<p>Trying to decide between VT, Stevens and Udel for Civil or Mechanical engineering.</p>
<p>Leaning toward Udel...</p>
<p>Any help will be appreciated.</p>
<p>Why the lean toward University of Delaware? What is the cost differential between the three schools?</p>
<p>Stevens is a very small school compared to the other and is in an urban environment. You could eat dinner in Manhattan after classes and still be back in time to study.</p>
<p>UDel is a large school in something less than suburban but not exactly rural environment, not too far from either Baltimore or Philly. You could visit either on weekends.</p>
<p>VT is a large school… I’m sorry to say this… in the middle of nowhere!!</p>
<p>Unless you’ve visited VT (more than once and hopefully a couple of nights) and can see yourself there, the choice is between UDel and Stevens.</p>
<p>UDel will be much cheaper than Stevens… in both school costs and personal costs. </p>
<p>You’ll have to give more info to comment further.</p>
<p>D graduate of UDel Mech Eng and I know a boy who went to Stevens, both graduating into the same crappy economy, comparing the opportunities each had, job prospects, not even a question. Stevens beats UDel by a mile.</p>
<p>Udel career services for engineers is severely lacking. My D has a fairly big group of friends her year and the year previous 2011 of Udel Engineers, the jobs obtained post graduation, only about 30% were even able to get jobs in engineering. The remainder are still severely underemployed, or unemployed. The underemployed are working in the retail industry ie Target/Walmart/Best Buy.
One of her UDel prof even said the employer/recruiting from UDel was subpar.</p>
<p>My daughter is at VT in Civil and is loving it. School has the most wonderful spirit - people are kind, generous, fun loving, and generally convey very positive attitudes. Football games are amazing but there is a lot to do even when football is over - she been doing a lot of hiking and even overnight camping. Many community service opportunities as well.</p>
<p>Academically, its a challenge but she loves it. Career counseling and assistance is stellar - the job fairs are huge - 150+ employers for civil/construction majors alone. There is an even larger fair for all disciplines and other disciplines have their own as well. She landed a great internship in Dec for this summer - pretty much her dream internship - that she never would have known about without the job fair. Her civil classmates have done well also. Given that they are only sophomores, they are well on their way to landing jobs after graduation.</p>