I’ve been admitted to some LACs (e.g. Hamilton, W&L) and also cooper union. Because I’m not from NY I really don’t know much about cooper union engineering. I know that their art and architechture are literally the best in nation, but I don’t know how does its engineering department compare to other universities. Is it comparable to other good engineering schools like Cornell, UIUC, Rice…?
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Using one of the schools you named above as an example, Cooper Union’s engineering program might be equivalent equivalent in scale and quality to that of Rice.
Cooper Union is an excellent engineering school with first rate facilities. It is small. It differs from the other schools mainly due to the limits of its size. It offers 4 concentrations for a major toward a degree. A school like Rice, for example, offers 8-10 within the college of engineering. A second difference is that it is not a research university and is more an analogous to a LAC but with a focus on art, architecture, and engineering instead of arts & sciences.
Coped Union is definitely a city school. Modern facilities, but located in buildings on a city street. No campus. As a native New Yorker, I like the neighborhood and there’s lots to do in NYC. You’d have to like that too because it’s definitely not a traditional college campus as in the Rice example. Not that that’s all bad. Having everything next door to each other means that you can roll out of bed in the morning, be in class in 5 minutes & grab breakfast on the way. No big campus to have to get around.
BTW, it’s engineering rates among the best in the nation for schools that degree beyond the bachelor’s. It would compare favorably with Haverford, for example, although with different strengths.
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