<p>Is there anyone who knows the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology?
I have seen many reports ranking it as No 1 engineering college,is that true?
It is, in fact, rather unfamiliar to me and I have even never heard it.
My consultant (I am not in US,so it is sort of different) said undergraduates here are easy to find a highly remunerative job in the future.
Someone can help me ?</p>
<p>Up~ Please. Don’t any guys know that?</p>
<p>I know something. My daughter attended a 3 week summer program called Operation Catapult there last summer. It is indeed an engineering college that produces engineers that get jobs. Located in Indiana, it is not in a hopping interesting part of the country. Draws mainly from midwestern states for the student body. Heavily male weighted student body, and fairly politically conservative from my daughter’s experience. School is very STEM focused (unlike, for example, Harvey Mudd, which has some emphasis on the liberal arts as well, or MIT, where you can major in other things besides STEM). Average SAT/ACT scores from incoming students are strong, but not tops in the STEM college pool. But I think they do well in rankings on job placement/salaries because they are pretty much ALL engineers. I thought the facilities looked fine, pretty typical midwestern campus.</p>
<p>You can learn more by searching for “Rose-Hulman Common Data Set” in a search engine.</p>
<p>In terms of average salaries, here is the list from payscale - Rose Hulman does well on the Return on Investment Statistic and starting salary metrics [Rose-Hulman</a> Institute of Technology (RHIT) School Salary, Average Salaries | PayScale](<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/research/US/School=Rose-Hulman_Institute_of_Technology_(RHIT)/Salary]Rose-Hulman”>http://www.payscale.com/research/US/School=Rose-Hulman_Institute_of_Technology_(RHIT)/Salary) </p>
<p>In terms of rankings, it is ranked No. 1 on the US News list of undergraduate engineering schools that do not offer a doctorate (note that the list thus does not include schools such as MIT, Stanford and UC-Berkeley) [Best</a> Undergraduate Engineering Programs | Rankings | US News](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-no-doctorate]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-no-doctorate) </p>
<p>In terms of other factors, intparent has given you some good information. It is a relatively small school with a male-female ratio of approximately 80/20%. It’s in Terre Haute, which has approximately 60,000 residents and about 1 hr 15 minutes from Indianapolis, which has approximately 850,000 residents. If you’re an international student, you might be interested to know that only about 3% of Rose-Hulman students are international, although I believe that the school is interested in adding to that number.</p>
<p>Be sure to visit before enrolling. Be sure to compare it to another small engineering college. If you consider RH, consider IIT in Chicago too; perhaps a better fit with stronger internship/alumni network potential.</p>
<p>Here is information on career placement:</p>
<p>[Recruitment</a> & Employment Statistics - Career Services - Offices & Services | Rose-Hulman](<a href=“404 | Rose-Hulman”>404 | Rose-Hulman)</p>
<p>Thanks all of you. I appreciate them very much.</p>
<p>It has a great reputation and probably very strong academics. It is a very small campus with all the academics in one building or two and just a few dorms. It doesn’t have the sports and other rah!rah! type activities. The kids there were nice, my son just wanted a bigger college experience then what RH would offer.</p>
<p>You might get more help if you tell us why you are considering RH. People might suggest other schools that are a good fit.
RH didn’t make it onto my son’s list because he didn’t like the location. As an international it might be harder for you to assess the those factors?</p>
<p>i want to major in electronic engineering. In fact , I care more about its academic reputation. I do prefer small campus and care about its location less.</p>
<p>I am considering it now because my consultant recommend this college strongly. And does Indiana mean inconvenience? My dream school is MIT or cal tech honestly. But I don’t think I have a good opportunity to be enrolled in such a excellent university. I am now struggling to up my SAT score to about 2350.</p>
<p>What about Harvey Mudd? or WPI? What do you consider to be small?
You can find other small engineering colleges by using a good search tool such as [College</a> Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics](<a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/]College”>College Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics)
Just specify your major and the size of school and any other criteria that matter to you.</p>
<p>Indiana does not mean inconvenience. I’m sure where you live there are big cities and small cities and medium cities. This is a smaller city but definitely a city. It’s not near a major airport but there are a lot of colleges not near the major airport. You would fly into Indianapolis, I think, which is a great airport. Most colleges have shuttles into their schools. there are the typical restaurants, bars, movie theaters, just on a smaller scale. Indiana State University is almost next door. As a side note, my daughter went to a school in an even smaller town and loved it.</p>
<p>A student without a vehicle may not feel as though RHIT is in a city at all. The RHIT campus sits among farms and large rural properties, several miles from town. When we visited 3 years ago there were no commercial establishments close enough to walk.</p>
<p>I know that it’s a REAALLLLY good school… I guess it was ranked quite high among the schools that do not offer Doctorate studies.</p>
<p>Another thing we discovered is that a number of students who get their undergraduate degree from RHIT go on to enroll at RHIT for a master’s degree before taking a permanent job.</p>
<p>But if the “dream schools” (MIT, Caltech) are larger research focused universities like MIT, how does RHI come into the picture as an alternative? It is a totally different type of engineering school. Very small, totally focused on undergrad education etc.
I’m not bashing RHI, if not for the location, my son would have applied there. It is highly regarded in its category.
But I’m just trying to understand why his counselor is pushing it?</p>
<p>BeanTownGirl, I feel the same way, my son would have applied too if it was not for the location. In addition, OP has said nothing about his own social, cultural, ethnic, national and religious background etc. At a large university in a diverse city one can always find people with similar interests and views (sometimes off campus if not on campus). At a small school in an isolated location life can become miserable if one cannot find people to relate to. This is a major factor for OP to consider as a foreign student in my opinion.</p>
<p>@JasperTraum - I think you’d get more advice if you postsed this in the engineering forum. There’s also a lot of previous threads on Rose Hulman in engineering and of course the Rose Hulman forum:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/1129652-rose-hulman-institute-technology-vs-mit.html?highlight=rose+hulman[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/1129652-rose-hulman-institute-technology-vs-mit.html?highlight=rose+hulman</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/1279890-rose-hulman-institute-technology-v-s-gatech-cs-ee.html?highlight=rose+hulman[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/1279890-rose-hulman-institute-technology-v-s-gatech-cs-ee.html?highlight=rose+hulman</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/rose-hulman-institute-technology/1491861-rose-hulman-reviews-comments.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/rose-hulman-institute-technology/1491861-rose-hulman-reviews-comments.html</a></p>
<p>One of my friends is going there next year. I’ll probably hear back from him next school year about it.</p>