<p>here are my rules:
- if my potential employer has not heard of hmc, i do not want to work for them. anyone who has respectible credentials in the engineering field should know of hmc.</p>
<p>2)i always go for the experience that will be most challenging. mudd is most challenging. mudd’s core alone is unmatched in rigor. put tons of engineering requirements on top of that and you have yourself one hell of an engineer.</p>
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mudd produces a much higher % of grads that go on to get phds than berkeley. mudd alternates between #1 and #2 with caltech, at ~30%.</p>
<p>mudd grads make a bit more money than berkeley grads right out of school. the number is something like $55k to $54k. there is a thread about this in the past. i actually went through and tabulated these values.</p>
<p>mudd has a very high % of students that go on to be lead researchers, astronauts, ceos, entrepreneurs. for only having 4000 alums ever in existence, mudd has made quite an impact. berkeley graduates twice that many each year.</p>
<p>mudd only has an undergrad program with 100% of classes taught by faculty that has a phd. faculty only gets tenure based on teaching ability, as students review their courses and professors quarterly.</p>
<p>every mudd student is required to do research in one form or another. clinic, a graduation requirement (which can be substituted with thesis) pairs teams of students with companies that need a technical problem solved. it is fairly common for mudders to have their names on a patent or two before graduation. in 2005, ~12 students received patents from work on their clinic projects.</p>
<p>mudd competes and gets top-marks in the putnum mathematics competition every year. this year mudd had the third highest number of students in the ‘top 100’, without accounting for student body size. the overall % of mudders in top 100 is the high % of the student body in the country.</p>
<p>for the last 10 years, mudd has had at least one team be in the top 10 in the acm/mcm mathematics modeling competition. (top 10 are not ranked) in 1997 (i believe) mudd had 3 teams in the top 10 where harvard, mit and all them only had one. accounting for such a small student body and limited number of mudd teams competing, this is quite a feat.</p>
<p>in 2006, a mudd student received the apker’s prize for undergraduate research. only two are given annually. the student had trouble making the acceptance because she was in england on the churchill fellowship. mudd has had 2 apker’s prize winners in the last 10 years.</p>
<p>in 2006, mudd received the mathematics excellence award… being the first institution to receive the newly-developed award.</p>
<p>most mudd students are published before they graduate.</p>