolled and sent in my SIR? Do I just call the school and tell them I am not going? If so who do I call admissions? And is there any way I can make an agreement with the school to insure me acceptance when I do decide to transfer? Well thanks and yes I feel really bad for declining my acceptance =(.</p>
<p>You should probably start by using this forum properly and creating a new thread instead of posting an off topic and random reply.</p>
<p>lol… PurduEE what did you major on? how is the Purdue as a University campus wise and socially wise, im probably going to visit it on july</p>
<p>Much like my name implies I was an EE major. I did not take any IE courses but I did have some classes in the “IE building.” I assume that relative to EE, ME, and ChemE that IE is not as popular since I very rarely met IEs in random classes. </p>
<p>I’d say the campus is nice enough, but I also wasn’t worried about attending a school that looked amazing on a postcard no matter where you took a photo. Some of the buildings are definitely a bit older but they’re mostly in good shape and some renovation has been done on the older buildings and some new buildings have gone up recently.</p>
<p>There is plenty to do… as long as you’re looking for something to do. Obviously if you sit around your apartment/dorm all day long you won’t do too much (although nothing is wrong with that if that’s what floats your boat). But, if you want to do something you will find something to do. You might need to broaden your horizons a bit but I cannot imagine anyone being completely bored at Purdue. Just because it’s literally surrounded by corn fields doesn’t mean there is nothing to do, in fact it just means that it’s rather safe. I would walk around West Lafayette at all times and never worried about anything.</p>
<p>July is, unfortunately, a somewhat bad time to visit. It won’t give you a very good sense of what Purdue is like because it will be almost dead. There will just be a few students around taking summer school classes and/or doing research.</p>
<p>Purdue is definitely not a place you want to be for undergrad or… grad or phd for that matter. Purdue tends to produce alot of incompetent engineers that don’t even understand the basics of their field. If you want a quality engineering degree from the MidWest go to UIUC. UIUC puts out superior engineers when it comes to research and real world.</p>
<p>That sounds like an unbiased opinion.</p>
<p>Obviously. That user is just going through the front page ■■■■■■■■ this site. Purdue is a very well respected university, and anyone that says otherwise completely invalidates their opinion. You can argue whether UIUC is better than Purdue, or whether Purdue is a “Top” school, but to say that it does not provide a quality education is an outright lie.</p>
<p>Purdue may be well respected, however, for all the wrong reasons. I know for a fact that they tend to produce incompetent engineers. I am entering my third years as an EE and I have friends that are going into their fourth year Purdue and do not understand SIMPLE concepts such as KVL, KCL, convulution, basic logic, etc… while maintaining 3.6+ gpas. This is not acceptable and reflects the quality of their education.</p>
<p>UIUCfinest, I think you should take your hubris elsewhere. Your making us UIUC engineers look very bad.</p>
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<p>Being an engineer is one criterion necessary (but not sufficient) to call other engineers incompetent. You are not an engineer, so if I were you, I’d reserve judgment until I was qualified to perform an analysis.</p>
<p>Your decision, as others have stated, should be primarily based on what it is you want to learn and what atmosphere you want to learn it in. Both are good schools which will give you the opportunity to begin your career on the right foot.</p>
<p>IE and business are pretty closely related, so one thing to consider is how committed you are to managing the factors of production to make a product. I look at IE as a specialization of business with a more technical bent. If less sure of wanting to go that route, I’d pursue the business degree (more flexible) with electives that lead you in the direction of where IE would take you. If planning to pursue a grad degree, you could go in either order (if switching), but IE first/MBA second would likely give you more options (as the MBA is more flexible, besides being offered in many more schools). And keep in mind that you have the option at both schools of changing your major to the other option, so starting with the more specific major (IE) would make sense to me if that’s your current leaning.</p>
<p>The two schools obviously have differences as well. If you want access to urban offerings outside of class, Northeastern gives you that. Being “in” Boston, there’s a bit of a commuter faction (for lack of a better phrase) which detracts from the “school spirit” factor. It also encourages co-op education if that appeals to you. Purdue is more isolated and self contained, but there’s plenty to do if you seek it out (many do not, for a variety of reasons). Interest in athletics is at a higher level, if that’s a consideration. And while it’s certainly not set in stone, you’re more likely to get a job near where you went to school, so keep in mind where in the country you’d prefer to be in the future.</p>
<p>Still, remember that it’s four (+) years of your life - find someplace you’ll ENJOY.</p>
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<p>Lol. your spelling is a little, well, convoluted.</p>
<p>And, well, since you are the star EE here on the boards, could you tell me what a convolution integral is and why a EE would care about such a thing?</p>
<p>I am in no way deeming myself as the “star” engineer on this forum. I am sure there are plenty of EEs on this site that have the same level of knowledge and more knowledgeable in the field. However, that does not discount my statement that Purdue tends to produce imcompetent engineers. I am sure there are a couple of engineers from Purdue that come out very well prepared but this is a rarity. My point remains that, on average, engineers from UIUC leave with an exceptionally higher quality education than their counterparts from Purdue.<br>
Also, convolution is informally thought of as a running integral and has applications in many engineering fields as well as financial models. In EE, convolution is fundamental in signal processing and analysis. For instance, if you have some signal represented by the function f(t) and send it through a filter with a response function h(t) it will produce an output signal which corresponds to the convolution f(t) * h(t).</p>
<p>While I would agree that Purdue is far from perfect has much room for improvement, I think it’s a bit inaccurate to say that UIUC is some amazing school. If it was amazing as you make it out to be, why is it not ranked up there with MIT and Stanford (or on its own playing field)? Also, somewhat sadly, the actual quality of education received is irrelevant compared to the reputation and image of the education received. So, if Purdue is so much easier and lets you slide by, as you say, and it’s considered by most everyone to be equal to UIUC, why not go to Purdue and get a higher GPA and not work as hard? </p>
<p>Let’s face it, hardly anyone truly cares about what they learn in engineering - they just see dollar signs and job opportunities at the end of the tunnel. Very few people are of the type that can hardly wait to get to class to learn the latest material or do the latest lab. So, isn’t the ultimate test of how good (or bad) a school is mostly dependent on what kind of job it will land you?</p>
<p>I’m sure there are just as many “how the hell did he make it this far” type of students at UIUC as any other school of a similar caliber. I’ve met engineering students at job interviews from many schools and I would say that most are kind of clueless and lacking personality. Also, it may very well be that someone may know EE very well but doesn’t make an effort to advertise it every waking moment.</p>