<p>Before anyone says it, I know UH is not ABET accredited but hopefully it will be by the time i graduate. </p>
<p>I'm basically picking betwen these two schools now for Petroleum Engineering. The obvious choice would be TAMU but the problem is that they want me to take out $18000 worth of loans each year. I am willing to take out loans but I'm just wondering if it is actually worth it. UH is covering full tuition so it will be significantly cheaper in the end. TAMU, when all said and done, will probably be $50000 more expensive than UH. </p>
<p>Is UH a good enough school to land me a job. I know TAMU has a huge network that can help me get internships in the field. I know Houston's location is advantageous but do big companies actually recruit from there? </p>
<p>I’ve gotta say tamu !! Not only are they abet accredited but they’re engineering school is pretty top tier as well. I’ve never heard of UH being recognized for engineering. </p>
<p>I think the loans would be well worth it, as long as you make use of the opportunities at tamu, do well and get a great job after graduation </p>
<p>In this economy, I would suggest UH as well. It’s too risky to put so much debts when few engineering jobs are available. After UH and gaining some real experiences, you can apply to TAMU for graduate school.</p>
<p>@texaspg
Yes they gave me $5500 worth of stafford loans, $2500 Aggie grant, and I received the $1500 top 10% scholarship. The rest will be covered by the direct plus loan or student loans. UH, on other hand, basically covered full tuition and also gave me the stafford loans, top 10% scholarship. I’ll be basically paying for the dorm at Uh.</p>
<p>@Fullmetalx<br>
When do they tell you those info about aid? I’m probably going to Tech ($6500/yr - transfer scholarship 3.5+ gpa) not even including the aid I’ll probably receive for having 3 kids with a $25000 job if A&M aid doesn’t come as close. Still “under review” for A&M.</p>
<p>It sounds like you need to borrow money at UH too but lot less? </p>
<p>There is nothing wrong with not borrowing a whole lot more. You will get other opportunities in life to attend bigger name schools if you do well at UH.</p>
<p>TAMU has the number one petroleum engineering program in the country, and is much better than UH for engineering. Disregard what XtremePower says…the guy has an agenda against A&M for some strange, unknown reason. Somehow, according to him, UT is apparently much better than A&M since its 10 ranks higher, but despite being ranked over 100 spots higher than UH, A&M and UH are the same thing…</p>
<p>However, in another thread recently started, the A&M department of petroleum engineering sent out letters to incoming PETE frosh stating that due to historically high levels of undergrads pursuing degrees in petroleum engineering, there is likely to be a deficit of petroleum engineering jobs within the next 5 years. </p>
<p>Based on that info alone, I would probably pick UH and not risk 50K in loans, and no job post graduation.</p>
<p>I have nothing against TAMU. I said Austin is better because it is a superior school than TAMU overall and its only 1 spot behind in petroleum engineering. Who cares about 1 spot ? If I were choosing, I would definitely go with the superior college.</p>
<p>Now before you jump at me about how is University of Texas is Austin better than Texas A&M, look at the rankings (of every program), selectivity, average freshman stats, prestige etc. TAMU has average SAT of 1770 whereas UT- Austin has average SAT of 1860. GPA’s are also higher at TAMU. So, it can be concluded that TAMU is for UT-Austin rejects.</p>
<p>I agree. UT IS better than A&M. If you’ve seen any of my posts on this board, I acknowledge that UT is an elite public school on par with Michigan, Berkeley et al. A&M’s peers are Penn State, Illinois, Minnesota, Purdue, Florida etc. But A&M is in no way the “same” as UH.
Lets look at some stats though:
Last year, for the entering class of 2012, 60% of freshmen matriculating to A&M were in the top 10% of their graduating class. That means that around 55-60% of entering freshman COULD HAVE GONE TO UT, but decided otherwise. This number has historically been greater than 50%.
Every year, UT admits 1000 transfer students as part of the CAP program. Students in the CAP program did not get into UT originally. In fact, a decent number (no published data is recorded) were not admitted to A&M and were given offers to transfer from a branch campus after a year (like UT CAP).
So although UT is more selective, A&M is by no means a reject school, when over half the student body could have gone to UT.
Lastly, UT’s admission concept is way overwhelmed, and has been for the last few years. When I applied in 09, I was rejected from UT-DESPITE having a 1500 M+CR SAT and being in the top 15% of a competitive class. I in no way believe that I’m in any way a worse student than any of the numerous kids who got in from crappy high schools with 1000s on the SAT. I’ll be making over75K upon graduation (The average starting ChemE salary is incidentally higher at A&M than UT)-how many UT students will make that at the middle of their careers?</p>
<p>“60% of freshmen matriculating to A&M were in the top 10% of their graduating class. That means that around 55-60% of entering freshman COULD HAVE GONE TO UT”</p>
<p>That’s not true. It is definitely possible to be in top 10% and have 1200 SAT. Hence, rejected from UT-Austin.</p>
<p>Ok, go to the tamu website and search common data set. For 2012, 60% of enrolling freshman were in the top 10% of the graduating class. Ill post a link when i get to a computer.
What is your basis for saying thats not true?
Ok bro, a 1500 is much better than a 1200 any way you slice it. UT rejects a decent number of NMSFs in order to not overenroll its class.Its not an accomplishment to be top ten percent at a crappy school…
In my district alone, my school’s top 10 cutoff gpa was half a point higher than the bottom 4 schools in our district. The cutoff was a 5.1. I had a 5.05. Schools X,Y and Z were all less than 4.6.</p>
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