<p>For 08 lists Lafayette ranked in top 15 for most engineering fields. This is for Colleges not for Universities with PhD programs. Lafayette is harder to get into than Purdue and is also a Liberal Arts College. It is also ranked as one of the best values.</p>
<p>I hate these top school lists. It all depends on you and what you want from your degree. I dont think i would be happier at MIT with C grades. </p>
<p>This list is very politicized.</p>
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please can anybody help me with the ranking of Lafayette college for engineering.......why does it not figure in the first fifteen ...</p>
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<p>"During the 2006-2007 academic year, President Daniel Weiss agreed to boycott the controversial Peer Assessment in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, which accounts for 25% of a school's overall ranking.[25] Lafayette and eleven other colleges, working with Lloyd Thacker of the Education Conservancy, created a petition calling for a boycott of the reputational survey as well as a refusal to use the rankings to promote a college or to indicate its quality.[26] 63 college and university presidents have signed the letter. Predictably, Lafayette College's ranking fell from #30 in 2007 to #34 in 2008."</p>
<p>Lafayette</a> College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>What about Operations Research and Engineering?</p>
<p>Does that count? it probably doesn't because of how much it leans towards business.</p>
<p>what would you say for Lafayette college ranking ..................??</p>
<p>so the rankings dont go past 20 for the specialties? </p>
<p>does ranking matter that much for undergrad? i want to do civil engineering or environmental engineering, and am looking at UCSD... and although UCSD is a good engineering school overall, they dont break the top 20 for those to specialties. will this be a problem if i'm trying to get a job right after undergrad, or want to apply to a top grad school after college?</p>
<p>Hey, so University of Illinois is top3 according to:</p>
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<p>How accurate is this thing? I mean, USNEWS ranks UIUC lower than it is ranked in the world. </p>
<p>I know UIUC has a top-notch engineering program, but I doubt it's top3, with only MIT and Stanford ahead of it. I dont have anything against UIUC, Im just curious. In fact, I'm a UIUC student myself.</p>
<p>Rankings are subjective.</p>
<p>Thanks for the complete listing of engineering specialty rankings for 2009. Do you happen to have the complete list for the Engineering Science/Engineering Physics discipline? Page 1 only lists the top 6.</p>
<p>Can someone please give a list of the top universities for nuclear engineering? It was there in the 2008 list, can't see it in the new one :(</p>
<p>there is another set of rankings by US news and one of these is obviously incorrect. Which one is correct?</p>
<p>They’re different years.</p>
<p>My daughter has been accepted at both for chemical engineering. Cost is a significant issue. Everything tells me CMU is the better choice; but is it that significant of a drop if she has a masters degree from Lafayette?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure Lafayette doesn’t offer masters degrees.</p>
<p>My son got accepted to RPI, University of Toronto, McGill, Queen University, University of Waterloo and Boston University in ECE, RPI gave him 40K over 4 years, University of Toronto and McGill University seem to have the best raking, any suggestion?</p>
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No - not being in the top 20 (out of thousands) doesn’t mean you won’t find a job or be able to go to grad school. UCSD ranks highly in engineering and its grads are generally well positioned. Many grads receive multiple job offers. Also relevant is how you performed in the major, what additional experience you acquire through internships, etc., and how well you interview - i.e. your interpersonal skills.</p>
<p>I have it on good authority from Canadian friends that Waterloo is considered the best engineering school in Canada. I also work with some excellent engineers from Canada who attended Queens, I believe that school is well-regarded for engineering also. Don’t know about the engineering programs at Toronto and McGill particularly but certainly they are very well-regarded universities overall. If I was primarily interested in engineering I would probably pick RPI over Boston U., mainly because of the overwhelming commitment there to science and technology, but my understanding is that BU ain’t too bad either, I’ve worked with a couple of good engineers from there as well. So the good news anyway is that you have a lot of solid choices. But if I had to pick one in Canada and one in the US from your list for engineering, I guess I would say Waterloo and RPI.</p>
<p>I’m an international student from Dominica and i plan on applying for the Fall 2010 semester at a school in the US. My current majors at my country’s community college are Biology and Chemistry and I’m interested in applying to a decent BME program. Im not super smart but i’d say im an above average student.</p>
<p>Id like to know about schools with decent BME programs preferrably from people with first hand experience and also id like to know about the Grove School of Engineering @ CCNY…is the BME program there any good?</p>
<p>Please help…the requested information has so far proved hard to find and i want to get on with my decision and application process very early.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>The thing is, there are a ton of decent BME programs in the US. Based on just that it’s hard to know even where to start. The BME programs at almost all state flagship universities are very decent, as are a whole range of private schools. I don’t know about the specific school you mentioned. However, if you are interested in NY state and finances are an issue with you, SUNY schools (University at Buffalo, Binghamton University, and Stony Brook University) are well worth looking into.</p>