<p>While Yale obviously has a great reputation for the liberal arts, does anyone know how good their engineering program is/ how it is perceived by employers? It seems well below the levels of other Ivies, but I'm pretty clueless. Thanks.</p>
<p>Suggest ask at their career center how many engineering firms recruit on-campus for engineers.</p>
<p>It wouldn't shock me if the number was zero. My guess is that all these majors go directly to grad school or Wall street type jobs.</p>
<p>Could be wrong though.</p>
<p>I think I will answer the OP's question this way. Many would say that the Yale engineering program is no good. I suppose that's just a matter of perspective. After all, there are hundreds of engineering programs out there, and I believe Yale's engineering programs is ranked somewhere in the 40's. Hence, if nothing else, it is still better than the vast majority of other engineering programs out there. So if Yale is no good, then what does that say for all the hundreds out there that are ranked even lower? </p>
<p>I agree with monydad that probably very few engineering employers would come to recruit at Yale, simply because many if not most Yale engineering students end up in consulting or banking or in grad school. But I wouldn't take that to mean that those engineering employers don't think Yale is any good. To give you a relative perspective, much of the Fortune 500 don't recruit at MIT or Stanford either. Let's face it. Much of the Fortune 500 consists of large stodgy industrial unsexy 'old-school' employers that most MIT/Stanford grads are not particularly interested in working for anyway. Let's face it. While I don't want to cast aspersions at the mining and metal industry, honestly, how many MIT/Stanford students are really champing at the bit to work at Phelps-Dodge, the large copper mining conglomerate which occupies #299 on the Fortune 500 list? How many of them have even heard of Phelps-Dodge? How about AK Steel Holding, the large iron/steel manufacturer and #410 on the Fortune 500? How many have even heard of AK Steel? I think it's safe to say that most superstar MIT/Stanford engineers would rather go work for some sexy high-tech startup or they'd rather work for Google than work for these kinds of companies, even though these companies make significantly more revenue and employ far more people than Google does. I'm sure that these companies would like to have some MIT engineers on the payroll. But they're not going to spend resources coming to campus to recruit because they know that those guys don't want to work for them. </p>
<p>Or to put it another way, Yale's engineering program is far higher ranked than, say, Montana Tech's. Yet Montana Tech engineers seem to be able to find engineering jobs without much difficulty, with excellent placement rates and good starting salaries, especially when you consider the fact that most of the jobs will be in low-cost Montana. If these Montana Tech engineers can find jobs, I can't imagine that the Yale engineers would have too many problems finding work. The real question is not whether they can find engineering jobs, it's whether they want them. </p>
<p>As far as Yale being far below the other Ivies. According to USNews undergrad engineering rankings, the best Ivy is Cornell at #7. Yale is 'tied' with Dartmouth for the worst Ivy at #44. Yet, again, I would argue that #44 is still pretty good. There are a LOT of engineering programs out there that only wish they were ranked #44.</p>