<p>I'm planning on transfering to either temple or drexel for civil engineering from a community college. My problem is cost. I come from a extremely low income family and cost of school is an issue. My financial aid should cover almost all of Temple's tuition, but I would definately have to take out a loan for drexel. I know drexel is known for it's engineering program. I dont know whether it's worth getting into debt over going to a better ranking engineering program. I could care less about the co-op program. Both programs are ABET accredited. Would going to the better school help me significantly find a job?</p>
<p>The co-op program that you couldn’t care less about is what gives Drexel students an advantage in finding a job.</p>
<p>Temple has co-op as well. Is Drexel that much better than Temple?</p>
<p>Short answer: yes, but don’t take out any outrageous loans to go to drexel.</p>
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Wow. Probably the single most important factor in getting a good job out of college is relevant internship or coop experience. </p>
<p>While true for the average college grad, this also holds strongly in engineering since people working in the field know the classes in college are almost nothing like the day-to-day work. They don’t want to hire someone who is going to leave after 6 months because it wasn’t what they expected or wanted.</p>
<p>And here you have a program that prides itself in placing its students in jobs, as opposed to most schools where they have a book listing employers in the career center and if your lucky a few of the on-campus recruiters will also have a few slots for juniors to sign up to try to get an internship. Every college “has a co-op program” in that if you find one they’ll let you do a co-op and give you a token amount of college credit for it. Few actually have a program that gets just about everyone who wants one a position.</p>
<p>Not only that, I wonder how someone who says money is such a critical issue can ignore the financial benefits of a coop job. According to the Drexel website the average engineer earns over $17K for a six-month coop, and that money is NOT counted against the EFC in determining financial aid.</p>