It seems as though with all of the international grads coming here that jobs might be few and far between in the coming years. They need additional skills to be competitive. Maybe an MBA?
Another vote for checking out some LACs with engineering – Lafayette, Bucknell, Union, Trinity.
Check out Case Western Reserve University or Lafayette. Both have significant liberal arts departments.
If you are still looking, then check out Harvey Mudd College, which takes a liberal arts approach to science and engineering. It’s very selective and rigorous, but wants students to have a strong humanities/soc science component, also. Classes can be taken at the neighboring Pomona, Scripps, Pitzer and Claremont Mckenna, which increases the liberal arts offerings.
Okay will check all those out. Thanks
Okay so here we are months later and here’s the update…
Missed NMSF by 1 point but made 34 on ACT with a 4.0 and AP Scholar
The ‘applying to’ list so far is
Auburn
Vandy
UTenn
UA Huntsville
Tn tech
Ga Tech
Still on back burner
Northwestern
MIT - his dream school but…
Baylor
Clemson
Rose Hulman
Miami of Ohio
Purdue
The costs of these schools vary wildly. Not too sure about lots of travel. Engineering seems to be the same everywhere so spending a lot on it doesn’t seem smart. However the co-op and internship choices at the more prestigious schools cannot be overlooked.
I love the idea of all of the PA schools mentioned earlier but they are just too far away. Yes we have other distance schools in our list but those are his picks specifically… Not ones I learned about.
At this point it seems that UTK is on top even though it seems silly to send him there when he could get into a better school. The scholarship and cost savings make it hard to beat. Though he would love MIT… I just don’t see how we swing that. Hard decisions ahead, it seems.
Any advice is appreciated.
Some state schools offer co-ops.
For example:
http://www.coop.utk.edu/Student-Coop-About.html
http://www.uah.edu/career-services/internships-coops
Considered University of Florida? Great engineering, MUN team, money for Merit scholars.
The bigger state universities probably have more to offer your son. I will say however that engineering is pretty intense study that often doesn’t leave much free time available.
Tufts might be a good fit for your son.
It has a relatively small engineering school embedded in a small research university with an arts and science focus.
Bucknell’s and Lafayette’s engineering departments are about the same size and Rice’s is over 50% larger. This makes the ratio of engineers to liberal arts students at Tufts very low for a university and actually lower than some LACs. Since engineers are not housed in separate dorms, there is lots of intermingling.
IR is one of the most popular majors, so the population of IR majors is slightly larger than the population of engineers. If you add in the political science majors, the total population of policy majors is 50% larger than the population of engineers.
This makes for a large population of people who like to debate policy.
In fact, Tufts recently beat Yale for the national debating championship.
http://tuftsdaily.com/news/2016/04/21/tufts-debaters-win-national-championship/