<p>well here's my source:</p>
<p>On-Campus</a> Recruiting : University Students : Careers : GE</p>
<p>What I was referring to is how a company 'rates' certain colleges, not just a list of the colleges they go to recruit. </p>
<p>Also, the largest companies have offices all over the country, so recruiting locally would involve different regions for each office.</p>
<p>Well I think the fact that GE (or any preferred college list) recruits at specifically these colleges show that they highly value the quality of engineers coming out of that college.</p>
<p>Any list is by far not inclusive but one can be confident that you have the opportunity to lend a good job at a good company if you focus in your studies at any one of those schools (even UMass-Lowell for example)</p>
<p>Caltech 10char</p>
<p>Its surprising that nobody mentioned UIUC. UIUC has strong ties with the companies listed.</p>
<p>I hate to bring this up but here is The Princeton Review list for Best Career/Job Placement Resources:
(I'm only listing schools that have engineering)
This list is definitely not inclusive but you'll get a good shot at landing a good job at any of these schools:</p>
<p>Northeastern University
The University Of Texas At Austin
Pennsylvania State University - University Park
Rose-Hulman Institute Of Technology
Clemson University
University Of Virginia
University Of Notre Dame
Yale University
University Of Florida
Cornell University
Smith College
Villanova University</p>
<p>What about Florida Institute of Technology? I want to have their connections with NASA,LM, Boeing in detail..</p>
<p>Pierre, the PR is a student-generated rating. That is not to say that those schools do not have great career offices, but PR rankings should be taken with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>I know but that shows that in some ways those schools have good career offices
but obviously the list is not representative of all good career offices</p>
<p>this is a great thread. i just have a quick question: why doesn't caltech have an undergrad aerospace major program? they only have it as a minor option. this fact along with it not being on rogracer's list really surprises me, does anyone have a reason?</p>
<p>^well i believe it is up to the school if they want to have a certain major or nor.</p>
<p>Well, if you want to do aerospace at Caltech, what you do is major in MechE and minor in aerospace. For fun, I checked one of the old catalogs for what courses an Aerospace engineering major required. Turns out, they're virtually identical. All that really changed was the name. I have several friends majoring in MechE and planning on getting the Aero minor their senior year, in order to get get a job at some of the aforementioned companies.</p>
<p>What about Florida Institute of Technology? I want to know their connections with NASA,LM, Boeing in detail..</p>
<p>macca....Lockheed has no "special connection" with FIT...but I know of a few of their grads that we have hired.</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply rogracer! I have one more question.
Does LM prefer people who have graduate degree or people who only have bachelor's degree? say if I go to FIT for my undergraduate and get into one of the list of schools you mentioned.. what do you think?</p>
<p>macca...we hire engineers with just a BS degree, but, in general, a master's degree is preferred..and bumps you up a labor grade right from the start. If we hire you with just a bachelors, we will "strongly encourage" (pressure) you start an extension master's program while you are working full time (the GaTech program is the most popular).</p>
<p>If you want to go to FIT for a BS, that's completely fine...you will just have to work yourself through the conventional interview process rather than having any on-campus interaction with us.</p>
<p>Purdue, Georgia Tech, and UCLA</p>
<p>UCSD has pretty decent connections with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman. All 3 visit the campus during each terms career fair.</p>
<p>I read that LM reimburses a fraction of the university tuition cost if you intern and subsequently get employed there. </p>
<p>Can you clarify/elaborate rogracer?</p>
<p>Thanks for this list! My son is a junior and really wants to major in aerospace engineering. Three of the schools he is interested in are on your most heavily targeted list: UCLA, University of Colorado at Boulder, and California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo. Good to know and it helps to know he is headed in the right direction. We live in LA so two of those schools are in California, but he is also very interested in Colorado.</p>