@stencils thank you for offering info as my son is seriously considering Temple. My daughter ended up at Pitt for engineering because Temple seemed to make so little effort at increasing their women in STEM numbers. Do you know how your daughter felt about the diversity in their engineering program? Does the program have a focus on co-ops? Did your daughter take advantage of the study abroad options? (hope you don’t mind all the questions! 
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All good questions, and feel free to message me on the side here as well.
My daughter was also an athlete, so she had a great experience of strong female connections through her team. Her roommates freshmen and sophomore year were also largely female engineering majors; they found each other and self-selected for housing through an incoming Temple Honors facebook group. The men definitely outnumber the women though – I could see that during the grad ceremony and my daughter was the only woman on her senior design project team of 5. I’d say Temple Engineering was really solid on general diversity though, just not on the male/female ratio. I think that’s probably true of most engineering programs. Bioengineering is probably the most balanced at Temple.
Study abroad is hard in Temple Engineering due to the course schedule, and (my opinion) would nearly impossible unless you came in with significant AP credit to create some room in your schedule. Some of her engineering friends chose to do a summer session abroad instead.
My daughter and most of her friends had no problems finding quality summer internships or on-campus paid summer research projects. My daughter worked for a couple of different companies in summer internships before graduating.
If your son has also been selected for Temple Honors, I’ll add that Honors is a HUGE benefit. The Honors program staff and features are really amazing. I have another daughter who is currently a CS major there and is super-involved with Temple Honors stuff.
Thanks so much for the information! When I was touring campus with my daughter we LOVED the campus and everything- until they got to the question about % of women in the program and we were really surprised how different it was compared to Pitt and PSU. I’m glad to hear that their general diversity is stronger than their M/F ratio.
My daughter has found study abroad difficult at Pitt, too. But the co-ops (currently an 8 month co-op north of manhattan) have been great. Hoping for son to have good work experience while in college as well.
Goodness you are a loyal Temple parent with potentially 3 Temple grads! WTG!
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Ha! It wasn’t the plan, and both younger kids also applied to lots of other places. My middle daughter went to almost May 1 deciding between UBuffalo, NJIT, and Temple, and my son is still considering a few others as well. We’ll see if it ends up being 3 for 3 
Edited to add: Temple Eng is more of a summer internship school than a co-op school. I personally love strong co-op programs. I’m an RIT grad myself, and RIT is a strong co-op school.
RIT is on my son’s list as well. Still waiting to hear from quite a few and the choice will be hard!! Daughter got big Pitt scholarship a few years back which took care of the difficult choice problem. Son has Pitt and PSU and Temple- all good programs and none with substantial merit aid at this point, so all around the same price. Let’s see what March brings us!!
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@Susanb33 Figured I’d put this out here since we just had the accepted student day at Temple last weekend. Temple Engineering is currently 26% women.
@stencils Thank you!!
Please I applied as an international applicant for regular decison and we are in the month of may and still no reponnse.
@Micheal_Adjetey I think you need to contact Temple admissions directly at this point via the phone number or email on the Temple University website. The Temple admissions department isn’t involved in the community chat here.
Temple must still be accepting students because my son never declined and was just awarded an additional scholarship. He’s fully committed to another school though.