<p>I have been accepted to NYU-poly for computer science major. I have heard very mixed opinions for this college. I wanted to know what you guys out there think about it. How will the full merger with NYU affect its reputation, amongst other things. </p>
<p>Is it worth taking admission in hope that by the time I pass out, it may become one of the top engineering colleges in the country, as a result of this merger?</p>
<p>P.S. - Poly was just affiliated to NYU in 2007/8 I believe. But in Oct 2012 a complete merger had been announced, and it would be done by ~2014.
By the way, I also got accepted to Purdue University for computer engr. How would these 2 compare with each other?</p>
<p>Thanks !</p>
<p>You should evaluate Poly based on whether you feel comfortable with the school itself. The NYU affiliation should not be a major factor in this decision. In my opinion, Poly will not become a top engineering school anytime soon even if it becomes a full school of NYU. There are many factors that goes into the strength of an Engineering program. Attaching a NYU label to the name will not change these things overnight. </p>
<p>Purdue is certainly a much better Engineering school than Poly. It is even a better school overall. If you don’t mind living in Indiana for the next four years, Purdue is the much superior choice.</p>
<p>I think he is sharptech is unfairly putting down NYU-Poly. It is a great school for what it is. It is just a Science and Engineering school and students come out with a solid foundation in the engineering field of their choice. Poly has one of the highest job placement rates in the country and is also in the top 25 for highest average salary.(payscale.com) If you go solely off US News rankings Purdue is considerably better. Rankings dont tell the whole story. I do agree however that the nyu merger will not have a profound effect on Poly beyond the fact that you will be atending NYU which has some prestige in and of itself.</p>
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<p>Of course it does; it is a primarily engineering school, which has - as a course of study - higher job placement rates than most others. That gives any technical school an inherent advantage in job placement statistics.</p>
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<p>Of course it does. It is located in New York City, one of the most expensive places to live in the country, and has an almost exclusively regional corporate recruiting base, so most salaries of graduates merely reflect the geography.</p>
<p>That isn’t to say NYU Poly is necessarily bad. It just means that these reasons you use are flawed and don’t really mean what you think they do.</p>
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<p>Also if you go by nearly any measure of the quality of an engineering degree, Purdue is considerably better. That doesn’t necessarily make it the right choice for the OP, however.</p>
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<p>However, the payscale.com listings are skewed by the distribution of majors at each school. A school that is mostly engineering majors will generally have a higher average pay for graduates than a school with a lot of biology majors and other majors with low paying jobs after graduation, even if the second school’s engineering majors have better placement and higher pay than the first school’s engineering majors.</p>
<p>I wasnt saying its the best school in the world I was just saying that it can hold its own when compared with the big name engineering schools.</p>
<p>Similarly, I didn’t say anything other than the fact that your reasons for saying that are insufficient to draw those conclusions.</p>
<p>@Blankwall. I do not have time to argue this with you. You are the one who needs to think objectively. I am being very fair in saying that Purdue is the much better school. It is not only Engineering where Purdue is better than Poly. Purdue is better than Poly in all areas outside of Engineering as well including Business, Sciences, and Liberal Arts. This is a big advantage for OP in case if he decides that Engineering is not for him after his freshman year, he will have other places to go without transferring to another university.</p>
<p>When you search the Internet, all rankings other than the USNews put Purdue at a much higher position than Poly. Plus, there are many reasons why Purdue is ranked higher in these rankings. These include students quality, admissions difficulty, facilities, reputation, quality of professors, job placement, etc.</p>
<p>Should OP needs to find a job in the West Coast five years from now, he will be much better off with a degree from Purdue. All engineering employers across the country including the West Coast and Northeast know Purdue is a great school. But only people in the NYC area sees Poly as a good school. Nobody in California, including the engineers, have heard of Poly. But many of them have heard of Purdue.</p>
<p>Also keep in mind I am an international student, so there is a chance I will go back to India and work there. So international prestige of the university might be a factor as well.</p>
<p>Well, if you are currently in India, you may be better placed to tell the prestige of various schools in India. I.e. in India, is PINYU considered a prestigious school that will be helpful in gaining employment in India versus other schools?</p>
<p>I wouldnt be asking if I knew heh 
Maybe someone from India has done engr in either of those and has better idea?</p>
<p>Anyways, thats just if I come back to India for my first job. If I were to do it in USA itself, then Poly is just good for NYC area ?</p>
<p>Purdue will be the better school for you whether you decide to go back to India or stay in USA. If you don’t believe me, you can look at the websites or profiles of Engineering and Computer Science professors across the top universities in the world. These include the IITs in your country. You will find quite a few of them have done their PhDs at Purdue. But you will find much fewer of them have done their PhDs at Brooklyn Polytechnic. This should be a very good indication that Purdue is much more reputable, even in the academic world.</p>
<p>“This is a big advantage for OP in case if he decides that Engineering is not for him after his freshman year, he will have other places to go without transferring to another university.”</p>
<p>NYU poly is now part of NYU schools (will be called Polytechnic school of engineering )… If the OP wants to change his majors in the future, he can always transfer to other schools within NYU like CAS or stern for business or liberal arts. NYU does have a decent reputation. Many famous people study at NYU.</p>
<p>Hey If a person applies to a Graduate computer Science course at NYU POLY then does that mean after merger The computer sci Degree at NYU POLY will have same reputation and regard as that of comp sci at NYU…</p>
<p>You have to ask NYU and PINYU what the merger means for the CS departments and majors, since CS is a major offered by both schools pre-merger.</p>
<p>In California if you mention “Poly”, everyone assumes you are talking about either Cal Poly San Luis Obispo or Cal Poly Pomona.</p>
<p>After the merger, they plan on overlapping majors.</p>
<p>We asked this very question when we visited NYU a year ago and they said that they were engaged but not married, and there was still a lot to work out. In other words the whole thing can still fall through.</p>