I am trying to get in of this schools but i am not sure which one to peak, so i am trying to major in civil engineering & minor in computer engineering. Thanks For Your Help!
Hi,
I’m not familiar with either schools, but I think you should go to their websites and look at their engineering department. If it seems like they have a strong department, you should pick that one. Or, to see an objective way of choosing one, find each school’s rank for engineering majors on US news and rankings. They have specific criteria for ranking, so consider those when picking. After, if you find that you can’t pick one, apply to both!! It doesn’t hurt to apply, because you might change your mind later on which one to go to.
Stevens, if you can afford it.
Big general school with everything, or small engineering focused school? And net cost at each?
First see where you get in, Second, see what you can afford, Third, see what you prefer.
@happy1 I’m tempted to copy and paste your answer on half the threads on CC. Correct and precise! 
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Stevens is in Hoboken, which is now a fun city and close to NYC. Rutgers is in Piscataway, a pleasant but boring suburb with lots of tract housing built on the old farm land. Stevens is the obvious choice is it is affordable.
^^^I actually don’t think Stevens is the “obvious choice.” for everyone. IMO it is a matter of fit. Stevens is a technical school (STEM/engineering) that is over 70% male while Rutgers has a more well rounded student body, sports etc. I would give the academic nod to Stevens, but in terms of the “entire college experience” it is a matter of personal preference.
Stevens is not the obvious choice at all. First, despite being in a great town, Hoboken, and one Path train stop from Greenwich Village, the social life at Stevens is abysmal. My son has two friends there and they regret going.
Part of Rutgers may be in Piscataway but the heart of Rutgers is the College Ave Campus in New Brunswick. Rutgers is a lot of things, but boring is not one of them. If there were a school that could afford to have less social life, it would be Rutgers.
Rutgers Engineering holds its own against Stevens.
It’s true that Stevens doesn’t have much of a social life. Most students I know who’ve gone there are very academically-focused.
You have all your life to socialize. Stevens is the obvious choice. Stevens students are far more in depth trained than Rutgers, and this is reflected in the value that the professional marketplace accords the graduates (Stevens graduates are the third highest paid college graduates in the U.S., according to Bloomberg Business Week/Payscale’s survey “What’s Your College Degree Worth, 2016”). When I attended Stevens Rutgers was the “safety” school for those who didn’t gain acceptance.
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That is likely because Stevens is very engineering-heavy. Engineering-heavy schools tend to do well in Payscale surveys by school when the results are not stratified by major.
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Not so. The Payscale survey also gave results for only engineering schools and only the engineering divisions of schools with other majors (which removes the effect of a preponderance of engineering majors from skewing the overall results). In that peer group Stevens comes in fifth in the nation.
Stevens is really expensive. Your from NJ right? So it will be cheaper to go to Rutgers. Can you afford Stevens?
Stevens students ob the average pay half of the “sticker price” of tuition, meaning it is comparable to attending Rutgers with respect to cost for most. Academically and with respect to the quality of the students, and one’s career prospects after graduation Stevens is far superior. I was offered a near full scholarship to Rutgers when I was in high school but still attended Stevens.
Academics-Stevens
Social Life-Rutgers
Location/Area-Stevens
Campus Life-Rutgers
Price-Rutgers
Value-Tie
Overall-Tie