<p>Hey what do you guys know about this school? Like how presitiges is this college and do they tend to graduate high motivated engineering students? Do you students get into top grad schools and want companies recruit here?</p>
<p>I've never even heard of it.</p>
<p>Me neither. A quick google search to their website says it's in Boston. All its engineering degrees are engineering technology degrees, with co-op options. It's kind of strange that they have Calc I and II as sophomore courses, with "college math" taken in the freshman year. Most of their programs are ABET accredited, or have some sort of accreditation.</p>
<p>As for your prestige question, I'd say they're not even remotely prestigious, and would be at a disadvantage getting into top grad schools since their curriculum is so math-lite. For MechE, how on earth would you take Thermo before Calc II? A quick check on their scholarship page says that their top scholarships went to a premier group of kids who had an average SAT score of ~1830.</p>
<p>I apologize for my elitism. They will still teach you engineering, and their hands-on curriculum focusing on co-op opportunities seems like it could readily prepare one for going immediately into industry. If you're an average person looking for an engineering technology degree, it seems like a nice place to get one. However, I just can't see a mechanical engineering technology major from there being able to hack the grad school curriculum at MIT or GaTech if they learned thermo before integration.</p>
<p>Instead of applying to WIT, I'd recommend you'd apply to Northeastern University which is adjacent WIT. Its engineering programs are known in the Greater Boston Area and the coop program is excellant! If you have good stats, you can get merit scholarships too!</p>
<p>Yeah wentworth is just a step up from a CC. It would probably be a little lower than a tier 3 school. Based on some of the other schools I've seen you considering I'd say save your money. I never actually visited wentworth, but I don't live that far from it and know people who have visited. They said its a pretty sketchy school.</p>
<p>The one point that I agree with in all the above posts is that if you want prestige, don't go to Wentworth. Traditionally, the school has mostly provided 2-year and other Engineering Technology programs rather than 4-yr. engineering degrees. However, the truth is you shouldn't be so negative about this school, for a couple of reasons:</p>
<p>1) It is evolving for the better. It is adding more professional programs, particularly 4-year degrees, and including some relatively unique programs such as Project (Construction?) Management.</p>
<p>2) It also has a reputation of preparing student for "doing a job", granted without a lot of frills, leading to its second strong point: Wentworth graduates get hired into jobs that pay VERY well.</p>
<p>I do agree that if you are specifically interested in a 4-yr ET program, you should probably look at Northeastern's as well, which is very well-respected.</p>
<p>Beginning in the Fall of 2011, Wentworth will be offering new programs in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering (in addition to Mechanical Engineering Technology and Electronic Engineering Technology).</p>
<p>According to Wentworth, the average starting salary for the 2009 WIT graduate was $48,311.</p>
<p>Their 10-year plan to expand campus and raise its profile is here:</p>
<p>[Wentworth</a> reveals plan to expand campus, raise profile - The Boston Globe](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/12/15/wentworth_reveals_plan_to_expand_campus_raise_profile/]Wentworth”>http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/12/15/wentworth_reveals_plan_to_expand_campus_raise_profile/)</p>
<p>Looking at the sample programs for various majors, several of them start with “college math” or “precalculus” before calculus courses. That implies that WIT does not seem to attract the top, or even average, engineering students.</p>
<p>Wentworth has a history of technician training which morphed into 4-year engineering technology programs. It’s a tradition on hands on learning and required coop semesters. Now they are offering 4-year engineering programs; see for example the curriculum of the new BME program:</p>
<p>[Curriculum</a> : Wentworth Institute of Technology: Electronics & Mechanical Department](<a href=“http://developer.wit.edu/em/biomedical/Curriculum.html]Curriculum”>http://developer.wit.edu/em/biomedical/Curriculum.html)</p>
<p>3 semesters of Calculus starting 1st term, Differential Equations & Systems Modeling, and Biostatistics required.</p>
<p>And yes, WIT often is a place for students w/o the HS profile to get into Northeastern. But WIT does provide their graduates w/ a path to good employment. I think graduates of both schools will tell you that what they learned on their coops was more valuable than the classes.</p>
<p>Wentworth says that it is the lowest cost private college tuition rate in Boston at $22,870 per year (which includes a laptop). Current tuition at Northeastern is $36,360.</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about Wentworth, but my brother-in-law graduated from there @30 years ago in engineering (electrical?, not sure) and is the only one of the family without a graduate degree and earns the most money in his field. He was taught and received excellent co-op opportunities. It sounds like a great school for many normal, average kids that cannot get into top engineering schools. If it was a tier three at one point, I doubt it still is today. My brother-in-law loved his college years there.</p>
<p>I dont know much about Wentworth, but I’d caution you against majoring in XX Technology instead of XX Engineering. It seems like those are looked down upon and it might be harder to get employed later or go to grad school.</p>
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<p>Technology degrees are not engineering degrees - it’s as simple as that. One is not better than the other, they’re just different. If you have a Technology degree, you are not an engineer and cannot perform engineering work. Similarly an engineer is not a technologist. A degree in engineering technology does not qualify you to go to engineering graduate school. There are a few programs for masters degrees in ET.</p>
<p>EE is the better degree. More versatile. An EE could do an EETs job if necessary.</p>
<p>It’s going to be hard to find a company looking for an ET that will hire and EE instead. Why? The EE isn’t going to be satisfied with the work or the salary and will either look to move up in the company or move to another company in a few years. Either way, he’s a “short-timer”.</p>