<p>Hi all, I am currently trying to narrow down my graduate school search, and this forum seems like to place to receive the most help the fastest.</p>
<p>It's hard to find an equivalent list of top structural engineering graduate schools similar to what U.S. News does for civil engineering graduate schools in general.</p>
<p>What are some of the top graduate schools in the U.S. for structures (that I could get funding for given my academic record) ?</p>
<p>I have a 3.76 GPA @ Rose-Hulman and a structural engineering conference proceeding under my belt (I have research experience). Taking the GRE in a few weeks. I'd like to have a list of top 4 schools to send my scores to when I take the test, as well as some to send scores to later. </p>
<p>Not really, I am open to a lot, but I am interested in statistics/probability. If I saw a list of research areas I could probably pinpoint ones I was not interested in, but not sure about the other way around.</p>
<p>I mean Structural reliability, risk analysis, decision theory interest me for the moment because I have always been fond of probability & statistics. My undergrad research was on FRP which I also enjoyed thoroughly, overall I think I will enjoy most all research fields.</p>
<p>In looking for a grad school, it can be more important to try to find a group or individual you are interested in studying under, since not every school will have people from every area. SUNY Buffalo has a great earthquake engineering research center. If you are more interested in Reinforced concrete, structural steel, finite element analysis, composite structural materials, plastic analysis and design, or some other area, then I would be looking for a group doing that kind of work rather than for a generic “structural engineering department.” </p>
<p>Once you locate some groups, you can find out how extensive their work is by looking up their publications. Also finding out where the people in the department or group went to school.</p>
<p>I was hoping to find a list of the best 5-20 structural engineering schools and then check out their programs and from there find the ones who have the research that I am most interested in.</p>