Some UW-Madison and Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) comparisons:
ACT Score
UW-Madison middle 50 for admitted students is 27-31
MSOE average ACT is 25/26
Graduation Rate
UW-Madison College of Engineering graduation rate 85%
MSOE graduation rate 57%
Average Starting Salary
UW-Madison College of Engineering average starting salary $59,000
MSOE average starting salary $57,512 for engineering students
Job Placement Rate
UW-Madison: 94% job placement or graduate school
MSOE: 96% job placement/grad school/military of the 89% of 2013 graduates who reported data
COA
UW-Madison nonresident engineering $46k
MSOE $48k
Number of Current Engineering Students
UW-Madison 5,000 undergraduates, 700 Masters, 900 PhD
MSOE 2400 undergraduates, 200 Masters (no PhD program)
Very, very little and what aid is available requires seperate scholarship applications. D was accepted with 36 ACT and strong grades and did not get a penny. In fact, they require students apply to their honors college rather than just offering a spot based on the students application.
@Wje9164be Thanks for the info. Glad that my D did not even bother to apply for scholarships there.
@Madison85 Is that graduation rate for 6 year or 4 year? The 4 year graduation rate at UW-Madison should be much lower than that.
It’s not the 4 year rate. It could be the 6 year or 6 year+ rate. For MSOE 57% is the 8 year graduation rate and 56% is the 6 year rate.
My younger daughter (in state for UW-Madison) was offered very good financial aid (combination of need and merit) but only because she had extremely high stats (35 ACT, 2350 SAT, 4.0 GPA, top of her large high school class) and our family income was very low the year she would have started at Madison. It was our understanding that getting this offer was very atypical. She ended up going to an out-of-state LAC and received sufficient need-based aid to make the overall cost quite reasonable.
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My younger daughter (in state for UW-Madison) was offered very good financial aid (combination of need and merit) but only because she had extremely high stats (35 ACT, 2350 SAT, 4.0 GPA,
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I think the key is “instate”.
Was any of her aid need-based as well?
She said it was a combination of merit and need.
Under the now defunct Wisconsin Covenant program, her daughter could have received up to a $2500 grant per year (this is nother need abd merit). If she was at the top of her WI high school class, she would have received the $2250 x 4 years WI Academic Excellence Scholarship (merit). If EFC was $12k or less, she would have received $3000 Madison Initiative Grant.
Oh, definitely the in state aspect was key. As was the fact that we were very low income at the time. So, really high stats, very low income and in state. Most people don’t have that combo.
Yes, there are a few states where being instate and having that combo can mean super aid at their best publics.
(My typo should say that the WI Covenant grant is both need and merit).