Troy has improved a lot in recent years (not saying it’s >= University Circle, but just that a lot of the negative comments about Troy that you read online are from years ago). Of course it’s still just a small town.
Besides job opportunities, think about whether you want heavy (and challenging) engineering focus in a “nerdy” environment (RPI), or a college that has more in terms of non-STEM courses, and as MYOS pointed out, less gender imbalance (CW).
(My D is a freshman engineer at RPI, and quite happy there.)