<p>Which school will you choose if you are admitted by Gatech, Purdue and Rose Hulman IT? (A ME Major, international student)</p>
<p>Rose-Hulman IT, personal opinion though.</p>
<p>I think it all just depends on your personality. I would choose Purdue I think if it was for undergrad. If it was grad school, I would choose Ga Tech.</p>
<p>I would choose Purdue. I don’t think Rose Hulman would be worth the extra money unless you got some scholarships.</p>
<p>They are all fine schools but each have their own price tag. Are you on any scholarships?</p>
<p>Personally, I’d choose GA-Tech but you can’t go wrong with any of those schools.</p>
<p>I agree with everyone. If you have scholarships, then a school like RHIT or Purdue wouldn’t be a bad choice. All of them are very good schools, so you just have to choose the one you feel most comfortable with.</p>
<p>I am an international student, so I have to pay out-of-state tuition.
Gatech 4w
Purdue 3.7w
RSIT 4.5w
Does any body have more opinion?</p>
<p>RHIT is a private school and therefore does not cost any more for out of state than in state (but it is basically very expensive either way). Purdue on the other hand does. I’m not sure about Gatech.</p>
<p>Any other suggestion? You can show your ideal rank of these three by useing " > ".</p>
<p>Gatech > Purdue> RS…so many more career options coming from a target school…even though georgia tech is not exactly the ideal target for the elite jobs should you ever decide to pursue them rather than engineering…it is still better than the other 2.</p>
<p>Depends too on where you want to live, if that matters. If you want to be in a very remote area where (according to my s’s friend who attended) the most exciting off campus place was the local Wal mart, that would be Rose Hulman. Ga Tech is in a metropolitan city, but there have been a few crime issues recently. Purdue is sort of in between- Lafayette Indiana isnt as remote as Terre Haute, but not as urbanas Atlanta. All are strong schools, though.</p>
<p>In state (Indiana) you might be able to get a scholarship for Purdue or even for RHIT (even though it is private). Otherwise, for the vast majority who are out of state, if you want a very small school choose RHIT if you can afford it (or go the ROTC route). If you want a huge school choose Purdue. Personally I would want more choices than Ga Tech. CWRU for example is even more expensive than RHIT. Rice or CMU would be nice choices if you can get in.</p>
<p>The differences between the schools as far as opportunity upon graduation is negligible. Choose the school based on the things mentioned by others ; e.g. location, size, etc.</p>
<p>Bearcats offers an example that is not really applicable to these schools. If your goal is to get into banking, consulting, etc., you want to choose an engineering program that is at a school where there is also a top business program. The quality of engineering at such a school is irrelevant in such a case. Banks and consulting firms will be on campus to recruit students in general(MBA and/or undergrad), and any engineering curriculum is going to be at least equally as hard as the business curriculum. Thus, they will accept numerous engineering majors for the same positions. GTECH, Purdue, and RH do not fall into the category of target schools for banks or consulting firms - they do, however, fit into the category of target schools for engineering firms. Gtech and Purdue have massive recruiting for such positions, much more than almost any(with the exception of maybe MIT and Berkeley) of the target schools for Ibanks, etc.</p>
<p>I personally would go to Purdue over gatech because I like the location a lot better. I’m not an urban guy (I am a pig after all). </p>
<p>RHIT is too small a school to have a big reputation or recruiting opportunities, but you can get a good education there too.</p>
<p>overall purdue > gatech > rhit</p>
<p>purdue > gatech is laughable, no matter what criteria it is, be it recruiting, overall, or engineering reputation.</p>
<p>I will admit that I think Gtech is a better engineering program than Purdue, but only slightly. However, what I really think is laughable is you. Michigan is a good school, dont get me wrong - but I dont know what else you are trying to prove??? IE at Mich is not an MBA at Harvard - yet you only speak of engineering as a means to a banking or consulting profession The Purdue engineering career fair attracted about 240ish companies this year while UMich engineering attracted about 130ish. I cannot find any stats about Gtech, however, I imagine that it is more in the range of Purdue with similar companies. You speak of these things like you have some authority on the issue? I would be willing to bet that any single job an engineer from Gtech gets, one from Purdue can as well. I would say the same for Mich, minus the banking and consulting fields - which, IMHO, is NOT a product of Umich engineering, but rather a consequence of UMich business.</p>
<p>“yet you only speak of engineering as a means to a banking or consulting profession…”
The more options you have the better. Assuming the engineering specific career outlook at Gatech = engineering specific career outlook at purdue (which is a meh statement but i’ll give you that for argument’s sake) but the outside-of-engineering career outlook at Gatech is better than that of purdue, that basically mean you have more options at Gatech than at purdue. I know for a fact that Deusche bank recruit Gatech for front office positions. Highly doubt any big bulge brackets recruit purdue for FRONT OFFICE positions. Why not keep your options open?</p>
<p>“The Purdue engineering career fair attracted about 240ish companies this year while UMich engineering attracted about 130ish.”
