<p>I dont think you can go wrong with either. My parents are from the UK, and both studied there. Mom is a chemical engineer, and dad is a mechanical engineer. We moved to the US when I was a child, and I studied mechanical engineering here. Also, my parents are always saying that their education prepared them very well for their jobs here in the US. I can also tell you that any ABET accredited school in the US is going to prepare students well for careers.</p>
<p>So, the more important question probably is what country does he want to stay in after studying, since a lot of internationals dont go home? Cost of attendance aside, there's the question you need to answer.</p>
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Most people who do engineering in the UK actually do stay on for a 4th year. If you actually want to become an engineer in the UK (as opposed to using the degree to do something else) you really need to do the optional 4th year to get an MEng. It's a way of getting what is known as an 'undergraduate masters', an MA for the price of a BA really
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<p>In order to qualify for Chartered Engineer status in the UK (equivalent to P.E. in the US), one actually has to get an MEng. As a result, the 3-year BEng degree is being largely phased out in the top universities. Both Cambridge and Oxford don't offer it anymore; Imperial still does, but most students choose the 4-year option instead.</p>
<p>LOL dconcerned, are you joking? i went to a British high school and I know a lot about British universities. Imperial is trash, they take people with 3A's in A level and 3A's in A levels is so easy to achieve it's not even funny. If your son goes to Imperial then he will regret for life as he will earn much less money than if he went to an American school like Cornell. If he goes to Cornell, he would probably end up making TWICE the amount of money. So unless he doesn't care about money, i would recommend an American school. I personally go to U of Michigan for Engineering and I would strongly suggest our engineering school as well. It's very challenging and our graduates are well prepared for their post-college careers. The mean salary for our Computer Engineers is 71000USD and from what I know, no UK schools can even come close to matching that. Engineering in America is the way to go!</p>
<p>And yea, if your son got into Oxbridge, then it's a different story. These 2 schools are legit and they are very good. Any other UK school is a HUGE step down. Sorry for all the UK bashing but I just want to speak the truth.</p>
<p>US 100%. I go to an international school in vienna where 90% of the kids go to the uk and only a handful go to the US. I chose US over UK because the US system allows you more time to choose you exact major. In the UK, u go straight in to the major and transferring out is rather difficult. Also ICL is in the middle of london, there is simply no college vibe. </p>
<p>I wud definitely recommend Cornell, which I am applying to this year.</p>
<p>Sorry for diggin up an old post but I had to reply. Let me start by saying I am biased as I am a soon to be Imperial graduate in mechanical engineering.</p>
<p>To 852wolverine: One bank in London exclusively hires people from Imperial Comp Sci (yes not even Cambridge Comp Sci, which is in some cases regarded as inferior to Imperial's, will land you an interview). Getting into finance with these sort of degrees in London will land you a starting salary between £30k upto £70k (I have friends from civil and mechanical engineering who have landed these kinds of salaries, Comp Sci will be even higher) so you obviously have no idea what you are talking about.</p>
<p>To d4rk4ce, sure you lose the campus vibe but seriously you're in the middle of London, is doesn't really get more social than that. We have amongst the highest number of societies for any university in the UK and again did I say we're situatet smack in the middle of one of the biggest cities in the world.
Of course people from Vienna go to Imperial when they only have to pay £3000 per year compared to insane US fees.</p>
<p>With regards to easy entrance, Imperial is going to have the highest entry standards for some courses starting next year, possibly excluding Oxbridge's gruesome interview process. Cambridge also takes people with 3As as well as US universities so I have no idea wath wolverine is talking about.</p>
<p>I’m currently a senior at NCSU. I’m majoring in communication-media. I want to work in the field of marketing and news media. I’ve already worked at some well known companies as an intern, and am working on improving my resume, since the job market is extremely competitive for college grads right now. I just learned that if I take an additional 4 classes I can graduate with a B.A in communication as well as a BA in English- (LWR) linguistics and rhetoric. I currently have a minor- but just the general English minor. The questions I have are: will it be beneficial or look better when applying to grad school or for jobs to have a double major? I just wanted some opinions. Thanks so much!</p>
<p>I am in the same dilemma- Cornell,imperial,carnegie,upenn. Actually I want to do Aeronautical Engineering for which imperial is really respected. Cornell, carnegie dont offer aeronautical, so i applied for mechanical. In addition i have to pay almost same fee for imperial or cornell. Although i have applied to MIT also but chances are extremely low as i am an international student. And i have heard that imperial sends a small no. of students from Aero department to mit in 3rd year. So, i am inclined to imperial. Also, imperial offers 4yr mtech, while US offers 4yr btech. So, if i go to imperial then i will save 2yrs.
So, kindly tell me where i should go</p>
<p>With exception to Cornell, all Ivy-league engineering programs are not the shining beacons of engineering. (Another exception to this is Priceton’s graduate magnetoplasmadynamics laboratory though this is a very small tight-knit group)</p>
<p>I have a good college friend from college (one of the best students at one of the top engineering schools) who is doing his (accelerated 3 year) PhD on a civil engineering fellowship in Imperial College in London. From what I understand, the program is taught a lot differently than a US engineering program. If I remember correctly, the education is more application-based and hands on than what he was used to for undergrad. He said he was using “guided Lamb waves” to detect defects in plates. Hmm… I’m not sure why everyone needs to use fancy terms for transverse waves, but whatevs.</p>
<p>But yeah, don’t get sucked into this Ivy-league hype for engineering.</p>
<p>I haven’t read all of the posts but can add my two cents…</p>
<p>A lot depends on the end goal of your child. I don’t think Imperial carries the name recognition of some of the Ivy league schools on the international seen, but being in a graduate program now and working with a few kids from Imperial I can say that they had, a better engineering education than nearly any program I’ve seen from the states. They packed a ton of work into the 4 years at Imperial (everyone I know from there got a masters from there as well) and came into grad school well ahead of just about everyone when it came to math and engineering courses.</p>
<p>With that being said, its all math and engineering there. You get zero breadth whatsoever, which to me is a major detractor of the program.</p>