10 Most Underrrated Engineering Colleges....

al6200
Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:00:56 +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.

With that in mind, here are some underrated schools:


Caltech (laypeople, at least on the east coast, have no clue about Caltech).
Olin (no one has heard of it)
Carnegie Mellon
Georgia Tech
USC


@Pierre, WPI is probably a peer of Boston College or any top state school (except Berkeley). If people are indeed comparing WPI to MIT or Caltech or any top national school, then I would agree that they are overrating WPI. However, virtually no laypeople have heard of WPI, so I don’t think that WPI is overrated in general.

Yet I don’t see how one can argue that WPI is not underrated by USNews. WPI is in the top 50 national universities by mean SAT scores and per capita endowment (and in the top 10 by average graduate income). Yet we’re ranked 71st. If that’s not “underrated”, I don’t know what is.