Best Aeronautical Engineering Schools

Torveaux
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:00:47 +0000

Sounds like your parents are woefully uninformed about the student body at both schools. In college, it is really about the student body in your school within the university. If you are in the Engineering College, everyone is of high quality at both schools. S1 was not a huge fan of the TAMU campus, per se, but he applied there because it is awesome (UT as well). College Station is quite literally a college town versus the metro center of Austin. That is not good or bad, it is just a different vibe. Still, there are nearly 100K people in CS. It is also short drive to Houston if you really want a big city.

I get not wanting to go to a school with lots of classmates. I had similar thoughts at your age and went OOS. Two of my classmates went to the same large flagship. Oddly enough I had classes with each of them in my first year. (fortunately, I liked both so it was not a problem) As an adult, I don’t think I could recommend making that a real reason. Maybe if it was truly a tie-breaker.

Think about what type of aircraft you are interested in working on. Wichita is home to Cessna and Beachcraft, more focused on private craft than on commerical or military craft. Boeing is moving away, but does use sub-contractors there.

Delta being in Atlanta does not mean so much. Airlines buy aircraft, they don’t have large numbers of their own engineers. Delta is more likely recruiting people with statistics or management degrees.

California has the Skunkworks, but it is bleeding business due to a highly unattractive business climate that is not likley to change anytime soon.