Top Engineering Schools With Increased Merit Aid Possibilities for Women

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<p>Do you realize that UT is ranked in the top 10 Engineering programs in the country by USN&WR? The nine schools that are ranked above UT are: </p>

<p>Cornell, CMU, Michigan, U of Illinois, Georgia Tech, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford & MIT. </p>

<p>So which one of these do you think is selective and offers good merit scholarships? As far as I know, Michigan, Stanford, Caltech, Cornell, Berkeley and MIT offer none. CMU offers very little. So that leaves</p>

<p>U of Illinois, Georgia tech</p>

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<p>U.Rochester, WPI, RPI, Case Western, BU, Northeastern.
Merit aid amounts are rather unpredictable so you will be wise to cast a wide net.</p>

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<p>Berkeley does offer merit scholarships, but most of them have relatively small dollar amounts.</p>

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<p>Went to an RPI orientation for undergraduate applicants a couple of years ago. The administration repeated stated how woman-friendly RPI is and the incentives and academic support that they offer to attract female students. We spoke at length to a female dean. I walked away quite impressed with RPI.</p>

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<p>My list of Top Engineering Programs that offer Good merit scholarships </p>

<p>*<em>Harvery Mudd (8 full tuitions)

  • UT (40 full rides)
    . Georgia Tech (50 full rides)
    . A&M (some full rides, for NMFs & NAS full tuition)
    . USC (some full rides, for NMFs 1/2 tuitions )
  • Rice (some full tuitions)
    . U of Washington (NMF Full tuition)
    . BU (some full tuition, for NMFs 1/2 tuition)
    . U of Rochester (some full tuition to few thousand $s)
  • Cooper Union (1/2 tuition for all admits)
    *</em>FWO (1/2 tuition for all admits)</p>

<p>**Very prestigious Engineering Program

  • Prestigious Engineering program
    . Solid engineering program</p>
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<p>U of Washington does not offer a scholarship for NMF.</p>

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<p>^Thankyou for the correction.</p>

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<p>That’s funny. I visited RPI with my daughter in July. The admissions counselor that gave the info cession said they don’t have any programs for women in the sciences / engineering. He said women at RPI don’t want special treatment. </p>

<p>He also said they don’t have any biomedical engineers teaching the biomed classes because is such a new field. ?!? He said they are taught by mechanical and material engineers. He was a bit of a condescending arse. Kind of turned us off from the school.</p>

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<p>lubock - From the faculty page which I linked below, it looks like there is a mix of disciplines across the RPI Biomed faculty. They have PhD’s in Chem E, Materials, Mechanical, Biology, Physics, Biomedical E, etc. This is probably typical of Biomed Engineering departments. The younger faculty have their degrees in Biomedical Engineering, older faculty do not. The label of their degree matters less than the content of their work, particularly in a an interdisciplinary field such is Biomed.</p>

<p>[People</a> | The Department of Biomedical Engineering](<a href=“http://bme.rpi.edu/people]People”>People | Biomedical Engineering)</p>

<p>There is also a Women in Engineering mentoring program at RPI. Again - I saw this on the website, I don’t personally have much experience with it. However, I can say that the SWE (Society of Women Engineers) chapter in the Albany/Schenectady/Troy area is very active, especially in outreach to the area engineering schools. </p>

<p>[The</a> School of Engineering at Rensselaer](<a href=“http://www.rpi.edu/academics/engineering/programs/wmp.html]The”>http://www.rpi.edu/academics/engineering/programs/wmp.html)</p>

<p>There is a contact name given for the mentoring program.</p>

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<p>@barn9898, curious. Where did you D end up going, and how did she do with merit aid?</p>

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<p>Someone just bump up this old thread and I found there were a couple things I did not respond to @perazziman last year. UMich does offer merit scholarships and the Engineering Scholarship of Honor is $8000/yr for in state and $20,000/yr for OOS. Besides that, there are other merit scholarships university wide that may cover up to a full ride (at least 15 per year). Purdue is also among top engineering schools and it does offer many merit scholarships at $10,000-$20,000 per year. OP’s D has stat above the threshold for these merit aids.
And to @PrepMom, Northwestern only offer $2000/yr to NMF. They do have good need based aids otherwise.
I am also curious where did @barn9898’s daughter end up going.</p>

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<p>UT Austin a safety? Hardly. Check your numbers.</p>

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Where did she go?