<p>Lets compare the engineering programs at Syracuse and Cornell..
What makes Cornell's program better. Is it because of just prestige? What advantages does going to one school give over the other?</p>
<p>Are you asking which is ranked higher as an overall school, or which has a better Engineering Program?</p>
<p>A prestigious school looks good on a resume. Top notch companies recruit from prestigious schools.</p>
<p>better recruitment and more resources</p>
<p>just do a search instead of asking a question that has been answered billion times in billion ways</p>
<p>if you're willing to work hard for 4 years, have a probabilistically better life, then go to Cornell, if you can't handle the hard work or you're not smart enough, go wherever you feel you'll be happy.</p>
<p>A degree from Cornell is priceless, for example, the average salary for a fresh graduate in computer science from Cornell is around 70,000 $, where the average salary for a fresh computer science graduate in the US is 50,000 $. you choose for yourself. But that doesn't mean that everyone who graduates from a state school will be unsuccessful.</p>
<p>Let's hope not! ;) Campus recruitement is a plus at prestigeous schools. One other thing to consider in engineering, though, is your peer group. From all of the engineering students I know in different colleges, grading in done on a curve. You will probably have a tougher peer group at Cornell than at Syracuse. It has been debated many times whether you can get a better gpa at a less prestigeous university vs whether state schools have weed-out courses, but if you plan on grad or professional school, be sure you can get a good gpa wherever you go.</p>
<p>This has been discussed about a week ago already.</p>
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<p>I agree with others that recruitment and resources are significant factors.</p>
<p>The other factor would be the networking. I suppose one could count that as part of 'resources'. Surely we've all heard the phrase: "It's not what you know, it's who you know". The truth of the matter is, a lot (probably most) hiring is accomplished through social networks. Many (probably most) available jobs are never publicly posted, but are available only to those people who know the right insiders. Even if a job is publicly posted, that job may still be effectively only available to those who know somebody on the inside. </p>
<p>Let me give you some examples. Let's face it. Steve Ballmer is CEO of Microsoft basically because he was poker-playing buddies with Bill Gates in Currier House at Harvard. In other words, when Microsoft was still a small company and Bill Gates decided he needed somebody to help him run the company, he immediately thought of his old college pal. Maybe somebody else out there was more qualified than Ballmer for that job. But that doesn't matter, because that somebody else didn't have a social connection to Bill Gates. That social connection was the key. In other words, if Ballmer had decided to go to another school, he would have never met Bill Gates, and he would be neither CEO of Microsoft nor a billionaire right now. </p>
<p>As another case in point, many (I think most) of the early employees at Google just happened to be old Stanford buddies of Brin and Page. Similarly, many of the early employees at Yahoo were old Stanford buddies of Yang and Filo. These guys, if they vested their pre-IPO stock options, were surely laughing all the way to the bank. In short, if they had never gone to Stanford, they would have never had the opportunity to join those startups, and consequently, they wouldn't be rich right now.</p>
<p>high tuition can motivate you to work harder to earn more money in the future to pay the debt</p>
<p>Self confidence. I think the largest difference is the greater self confidence one has when they are proud of the school they go to. I think it's much more psychological than anything else as long as the programs are accredited.</p>