10 Most Underrrated Engineering Colleges....

ken285
Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:14:37 +0000

Probably the best way to determine what schools are overrated is to compare a school’s reputation (say ranking on USNews) against quantitative measures of quality like the income of graduates and the median SATs of incoming students.

Comparing it against quantitative measures is a good idea, but the examples you give don’t tell people about the quality of the program.

Engineering salaries tend to be pretty flat across the board, and differences are usually due to geographical differences more than anything else.

Median SAT’s don’t say anything about a student after they’ve been admitted, and thus says nothing about the program. What might work is the college equivalent of the SAT… perhaps the FE exam. Of course, the problem is it’s only a pass/fail test in many states and that it’s an optional test for most students.