U of Minnesota TC or TExas A&M or LAFAYETTE COLLEGE?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Well hello everybody!</p>

<p>I am an international student considering to do my Computer Engineering from any of the 3 places.</p>

<p>Which would be the best option?</p>

<p>I like all of them equally but just cant make up my mind where to go :O</p>

<p>I'll appreciate any help i can get.</p>

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<p>A&M for academics and job placement imo but kinda depends on if you get financial aid at any of the schools as well.</p>

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<p>These are 3 very, very different schools with not much in common. Just saying.</p>

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<p>Well yea i know there different but which one would be best.</p>

<p>Say i costs not a barrier.</p>

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<p>Texas A&M and Minnesota are both very good engineering schools, and would be pretty similar academically. US News ranks Texas A&M #17 and Minnesota #22 for undergraduate engineering. Minnesota’s several thousand dollars a year cheaper: it caps out-of-state (OOS) tuition at $4,000 above the in-state rate, so currently $16,669 for OOS students, as opposed to $24,900 at Texas A&M. Even the Texas A&M rate is comparatively low for OOS tuition, however. I don’t think you’d see much of a difference in job placement prospects, either. Minnesota might place a higher percentage of its class in northern states, Texas A&M more in Texas, but these are both highly respected engineering schools and I doubt engineers coming out of either school have much difficulty finding good jobs. I think the biggest differences would be, do you prefer to be in a major metropolitan area (Minneapolis-St. Paul) or a small college town (College Station, TX); and do you prefer to be in the culture and climate of the northern U.S., or in Texas?</p>

<p>Don’t know much about Lafayette except that it’s agood liberal arts college.</p>

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<p>Well as for climate I’ll wanna go Texas because I can’t survive the northern cold.</p>

<p>But as fir tition fees isn’t Texas a much more linient school when it comes to
scholarship?</p>

<p>They make oos instate from the 2nd or 3rd sem which brings down ur tution
to $10k?</p>

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<p>Lafayette is ranked #21 by USNWR for Undergraduate Engineering where there is no PhD program:</p>

<p><a href=“http://premium.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-no-doctorate/data[/url]”>http://premium.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-no-doctorate/data&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>This comes down to culture and weather.</p>

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<p>Well, culture and weather and whether you want to be in a major urban center or a small town.</p>

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<p>Number of students that received Bachelor Engineering degrees in the last year:
1,146 - Texas A&M
739 - U of Minnesota
141 - Lafayette</p>

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<p>Student/Faculty Ratio:
19 to 1 - Texas A&M
21 to 1 - U of Minnesota
11 to 1 - Lafayette</p>

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<p>Well my preference is TExas A&M, but what if i just talk about Texas and Minnesota?</p>

<p>Which ones better academically and talking of job Prospects?</p>