| UCBChemEGrad,
Yes, I agree with you that you would get the same jobs with the same pay if you went to any of these schools as an engineer. I can say this about any engineering school. The starting salary is pretty much the same for any school. (Texas A&M grad probably gets the same salary as well at the same company)
But, at UIUC and Michigan, you also get some IB and Consulting recruiting. Of course these are not the only careers out there, there are also others. If you are 100% certain that you are going to be an engineer in the midwest, they are the same. But, people change their minds all the time in college, they might drop engineering all together. Now, your Econ degree from Purdue isn't worth as much as an Econ degree from UIUC or Michigan.
If I got in Harvard, I don't care about some stupid engineering ranking, I goto Harvard. |