<p>Sorry for the duplicate post</p>
<p>UA Undergrad Engineering ranked # 92</p>
<p>AU Undergrad Engineering ranked # 57</p>
<p>UAH not ranked</p>
<p>2009:
Auburn Engineering - 64
Alabama was unranked</p>
<p>Other SEC schools:
Florida 26th (3.5)
Vanderbilt 40th (3.2)
Auburn 64th (2.8)
LSU 85th</p>
<p>Other schools typically thought of as good engineering schools (and some of these would be more highly regarded in their regions):
MIT -1 (4.9); Texas A&M - 17th (3.8); Iowa State - 37th (3.3);
Case Western - 45th (3.1); Clemson 57th (2.9); </p>
<p>New US News Rankings will come out in a month or so.</p>
<p>I look at the rankings but not always sure what they mean. You need to look at the methodolgy used for the various rankings.</p>
<p>It really has become more important where you go to grad school. No matter where you go to undergrad…get excellent grades and score well on the standardized exams. The go to the absolute best grad school that accepts you.</p>
<p>I am an alum of a school ranked 76th in engineering and it has never been an issue. One of the worst hires we ever made was from one of the schools currently ranked number 2.</p>
<p>Alabama has moved up my younger son’s list as a possibility.</p>
<p>Would you have a problem with UAH particularly in Aerospace?</p>
<p>Certainly with Bama’s new facilities, its rankings will go up.</p>
<p>Sen. Shelby has said that when complete its facilities will rival whatever any other college has in the US.</p>
<p>As for UAH…its lack of ranking is irrelevant. UAH has an excellent engineering school. Those kids get a lot of hands-on experience, internships and co-ops (because of Cummings Research Park) and jobs after graduation. </p>
<p>Contrast that with my son’s friend who graduated from Columbia with a degree in engineering 14 months ago and is still without out a job. Talk about Buyers Remorse.</p>
<p>Ethalo, </p>
<p>Were those rankings for Undergraduate or Graduate Engineering programs? I wouldn’t be surprised if those are indeed Undergrad rankings, though I am surprised that both UA and AU would fall in the rankings given the recent facility improvements at both schools. </p>
<p>Someone on another thread suggested that UA’s new facilities will not be as helpful in improving its rankings, as improving its faculty would be. That is true, but because UA is one of the few schools that is currently able (financially healthy enough) to hire A LOT of new professors, it is the beneficiary of a buyer’s market in academia. So UA should not have trouble improving its rankings across a wide array of disciplines, including Engineering.</p>
<p>Atlanta68,</p>
<p>Those are undergrad.</p>
<p>However, you have to look at the methodology:</p>
<p>“The U.S. News rankings of undergraduate engineering programs accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology are based solely on the peer judgments of deans and senior faculty who rated each program they are familiar with on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished). Engineering school deans and faculty members (two at each engineering program) were surveyed for this ranking in spring
2009”</p>
<p>Its a survey. Someone may be familar with an instituiton but not know about the new planned facilities etc. or newly completed facilities. May have more to do with who the respondents know at given schools then much else.</p>
<p>azcpamom, I feel your pain. I have twins…one went to UA (the good child!) and the other to AU (bad child!). Their dad and I have degrees from UA and a great love for the Crimson Tide!
But we did grow to like Auburn very much. To me, the fact that it was in a small town made the campus seem smaller and more intimate. There is not as much emphasis on Greek life at AU, so if you choose NOT to go Greek or are dropped from recruitment, you don’t feel like it’s the end of the world. Not that it is at UA, but you think it is for the first 24 hours.</p>
<p>I felt AU cared more about the student. DS knew his advisor and could rely on him/her for good advice. At UA, just like when I was in school, you had better know what’s required for your major and fight to get it, because no advisor is going to give a d!mn. And AU offers, I think, more practical-application majors.</p>
<p>But I still felt UA had more of an emphasis on excellence, more beautiful campus, more connections in the big wide world. </p>
<p>Scarlett, you have committed heinous blasphemy by declaring UA and AU indistinguishable! But you are right - if you want to be a slacker party student, you can do that…or you can be great student and get a great education…at either school. </p>
<p>jp, I know your family (you might want to change your user name, and delete your hometown). AU’s engineering does currently have a taller engineering rep…but UA has always had a superior chemical engineering department. My orthopaedic surgeon majored in chemical engineering at UA.</p>
<p>Well I currently have a 32 on my ACT, and I have a 4.2 GPA (unweighted: 4.0 GPA). (Superscored ACT: 33). And I actually visited the College of Engineering and Honors College at UA today. I was very impressed with everything today. The Co-op program at alabama is very strong, and companies like Chevron, ExxonMobil, Dow Chemical Company, U.S. Army Missile Command, National Security Agency, etc. interview on campus. Also, I absloutely love the campus of UA. Also, the honors college dorms are absolutely amazing, and I would love to live in those!! One bedroom to myself, and only having to share the bathroom with one person is not bad at all. (No community showers is great!) In addition, I met with the Dean of the Honors College, Dr. Sharpe, and I feel that there are many good opportunities there. I plan to apply for the computer-based honors program, international honors program, University Fellows Experience, and University Honors programs. I also met with the head of the Chem.E. department, Dr. Acoff. I enjoyed talking with her, and she was very informative. I also explored the new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex - Shelby Hall!! I felt as if it was a great state-of-the-art facility, and by the spring of my freshman year, the third phase of the engineering quad will be completed. Dr. Acoff told me that most of my Chem.E. classes would be in the Shelby complex, and only the computer based classes would be in ten Hoor Hall, which does not seem to be a problem with me. I also love tuscaloosa!! It’s just like my second home. But… I’m also visiting Auburn, Mississippi State, and Georgia Tech soon. So my final decision has not yet been made. (I’ve already visited these three each once before.)</p>
<p>MSU Fall Preview Day: September 27
Connect with Tech: September 12-13
War Eagle Day: October 11</p>
<p>Glad that you had such a great visit!</p>
<p>And with your ACT 32, you’d get a full tuition scholarship at Bama (but only 2/3 tuition at Auburn)</p>
<p>And, at Bama, you’d get an additional $2500 a year from engineering. A great deal.</p>