<p>I am just curious about the undergraduate umich engineering selectivity compared to other top universities. Is it also true that it is more selective than LSA admission?</p>
<p>Also, is Michigan engineering that hard + time consuming? I heard it practices grade deflation? I read some post on CC that said engineering is much harder than the competitive BBA Ross business major? (not sure if this is true)</p>
<p>Thank You for answering my questions!</p>
<p>Of course the Engineering school is more difficult, it’s simply a more difficult subject. Topics like basic accounting and finance can be fairly easily learnt online. Electrical Engineering, not so much…</p>
<p>engineering classes are usually more time consuming and thus more difficult than the business courses. Most of the engineering classes are curved to a B-(2.7), sometimes B. So yes grade deflation is pretty prevalent. Most business classes are usually curved to a B+ or even an A-, and they’re fairly straightforward. So there’s no really no comparison between the two.</p>
<p>Are you asking about quality or selectivity? In terns of quality (academic strength, quality of faculty, quality of facilities, endowment, professional placement, graduate placement, prestige etc…), Michigan is clearly one of the top 15 universities in the US, arguably one of the top 10. Michigan’s CoE is definitely one of the top 10 in the nation and arguably one of the top 5.</p>
<p>In terms of selectivity, it is one of the top 30, but not one of the top 15, although this is probably going to change in the next 2 - 3 years as Michigan experiences the full effect of having joined the common application. </p>
<p>So are you asking about quality or selectivity?</p>
<p>I was asking about both, and thanks for sincerely answering all my questions !
More answers would be appreciated</p>
<p>What does ‘better’ mean.</p>
<p>If we look at the top 25 or so E-schools. All have highly qualified student bodies. All have many professors who are excellent teachers and some who are … ahem … less than excellent.</p>
<p>For an ABET school, all have curricula which are largely the same. Generally, all participate in the same inter-school competitions, most with adequate funding.</p>
<p>So, if we’re talking about an educational standpoint, we’re basically talking about ‘fit’. Some students will do better in a larger school, like Michigan, others will prosper more in a smaller setting. Some will prefer a University Model (i.e., Michigan, Cornell, Princeton, Stanford, NU, many others) some will prefer an “Institute” (i.e., MIT Cal Tech, etc. etc.).</p>
<p>One can judge ‘better’ by job/graduate student placement success. However, I’m not sure how much this has been quantified across schools. Even then, there may be ‘regional placement vs national placement.’</p>
<p>All in all, Mich is a top school, and is ranked highly by any objective standard. Whether it is right for any specific student, who has many choices, is a much more complicated question.</p>