That’s incorrect in 2 levels. First of all, the number you are looking for is 180, not 130.
[Corporations</a> Attending | SWE/TBP Career Fair 2009](<a href=“http://www.umcareerfair.org/node/10]Corporations”>http://www.umcareerfair.org/node/10)
Second point, there are 3 career fairs. The big company one that just happened over 2 days last week. Then there’s one for smaller midwest type of companies. Then there’s one hosted by MPowered that features startup companies. That’s because the duderstadt, pierpont, CSE, and EECS buildings have limited capacity. The 130 (should be 180) figure you got is just for the first “big company” career fair. Also, notice how the most popular companies that used to be at the career fairs are missing? For instance, google, goldman sachs, Mckinsey, BCG and the elites? This is because in the past years the line would be so long because these companies are so popular that they create a mess and affect other companies. These companies are encouraged to do information sections and networking event outside of the career fair, which they are doing so. Mckinsey did an event at the industrial engineering building. Goldman Sachs is coming next week. </p>
<p>You are delusional if you are trying to imply that purdue engineering specific recruiting > michigan engineering specific recruiting. and outside of engineering it’s not even a debate</p>
<p>“I would say the same for Mich, minus the banking and consulting fields - which, IMHO, is NOT a product of Umich engineering, but rather a consequence of UMich business.”</p>
<p>Mckinsey comes to north campus (engineering campus) for workshops and information sections every 2 months. Bain and BCG do it less frequently but more schoolwide but they do engineering specific events too. Banks typically have one information section at the Bschool and one at the engineering school. For instance, goldman is coming to engineering school on the 6th. They showed up at Bschool already. Sure the Ross reputation helped but those prestigious companies actually do engineering specific events. There are also elite prop trading firms that only recruit engineering students, for instance, Chicago trading company, Optiver, Jump Trading, Spot Trading, Wolverine Trading and a bunch of the smaller ones were all at the engineering career fair.
Plus one more thing the thing, most career fairs and on campus recruiting is open to all colleges. That means as a Michigan engineering student, I could go to Morgan Stanley’s on campus recruiting at the Bschool even though MS is one of those banks that don’t specifically recruit engineers and I know people who got interviews that way. That’s an option that you dont have at purdue. The thing I am emphasizing here is options. I thought I was dead set on engineering. After my first year I changed my mind and wanted to pursue a career in high finance. </p>
<p>Michigan Engineering is not harvard but it’s also not as hopeless as purdue for my purpose. This is not an insult. It is the truth, at least for my purpose.</p>
<p>You are delusional if you are trying to imply that purdue engineering specific recruiting > michigan engineering specific recruiting. and outside of engineering it’s not even a debate</p>
<p>Really? Your points made to back up such a claim are unsubstantiated. As with any large school, Purdue has numerous career fairs throughout each semester and many companies who recruit here dont attend any of the fairs. Thus, your points about Mich are the same as at Purdue which negates their relevance.</p>
<p>How, might I ask, would it be delusional to imply that engineering specific recruiting at Purdue is greater(at least by numbers in attendance) than that of UMich? Subtract out all of the consulting and banking firms from the 180 that come to UMich and Im sure you are left with a substantially lower number of firms, do the same at Purdue and you might lose 5 firms If you go by either comparison, 240 firms > 180 firms, and 235 firms > (180 (banks & Cfirms)).</p>
<p>I have no problem with your interest in banking/consulting, I am happy that you are in a position to do something that interests you. My point was that you seem to continuously post about these non-engineering career tracks in an engineering forum, and use the presence of banks and cfirms on a campus as grounds to argue for a better engineering program Nearly all schools that attract banks and cfirms to their engineering fairs are schools with strong business programs or in some cases just prestigious schools in general. Heavy engineering schools, such as Purdue and Gtech which really ONLY focus on engineering, are not comparable in such a capacity. The ENGINEERING opportunities at any of these schools is nearly the same </p>
<p>I sense that purduefrank may be a little biased towards Purdue…</p>
<p>Both schools have fine engineering programs, so I don’t see the point to arguing. There are enough corporations contributing to the career fairs at both schools. I don’t think that a person’s quality of education would suffer from going to any schools the OP has mentioned…</p>