Hi everyone! I am really confusing about my school choice. The more I searched, the more I concerned about each school. I have been admitted to RHIT, UVa, UCSD and Toronto.
They are both great schools but I have different concerns for each of them. Currently, I like RHIT and UVa best, but I’m worrying that Rhit has so limited choice on major and I may choose to double in finance. While for UVa, I’ve heard from some teachers that it’s a school “good at everything except engineering”, so I am concerned that I won’t be able to find a job after graduating as I decide to work first. As for UCSD and Toronto, they will be perfect schools if they are not so big (I like to have more communications with professors) but these two schools are really good at engineering and have more options.
Please give me some advices about their engineering programs, it’s really frustrating after spending half a month just on which school I should go…
I want to have a relative small class-size, great undergraduate engineering program, some place to double major and great job perspective. It seems I want a lot…
I will really appreciate if you could give me some advices!! 
Every school is regional so if all things are equal (finances) I would start there. Are you a Canadian citizen or resident? If not the UT network might not be the best for you. Want to work in the west? East? Do you want to go the graduate school afterwards? If so considerations change.
Well UofToronto is very big and very urban. Its main campus (St. George) is 45 000 students and it is very integrated in downtown Toronto. The campus is in the heart of downtown so you will see plenty of locals walking down the streets as a well as students; it is not in anyway a gated community. Now it does have two satellite campuses in the Toronto suburbs (Mississauga campus and Scarborough campus) that are much smaller (10 000- 15 000 students) and two have campuses that are more segregated from the surrounding community so those might be a bit more of a fit. As to classes in the first couple years of your undergrad, if you go to UofT you will have some intro classes that will have several hundred students in them, this is pretty unavoidable and you will have to adapt to likely having a few classes in Convocation hall where your just one of a crowd of hundreds. However in the first two years you also generally have tutorial classes for all all your introductory courses which are periods of 1 hour a week where you and a small group (usually around 20) meet with a Graduate Student Teaching Assistant who assist the professor running that course and he or she will go over the material the professor covered that week in main lecture and clarify any issues you had with the material. This changes in 3rd and 4th year those classes shrink dramatically and usually are no bigger than around 40 students (some classes less than 10) and you get a lot of one-on-one interaction with the professors. If you choose to take on an honours project in 4th year you will get to work in a graduate research lab run by a UofT professor for 1-2 semesters so obviously you get a lot of face time with the professor there.
As to double majors, they are pretty much the standard at UofT: there really isn’t a core curriculum there, so people generally chose a double major (or a specialist) over the traditional major+ minor. Toronto is a big, wealthy city, so I would say its job prospects (at least for Canadian Citizens or international students who graduate and apply for permanent residence) would be the best of any city on this list by a substantial margin.
UofT is pretty much on the opposite end of the spectrum from a school like RHIT: Very big and urban with large intro classes but it has a ton of research opportunities in upper years.
Out of curiosity, are you applying to these schools as a Canadian or American citizen? Do you know how the costs of these different universities will compare?
If you are thinking about Finance, Rose-Hulman has an opportunity that is somewhat under the radar. We have partnered with the very highly respected Indiana University Kelley School of Business to offer our graduates a very appealing opportunity. A student graduating from Rose-Hulman can complete a Master of Science in the following areas at the IU Kelley School of Business and do so in only ONE academic year:
MS Finance
MS Entrepreneurship and Innovation
MS Global Supply Chain Management
MS Business Analytics
MS Strategic Management
MS Marketing
MS Information Systems
MS Information Management
It is a great opportunity to complete an outstanding STEM major at Rose-Hulman and then complete a Master’s degree in a business discipline in a +1 format. And if you have credit coming into Rose-Hulman, you can complete both degrees in less than five years.
If you have any questions about this or other +1 programs, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Jared Goulding
Associate Director for Graduate and International Admissions
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Thank you! I am applying to these schools as an Asian student, so the tuition for Toronto is much cheaper than that of most of my American schools, but I get some scholarship from RHIT and plan to intern during college.