<p>title says it all... any good engineering schools out there that aren't cutthroat? just curious.</p>
<p>CMU is not 'cutthroat' but simply because curves are non-existent. So it may be brutal in another aspect I guess...</p>
<p>engineering.....laid back?</p>
<p>thas like saying psychology.....high paying job.</p>
<p>don't really go together</p>
<p>well that's why i said (relatively) :-P</p>
<p>NYIT is pretty laid back, they will get you a great job also. Very small school, so every body knows everybody.</p>
<p>Its on 59th street, I go their. Its about $20k a year and they give a ton of Fincial aid.</p>
<p>got any questions PM me.</p>
<p>Polytechnic is very hard, prior to 1995 it was rated as the 3rd best engineering school in the USA. I dont know what happened, but they are know for having the hardest math, in the undergraduate level. They call it poly math. They have some pretty crazt staistics if ya find them on the site. I think 1 in every 5 engineers in America, went to Polytechnic. Its a great school, but very hard.</p>
<p>Certainly ranked up their on the Top.</p>
<p>Rice. Mudd. There are many others, too. They're <em>hard</em>, but they're laid-back. You're not going to find an engineering school that isn't <em>hard</em>, but there are a lot of engineering schools that are laid back.</p>
<p>Crash, I have many friends who went into Engineering. In fact, about 75% of the students from my high school went on to study Engineering, most of them at highly ranked programs like Cornell, Illinois, Michigan and Texas. Some even went to Cal, Caltech, MIT and Stanford. Overall, I observed that Engineers are usually team players and they tend to work together. So I cannot really think of any Engineering program that is really "cutthroat". Most of them are pretty laid Back. Of the schools I know of, Cornell, Harvey Mudd, Michigan, Rice, Stanford and Texas are the most laid back. That does not mean those schools aren't intense. The intensity of those programs is pretty extreme.</p>
<p>Even if the students are team players and are willing to help each other, there's still the class curve which makes getting good grades cutthroat.</p>
<p>I agree and I clearly stated that the intensity of most good Engineering program is extreme. My point is that the competition is usually at an individual level, not between the students.</p>
<p>i've heard that the engineering program @ cornell & berkeley are pretty cutthroat (in terms of student/student competition).</p>
<p>Come to the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith. We are not a high stress enviroment and the professors have tons of office hours to help you. We have an excellent program that focuses on student learning. Of course it's not easy - there's still tons of work expected, but I don't think the enviroment is super stressful or competitive. Students help each other a lot here.</p>
<p>Tufts. The workload is incredibly hard, but the students all love each other and there is absolutely no competition.</p>
<p>Olin is pretty laid back. we were all working on solid works last night in the lounge but having a blast at the same time (yes, friday night we were working, we were all social around 12 though).</p>