10 Most Underrrated Engineering Colleges....

al6200
Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:20:27 +0000

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.



Really? I know they’re flatter than law salary curve (which is a very steep binomial distribution), but I’d still bet that there’s some variation between schools.



Median SAT’s don’t say anything about a student after they’ve been admitted, and thus says nothing about the program.



Fair enough, but they do tell you how strong the student body is, and that’s part of the overall quality of school. Surely, most people would prefer to go to a school full of Einstein’s, even if the school only had average teaching quality.



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.



What might work would be a longitudinal study where SAT scores of incoming freshman are plotted against FE pass rates / total life earnings / grad school admissions / etc, and schools are ranked based on how much their average student exceeds the curve.