<p>Hey guys! I've done some research but I dont exactly know the best schools around Ohio. Could you guys point me in the right direction? I know its a little late for looking for colleges but I've had some family issues that have came up and I was just distracted, Thank you!</p>
<p>Also what do you guys think in possibly double majoring in Engineering and Business Management?</p>
<p>Case Western and Ohio State come to mind as good engineering schools in Ohio, probably in that order. Somewhere trailing behind them is Cincinnati, though I am much less familiar with their program.</p>
<p>I’d also say it is a bad idea to double major in anything, especially business management. Business management as an undergraduate degree is a joke and largely useless, as even most business professors will tell you. Just do the one degree, go get some work experience and then come back for an MBA.</p>
<p>Yeah I did look into Ohio State but ill for sure look into Case Western! Oh really? Thats what someone else told me too but that’s why I posted it. Just out of curiousness why is it useless?</p>
<p>It is useless because who wants a manager with no experience? You don’t hire managers who have degrees in management and no experience in the field. You hire managers who have degrees in disciplines related to their employees and with experience in the field they will be managing.</p>
<p>I grew up in Ohio and Case Western was always drilled into us (during my high-school years) as a great school for engineering with Ohio State just behind by a hair. U-Cincinnati was also mentioned because it had required co-ops but I don’t know if that has changed.</p>
<p>I think we need a sticky on this forum about being an engineer and going into management. It is just WAY TOO MANY POSTS that reads like folks are misinformed on the topic. It’s like folks think that taking extra business courses or double majoring/minoring in business or getting an engineering degree with an immediate MBA is going to put them in the corner office.</p>
<p>For the 1000th time…</p>
<p>YOU WILL NOT MANAGE EXPERIENCED ENGINEERS (20+ years) WITHOUT ALSO HAVING 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE YOURSELF…REGARDLESS IF YOU TOOK ONE BUSINESS COURSE OR A FULL-BLOWN MBA.</p>
<p>Well, rankings put OSU ahead of Case these days, at least at the graduate level where they are like number five or something for engineering spending.</p>
<p>I go to OSU and I recommend it.</p>
<p>well let me tell you something,any ABET accredited school is your best choice.
an ABET accredited school will provide you high-quality education as much as any other school.
I don’t believe in rankings anymore and some 1 told me that some schools don’t accept to ranked at all.
so Case will be a waste of money for the undergraduate level , go for it in the Graduate level.
I am going to Cleveland State University “Fenn college of engineering”.
it’s really a solid school in Engineering and there are tons of smart students there , go for its website and check it out.</p>
<p>my last advice:
save your extra money for the Graduate school.</p>
<p>What YYaaSSeeRR just said is incredibly misleading. Yes, any ABET-accredited program will meet some base level of competence that is generally considered the baseline for what all engineers should know, so you should still be able to find a job even out of the small, unknown programs. Your options will be quite limited by comparison to the larger and more well-known programs, however.</p>
<p>Larger programs, like Ohio State, and more well-known programs, like Case Western, will have a much larger recruiting footprint, i.e. there will be more companies that target the school for recruiting by coming to campus for career fairs and interviews. Many companies have a list of target schools that they typically hire from and they tend to be the “top” schools.</p>
<p>In terms of graduate school, you can certainly get into the top programs even if you come from the smaller, less known programs of the world, but it will be more difficult. Graduate school do tend to weight your application at least a little bit based on the perceived difficulty and level of rigor of your undergraduate institution. Having a 3.4 from a top program is going to look better than a 3.4 from some unknown school.</p>
<p>Finally, the bigger programs and the more well-perceived programs tend to have a larger selection of elective classes to choose from than the smaller or less known programs. That means you have more choices when trying to specialize or branch out into different areas in your field than what would be available at a school that offers little beyond what is required for accreditation. That can help with landing certain jobs and in deciding on and landing research positions in graduate school.</p>
<p>So yes, you can become an engineering and find a job somewhere by going to any ABET-accredited engineering program. Your options will still be more limited (at least initially) compared to the larger programs. There are always exceptions, of course, but the above is generally the case.</p>
<p>OSU has awesome reputation (and entertaining athletics) and Columbus is quite livable. CWRU (likely on DD2’s list) is smaller (DD2’s high school is larger than CWRU undergrad) and more focused. Also UC, co-op and all, is a very good school. I’ve worked with grads from all 3 and they’re pretty good. Cinci is also quite livable.</p>
<p>OSU has Ohio’s best eng college but the city is a featureless dump. Cincinnati/N Ky is a way better place to live but their eng college isn’t in the same league.</p>
<p>So would you say Case or OSU has a better reputation with employers?</p>
<p>a lot of people who go to well-known graduate programs come from small colleges.
that’s what I meant.
the Case western tuition is 40 k and I think this is soooo much,I would go to MIT instead.</p>
<p>Well, coming from the Cleveland area, that was my issue with Case Western…the cost. I always thought Case was overpriced and not “known enough”. I would rather attend a big 'ole “state flagship” school and spend less than attend Case.</p>
<p>Case would have cost more for me (and I grew up 15 minutes away from Case) than Michigan State (my undergrad alma-mater) and I was paying (well, my Dad was paying, hehe) out-of-state rates.</p>
<p>…and Michigan State is not on the engineering/math/sciences level of most of the other Big-10 schools and I was still hired right out of college.</p>
<p>“Overpriced” word doesn’t do the job dude :)</p>
<p>I would go to the MIT with that amount of money.</p>
<p>If you believe the CWRU cost of attendance calculator and posts on their forum it’s quite generous…</p>
<p>I, too, would take Cincy over Columbus but Columbus is fairly decent compared to other Big 10 locations…</p>