<p>I'm a student considering majoring in chemical engineering at Yale. However, I'm unsure about the job outlook for Yale engineering graduates. I'd like the option of finding an engineering job with a BS degree.</p>
<p>I'm not interested in business, finance, or graduate school; which I know many Yale engineers go on to.</p>
<p>For people with experience in the engineering industry, is a Yale chemical engineering BS degree a solid choice?</p>
<p>If you’re degree says Yale on it, can’t you pretty much do whatever you want (within reason) post-grad?</p>
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<p>Not necessarily.</p>
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<p>I don’t have any experience with Yale engineering specifically, but I know that Yale doesn’t have a dedicated engineering career fair. They aren’t known for engineering, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a job if you go there.</p>
<p>Looking at their career center website, their main career fair doesn’t really have much in the way of engineering companies (<a href=“http://ucs.yalecollege.yale.edu/sites/default/files/yale_career_fair_list.pdf[/url]”>http://ucs.yalecollege.yale.edu/sites/default/files/yale_career_fair_list.pdf</a>). For engineering they seem to send their students off to the Engineering Consortium Career Fair hosted by Columbia in NYC ([Engineering</a> Consortium Career Fair 2010 | Center for Career Education Programs](<a href=“Events | Columbia CCE”>Events | Columbia CCE)).</p>
<p>What this says to me is that there aren’t any major engineering companies that recruit directly form Yale. That is probably because statistically, the graduates of Yale aren’t looking for just a typical engineering job.</p>
<p>However, if you to go to that fair at Columbia I am sure they aren’t going to look at you and say “Yale? What a loser.” You ought to have as good a shot as anyone else at that career fair.</p>
<p>I do have one question for you though. Why Yale? There are other Ivies with better engineering programs and recruiting bases for the same price and other schools (both public and private) that are much cheaper with better engineering programs and recruiting bases. So just out of curiosity, what is drawing you to Yale?</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses. I was admitted to Rice and Yale. I received close to a full ride from both, because of my family’s low income.</p>
<p>I originally applied to Yale for their English department. I wrote a lot in high school, and I had planned on majoring in English.</p>
<p>However, I’m decent at math (calc BC as a junior) and decided that engineering would be a more stable career path. I want to write on the side, and possibly take creative writing courses at Yale.</p>
<p>I’m also not too set on engineering.</p>
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<p>Calculus BC as a junior is more than just decent in math.</p>
<p>If engineering does not work out, you may want to consider majoring in applied math for career utility (e.g. actuarial, quantitative finance, computers, etc.), which would also leave room for courses, a minor, or a second major in English.</p>
<p>How is the applied math major at Yale?</p>
<p>Yale claims to be putting major resources into their engineering school. Might this change their career placement in the future? Could be a question to ask the school or this board.</p>
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<p>If they devote some of those resources to effectively “recruiting” engineering companies to come to their career fair and start their own engineering career fair instead of leeching off of Columbia’s, then yes I would imagine it would change things. Until then, I would imagine it is mainly a feeder program for graduate schools and the financial sector and other non-traditional engineering professions. Note: this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as a fair number of people are into that.</p>
<p>The program is not “top-ranked”, but still respected. Go to whatever school you want because if you like where you are, you will excel. First I recommend actually getting into Yale!</p>
<p>^I was accepted to Yale and Rice.</p>
<p>I’m leaning towards Yale now, though still slightly worried about placement into an engineering job after graduation.</p>
<p>I have no interest in finance or business, and would not enjoy working in those fields after obtaining an engineering degree.</p>
<p>In your last thread, I believe you mentioned that Yale would be cheaper. Is that still the case?</p>
<p>I’m trying to see a reason to go to Yale. If you aren’t interested in the non-engineering doors a Yale degree can open, I can’t really find one.</p>
<p>Yale and Rice offered me similar FA.</p>
<p>I’m not too set on engineering. I’m also interested in creative writing, and Yale has a good English department. That would be my primary reason for choosing Yale over Rice.</p>
<p>It’s not like Rice is a bad school either. It is still one of the elite schools in the country overall, it just doesn’t have quite the clout that Yale does.</p>
<p>Yale has a large amount of strong departments and some of the best networking in the country, not to mention the brand name is top-notch. It is only slightly better than Rice but still better in my opinion.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses.</p>
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I’m not an expert on creative writing, but I don’t necessarily think that the difference between these two would be large in terms of academics in that field. However, you might find the networking opportunities at Yale valuable if you major in English simply because the supply of directly-related opportunities is small. Though, if you aren’t interested in business or finance this might be a non-issue.</p>
<p>the reason recruiters do not come to yale is simply a matter of numbers. yale engineering is very very very very small. therefore the pool of potential recruits is very very very very small. It does not imply anything other than that.</p>