<p>As for Lehigh, the engineering/business mix is better suited as a graduate degree and there are PLENTY of schools that offer M.S./M.Eng degrees in Engineering Management. So a fresh grad from Lehigh would be competing against folks with M.S./M.Eng in Engineering Management AND WHO ALREADY have experience as an engineer. Pass.</p>
<p>I work in the DC/MD/VA area and do not run into many John Hopkins grads with B.S. degrees. JHU has a HUGE part-time graduate engineering program for working engineers (as well as being aligned with federal agencies to admit employees to the grad programs), so most of the time when you see a JHU grad…they are a graduate school grad. Plus, as the other posters said, I would take a $40K Georgia Tech over a $57K JHU.</p>
<p>University of Alabama is the school as safety net. A school in case money is tight. It is still a good enough school that if you get good grades, you can get into a grad program with a bigger name.</p>