<p>It’s actually just under 60% with only a few percent to graduate school. Georgia Tech’s is 90% placement when you include industry + graduate school.</p>
<p>If you want to put Embry Riddle at the same level of Clemson, I’m fine with that. The argument was whether or not it’s a Top 10 school when included in with the doctorate-granting schools. Clearly, it is not (and neither is Clemson). Not to say that it’s a bad school, just that it’s not a “top” school.</p>
<p>GP Burdell can you show me the statistics for Georgia Tech?</p>
<p>Also, keep in mind that the OP has a 3.4 GPA from a COMMUNITY COLLEGE so I’m not sure if a school like Georgia Tech would accept the OP</p>
<p>Yea I’m not looking into Georgia tech, but 60 % is really low. I’m sure most schools will be well above that. I usually here schools being close to 90 % for engineering, even if they aren’t highly ranked schools. It seems like even Arizona state or something would be higher than 60%.</p>
<p>well I would contact the aerospace engineering department at each school by email (including Embry Riddle) and ask for the most current job placement rates. When I asked my colleges for job placement rate, they were very helpful and provided me with all the data I needed.</p>
<p>If Embry Riddle is struggling with placing aerospace engineers while before the recession it had a 90% placement rate, then this situation MAY be happening at other schools around the country.</p>
<p>I will definitely ask someone at erau about that because that seems way to low. I wonder if they’re required to put that information on their site or something. I’m surprised they would want people to see that haha</p>
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<p>The argument isn’t about the OP - it’s about the statement that Embry Riddle is as good or better than the Top 10 AE programs with doctorates.</p>
<p>GP Burdell, the point is not to debate whether Embry Riddle is in the top 10, it’s about finding the best school for the OP (obviously you aren’t reading the title of this thread)
the debate just came up because I thought that the OP could benefit by going to Embry Riddle instead of other top engineering schools that the OP could go to.</p>
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<p>If we’ve resolved that ERU is not in the Top 10 overall AE programs, maybe the OP should post his SAT scores so we can make a call among all AE programs.</p>
<p>we haven’t resolved this and this will never be resolved because many people have different opinions about about what schools are “top 10” for AE</p>
<p>anyways lets stop this nonsense and help the OP out, what schools should the OP be looking at? btw the OP is a transfer student so SAT scores are not too important</p>
<p>It’s looking like maybe Purdue and Virginia tech i guess?</p>
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<p>Many schools consider SAT scores for transfers. If his SATs are high enough, he can get into GT with a 3.5 GPA from a CC.</p>
<p>again norris212, I would email the aerospace engineering rate at all the school’s you are considering (even Embry Riddle if you’re still interested) and ask about the graduate placement rate after college (from 2007-2009)</p>
<p>Norris…here is the USNews of top 20 aero/astro programs. I would stick with this list, and maybe add Cal Poly-SLO, unless you really are interestered in aeronautics (in which case ERU may be your place). Some of these schools are not that hard to get accepted to…but all will require great commitment to <em>stay</em> in. I will add that at an undergrad level, I would suggest majoring in MechE instead of Aero…it will increase your options if you decide not to go to grad school. </p>
<p>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
2 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
3 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
4 Purdue University–West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN
5 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
6 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL
7 Stanford University Stanford, CA
8 University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX
9 University of Maryland–College Park College Park, MD
10 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA
11 Cornell University Ithaca, NY
Princeton University Princeton, NJ
Texas A&M University–College Station College Station, TX
14 Pennsylvania State University–University Park University Park, PA
15 University of Florida Gainesville, FL
16 University of Colorado–Boulder Boulder, CO
17 University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
19 University of Washington Seattle, WA</p>
<p>Thanks for the tip. I was almost thinking about doing a double major in AE/ME. And im definitely going to stick with that list, the main thing I was curious about was which ones would accept me with a 3.4 or 3.5. And GP Burdell, I checked on the SAT scores and all of the colleges only ask for them if you have less than 30 semester units or so, I will have over 70.</p>
<p>norris212, if youa re thinking about doubling in AE that basically means Embry Riddle is out of the picture. If you combine the top 20 schools for AE and ME you get the following schools on top:</p>
<p>California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo (shouldn’t be too hard to transfer into)
United States Naval Academy
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
Georgia Institute Of Technology
University Of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Purdue University - West Lafayette
California Institute Of Technology
University Of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Stanford University
University Of Texas - Austin</p>
<p>I don’t know how hard it is to transfer into Purdue but for freshmen it isn’t hard at all. I’d say Purdue and Cal Poly would probably be your 2 best options</p>
<p>Cool thanks. Cal Poly is my top choice right now since I’m in California. So I will definitely go there if I get accepted.</p>
<p>It appears that some of the above posters are confused about degree programs and their content. As both pierre and norris repeatedly point out, aeronautical science is not an aerospace engineering degree at any university. And I really don’t think
That’s really a bizarre supposition. Sort of equates with “if engineering majors take a basketweaving course, then US News probably gets the two degrees mixed-up in their analysis and rankings”.</p>
<p>I definitely don’t think that they intertwined the rating or whatever. But, GP Burdell did bring up one good point about how employment numbers for engineering graduates at ERAU are really low, which I cant explain.</p>
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<p>Public schools with large Chemistry and Calculus classes are penalized in the chemical engineering rankings. Schools with top statistics and mathematics programs are benefited in the industrial engineering rankings. So I wouldn’t be surprised if the same held for AE.</p>
<p>U of Maryland at College Park (also look at UM at B.C.) has great aerospace program; I met with some students and they know there stuff. And they have their own wind tunnel!</p>