What are some good small schools that are good for engineering majors? Doesn’t have to be a tiny school but not a large state school with 50k+ students.
Or if it’s a school where students at least don’t feel “lost in the mix” or slipping through the cracks. I’m at a big state school now and it’s awful, extremely impersonal, and I don’t even have an advisor! My smallest class is an advanced language class. the rest are 200+ people per class with clueless TAs
Michigan Tech is public, but not as large as some schools and technology focused. What is your budget? What are your stats? Also, can you swap sections to get TAs that work better for you?
WPI, RPI
RPI, Lehigh, Clarkson
Union,Clarkson,and RPI.
Valparaiso, Marquette, university of Dayton,
Rose-Hulman
Alfred, Clarkson, Catholic, Gannon, UHartford, Loyola Baltimore, Univ of New Haven, NJIT, Stevens, UMaine, Manhattan, WPI, RPI, UDayton, URochester, UAH, Lafayette
Rose Hulman, Kettering,
Great suggestions, we especially loved WPI, beautiful New England LAC/STEM campus in a nice part of Worcester (pronounced Wus-ter, Wus-ta by locals). Great campus vibe, we thought students were great. It has a very hands-on, project-oriented approach, with lots of internships, etc., if that appeals. Also, students take 3 classes at a time, and there are 3 quarters per school year. Good luck!
Bucknell might be of interest
Olin, tufts, northeastern. (Three pretty different options, same city!)
RIT is another one not mentioned above.
I’m a pretty good student i transferred out of community college so I have pretty much all the prereqs I was looking to go to a more prestigious school and think less about the money. I chose this school thinking I’d be saving on living expenses and had housing guaranteed and all that but it wasn’t worth it.
Colorado School of Mines.
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
Both are public, but are small schools. NMTech offers merit to transfer students.
Also, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is a small engineering-focused school with a low list price, even for out-of-state students.
I like all the suggestions so far, especially WPI. It made my son’s final 3. I’ll also throw out the school he chose, Cal Poly. It isn’t tiny, but it has less than 20,000 students. More importantly though, there are no large classes. The biggest lecture hall on the whole campus is in the business school. It holds 200. Clueless TAs? How about no TAs. All lectures labs and discussions are taught by instructors with terminal degrees. Nearly every one of my son’s instructors over the years holds a PhD.
Which school are you at and where are you willing and unwilling to go?
If you can handle the weather, the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. That’s where I went for undergrad. Maybe 4000 full-time students on campus, and some pretty legit engineering programs. My biggest class had about 60 students. Most engineering classes should have about 15-25 students.