<p>why do people keep on bashing about it?</p>
<p>what's wrong with going to an ivy to study engineering?</p>
<p>people always say "don't trust the rankings" and they still think that people who go to ivy engineering are oxymorons just because "ivy RANKS LOW in engineering"?</p>
<p>what happens if one just falls in love with the school and wants to study engineering, should he go to schools like UIUC, UMich, GTech for the sake of "HIGHER RANK"?</p>
<p>how bad are ivy engineering graduates? gardeners? janitors?</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>Universities of the Ivy League aren’t weak in Engineering. In fact, most of them are strong to good in Engineering, and two of them (Cornell and Princeton) are actually excellent options for Engineers. I guess relative to their overall academic excellence, most Ivies are not as strong in Engineering as they are in other regards. But in an absolute sense, even the weakest Engineering departments in the Ivy League are ranked among the top 50, which is still very respectable. </p>
<p>This said, there are plenty of other universities that are as strong as the Ivy League overall but are also excellent in Engineering. Schools like Cal, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Michigan, Northwestern, Rice, Stanford and UCLA. </p>
<p>There are many other universities that may not be as strong as the Ivies overall, but that are still very highly regarded and have excellent Engineering programs. Schools like Georgia Tech, Texas-Austin, UCSD, UIUC and Wisconsin to name a few.</p>
<p>Most engineering majors at the Ivies don’t go into engineering as a career. Many go into finance, medicine, or other fields. For these people, studying engineering at an Ivy was a very prudent decision. </p>
<p>Even at MIT (not an Ivy), for example, some of the biggest employers in 2008 were McKinsey, Booz Allen, Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Bain, and UBS.</p>
<p>That said, Ivies are a good choice even if you do want to go into engineering. Penn, for example, has great placement in both industry and graduate school.</p>
<p>[Penn</a> Engineering – Career Surveys](<a href=“http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/seas/surveys.html]Penn”>http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/seas/surveys.html)</p>