<p>As title says. From what I've read, WUSTL doesn't have a good engineering department, and Olin is a semi-target to non-target school. If I'm slightly interested in Premed and not all at in Political Sciences, what other options are available and worthwhile? I do like the fact that it's easy to double major at WUSTL, but in what?</p>
<p>WUSTL doesn’t have a good engineering department? WashU has a great Biomedical engineering and chemical engineering program. Biomedical engineering is especially popular at WashU. Olin may not be the best business school to get an MBA from but is exceptional for undergrad business and is steadily rising up the rankings and employers have started to recruit heavily at WashU. Buisnessweek ranked olin 4th in the nation for it’s BSBA program this year and Olin is very well funded, making it the wealthiest school within WashU. The college of arts and sciences at WashU has many great programs, the chemistry department is strong, biochem is popular, psychology, philosophy and neuroscience are strong at WashU. WashU also offers great language programs. I can go on and on honestly. If you haven’t visited, you should definitely consider visiting.</p>
<p>U.S.News & World Report Rankings of Undergraduate Programs, 2012-13</p>
<p>Washington University’s ranking among national universities for overall undergraduate programs: 14th
Alumni giving: 22nd
Faculty resources: 10th
Financial resources: 3rd
Graduation and retention: 11th (tie)
Need-based financial aid awards: 29th
Selectivity: 7th (tie)
Best value: 30th
Business: 14th (tie)
Engineering: 39th (tie)</p>
<p>[Washington</a> University Community Impact Study](<a href=“Economic Impact on the St. Louis Region | Government & Community Relations | Washington University in St. Louis”>Economic Impact on the St. Louis Region | Government & Community Relations | Washington University in St. Louis)</p>
<p>Engineering is #39, which, while not bad, does not speak too much volume about the program.</p>
<p>For the grad programs (which may or may not be reflective of the undergrad programs), except for biomedical, the engineering list doesn’t look that impressive to me. </p>
<p>Do you have sources to show that employers have started to recruit heavily from Olin (undergrad)?</p>
<p>Like many college-bound high school students, you’re very worried about rankings. Rankings really don’t matter that much. Wash U is a great school with great students and professors where you will be academically challenged, and that’s a fact.</p>
<p>Again, I’m not worried about rankings or public name recognition at all. Otherwise I would never have taken an interest in WUSTL because it has little name recognition compared to its peers like JH, Georgetown, Cornell. etc (which, to me, is part of its appeal–it’s like this excellent underdog among the elites)). I have no doubt that the academics here is top-notch; however, I’m more concerned about the practical i.e. job prospects and recruitability, considering that St. Louis isn’t exactly a hot location (so firms are less likely to come here and recruit?), and that WUSTL’s engineering department is not well-known (compared to, say, UMich, Northwestern, Berkeley)–which may be looked upon negatively by employers.</p>
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<p>For what it’s worth, I can only think of a single one of my friends from 2012 & 13 classes of engineering that do not have a fantastic engineering job (/fantastic phd program or other professional degree program). And that friend has a job… just not an engineering one. Branching out beyond my “friend” group to my “facebook friends” bigger list, I’m finding it difficult to name any recent alum who is unemployed.</p>
<p>Having a WUSTL engineering degree has never been seen as a negative for me, personally.</p>
<p>Exactly. WUSTL students/graduates get great employer interest and always have amazing job opportunities available to them.</p>
<p>^^Did you do a double major with engineering?</p>
<p>No, just a single major.</p>