mechanical/aerospace colleges

cooptroop123 · 10-15-2009, 10:20 PM

i want a very good aerospace or mechanical engineering college (aerospace perferred but mechanical would be fine) that also has good parties. some schools i was thinking of are UC santa barbra, U of florida, U of arizona, UC boulder, UBC, McGill, and U of central FL

bubblesocks · 10-16-2009, 01:49 PM

You might want to check out Purdue. The town isn't much to speak of beyond the campus, but it's one of the top schools in the country for aerospace and has a huge Greek (and thus party) scene. You'll probably have to join a frat or bring along lots of hot girls to get into any of the parties, but that's true of any place.

nshah9617 · 10-16-2009, 03:46 PM

Look at state schools:

Texas, TAMU, UCs Florida, Michigan, Purdue, UIUC and so forth.

hypher · 10-16-2009, 08:47 PM

You may want to think about Mizzou(University of Missouri-Columbia).

I'm considering going there, since they offer a BS in Mech eng. and you can get a Aerospace emphasis on your transcript by taking 3 Aerospace focused courses.

Also I hear they have a pretty big greek life as well.

tonytet · 10-16-2009, 08:55 PM

You are definitely going to need to look at big schools for this. I know Purdue has a great program, and so does UT-Austin

boneh3ad · 10-16-2009, 08:56 PM

Except I wouldn't consider Mizzou a "very good" engineering school like the OP specified, especially when comparing to those suggested by nshah and most of the ones suggested by the OP. Add to that the fact that they don't even have an actual aerospace program, and it is a stretch to say that it fits waht the OP is looking for.

If he really wanted engineering and greek life, then UIUC would be ideal since it has top flight engineering as well as the largest greek system in the country. However, he didn't actually mention wanting to join a fraternity, he just said he wanted to have good parties, so he isn't necessarily looking to go greek.

Then again, we don't know if he has any kind of financial limitations. I am assuming he is geographically open since he has schools on both coasts and in Canada.

hypher · 10-16-2009, 09:06 PM

I know that, I just thought he may want to consider Mizzou's program, since he said aerospace or mechanical engineering, and there you could kinda get both.

But out of those school's OP listed, I'd say Colorado-Boulder would be the best choice.

boneh3ad · 10-16-2009, 09:12 PM

Out of those listed, I would DEFINTELY pick Colorado as the top choice. Colorado is a top-15 program, and is a really beautiful area. As long as you can put up with an unbelievable number of pot heads, then it is a great place.