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Alexandre · 04-08-2008, 09:53 PM

You want to Major in Mechanical Engineering, minor in Aerospace Engineering and Business? First of all, I am not sure that Michigan offers minors in Aerospace Engineering or Business. You can only major in those two fields. Double majoring in Aerospace and Mechanical is manageable, albeit tough, since they are both part of the same college and share quite a bit in common. Double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Business is possible, but challenging.

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Your friend who turned down Michigan for its size may have done so for the right reason...or the wrong reason. Michigan is indeed large, but, thanks to the size of its faculty, endowment, resources and campus, it is more than capable of handling its size. If your friend was looking for an intimate environment, where the college would halt all just to cater to his needs, then Michigan would not be the place. But in that respect, Michigan is no different from any major university with more than 5,000 undergrads and/or a large graduate school. Whether it is a student at Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Michigan, Penn or Stanford, the university will be too large and too busy taking care of their research and graduate students to attend to the needs of their undergrads. Undergrads at those universities must learn to take care of themselves. But if undergrads at those universities make an effort, they will be well looked after. So if your friend turned down Michigan for a LAC or a small university where research and graduate programs are insignificant, like Brown, Dartmouth, Rice etc..., because he wanted a smaller university and more personalized attention, then he made the right decision. However, if he turned down Michigan to attend a smaller school that is just as involved in research and has as large a ratio a graduate students as Michigan, he will sadly discover than he still wont find what he was looking for. Furthermore, it is important to rememeber that although Michigan is large, the college of Engineering is not that large. The CoE has 5,000 undergrads and 2,000 graduate students. that's roughly the same size as the CoE at other, smaller universites like Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech and MIT.

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Alexandre Super Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posts: 11,587	You want to Major in Mechanical Engineering, minor in Aerospace Engineering and Business? First of all, I am not sure that Michigan offers minors in Aerospace Engineering or Business. You can only major in those two fields. Double majoring in Aerospace and Mechanical is manageable, albeit tough, since they are both part of the same college and share quite a bit in common. Double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Business is possible, but challenging. Michigan Engineering \| Undergraduate Degree Options Your friend who turned down Michigan for its size may have done so for the right reason...or the wrong reason. Michigan is indeed large, but, thanks to the size of its faculty, endowment, resources and campus, it is more than capable of handling its size. If your friend was looking for an intimate environment, where the college would halt all just to cater to his needs, then Michigan would not be the place. But in that respect, Michigan is no different from any major university with more than 5,000 undergrads and/or a large graduate school. Whether it is a student at Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Michigan, Penn or Stanford, the university will be too large and too busy taking care of their research and graduate students to attend to the needs of their undergrads. Undergrads at those universities must learn to take care of themselves. But if undergrads at those universities make an effort, they will be well looked after. So if your friend turned down Michigan for a LAC or a small university where research and graduate programs are insignificant, like Brown, Dartmouth, Rice etc..., because he wanted a smaller university and more personalized attention, then he made the right decision. However, if he turned down Michigan to attend a smaller school that is just as involved in research and has as large a ratio a graduate students as Michigan, he will sadly discover than he still wont find what he was looking for. Furthermore, it is important to rememeber that although Michigan is large, the college of Engineering is not that large. The CoE has 5,000 undergrads and 2,000 graduate students. that's roughly the same size as the CoE at other, smaller universites like Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech and MIT.