<p>How is RPI's engineering department, is it legit? I was accepted and they gave me a substantial amount of money...I'm thinkin of attending..If anyone has some kind of input, that would be great</p>
<p>RPI has a top notch engineering school. It's BEYOND legit and is ranked pretty highly. 16th this year, I believe.</p>
<p>RPI is AWESOME in engineering. It is the u.s.'s 1st private technical school. the school itself pretty much already an engineering school as more than 50% of students major in engineering . </p>
<p>I visited there during my high school. I was very impressed. State of art classroom, small class size, brand new equipments. Students seem to have fun doing projects</p>
<p>I almost go there for undergrad. </p>
<p>Just that Troy, it is so ugly. It is a dead town (I mean very dead, I was so scared when walking in the city. Almost no ppl on the streets)</p>
<p>its not bad, its not very good.</p>
<p>Yes, it is VERY good, Jeffl. It's not MIT or Cal Tech, but it's still a very good engineering school.</p>
<p>no its not. caltech, MIT, stanford, Michigan, Berkeley, UIUC,Georgia Tech, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon are all better.</p>
<p>RPI has great academics, and a nice size. It's a very good school. It's not THE TOP OF THE LIST of engineering schools, but it's ranked highly. You haven't even sat in on a single class there and you're so quick to judge it based off of a ranking.</p>
<p>The schools you mentioned are better, but that doesn't mean RPI isn't very good. Be open minded and less of an elitist, JeffL.</p>
<p>well, you're not an elitist... that was uncalled for, sorry. I just meant that you should give the school a chance.</p>
<p>"its not bad, its not very good."</p>
<p>"no its not. caltech, MIT, stanford, Michigan, Berkeley, UIUC,Georgia Tech, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon are all better."</p>
<p>Marines920, you were not the one that was out of line. </p>
<p>Last time i checked, there are 300+ division 1 schools, not to mention hundreds more smaller colleges. 16th out of 300+ is still in the top 3-4 percent range, which i believe is pretty damn good. If RPI is not very good, then people that do engineering at florida state or arkansas or oregon should all just give up and be farmers instead?</p>
<p>This may shock you jeffl, but to employers, there's not much seperation between Michigan engineers and RPI engineers or any of the other top 25 engineering schools (unless its MIT/Caltech/Stanford). </p>
<p>You may attend a "very good" university, but your condescending attitude is not going to take you anywhere. Like Marines said and be more open minded instead of getting too caught up on the rankings nonsense.</p>
<p>I applied to RPI, i even visited it. The author of this thread asks how good it is, and i gave my take on this matter. There are at least 10 schools better than it for engineering. so its not awesome. I am responding to what OP asked.</p>
<p>We visited RPI when my daughter was looking at engineering schools. Everyone had told us how bad Troy was. We wanted to look on the optomistic side of things. Well, the education looked wonderful. The town is so sad. RPI received a hugh donation at the time we were looking, like $300 million. They could best help RPI by demolishing and re-building Troy with the money. I think RPI can be a good experience if 1) you don't ever care about leaving campus cuz you're so very into school or, 2) you have some outside interest like sports (or whatever) that will keep you busy enough that you don't care if you ever go into the town.</p>
<p>Folks, I'm an RPI grad and can tell you that the school is easily one of the world's best. I compete with MIT and Stanford engineers everday at work in the semiconductor industry and have been extremely successful. </p>
<p>Cornell, Gatech, CMU, UIUC all all great but RPI is better. No doubt.</p>
<p>note the number of posts of the previous poster.</p>
<p>Ah, let us not discriminate users because of the number of their posts...they are merely new converts to the addiction that is CC and should be welcomed with open arms:)</p>
<p>And Cornell, UIUC, CMU, and Ga Tech are better than RPI in engineering. Not by the ginormous amount that some people like to exaggerate, but they are.</p>
<p>I may not have a lot of experience in posting, but I DO have a lot of experience in engineering. </p>
<p>12 years in high performance microprocessor / DSP fabrication technology
at Texas Instruments Incorporated </p>
<p>Personally administered research projects to Stanford and UT-Austin
and have visited these places and toured facilities. </p>
<p>Years of working with engineers from ALL of the big time engineering schools. </p>
<p>I stand by what I said earlier. Those other schools are great all around universities but RPI undergraduate engineering is simply superb. I only hope to inform younger people about this magnificent engineering school.</p>
<p>hey rico2, are you still working at TI right now?</p>
<p>oh and also, how do/did you like it? Thanks.</p>
<p>Yes, I'm still here. I have to warn you that working in a chip factory is VERY stressfull. Kind of like undergrad engineering but only with a paycheck. The
"fab" runs 24 - 7 so issues can come up on friday nights and weekends. </p>
<p>The folks in the R+D fabs have a different pace than the manufacturing
fabs but still lots of stress. </p>
<p>Lots of people here start their careers on the technical side then migrate to
a business unit (i.e. marketing, sales) for a change of pace. TI is big enough so that you can spend 20 years here and have 5 or 6 very different jobs. </p>
<p>Overall, I like TI OK. Some assignments have been more enjoyable than others. </p>
<p>Decent number of RPI grads here (as well as the other great schools we've been discussing).</p>
<p>rico2, </p>
<p>You said "RPI undergraduate engineering is simply superb". How about the graduate school? </p>
<p>I have received the PhD admission of EE department at RPI, majoring in digital/wireless communication. How do think if I want to find a job in the neighborhood of NY and Philly after graduation? In other words, is RPI prestigious enough for me to compete students from MIT, Cornell, Columbia, or Penn State?</p>
<p>RPI undergrad = 5 stars</p>
<p>RPI grad = 3 stars (you can do better)</p>