BU vs. NEU vs. Tufts Engineering

boston_man_2009
Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:01:49 +0000

“Prestige is based on the overall school, not a specific program. Tuft is a way more prestigious school than any of the other two. Prestige is king. There is a reason why the elite jobs, be it ibank, strat consulting, or the engineering equivalent, i.e Google and the likes are comprised of 95% prestigious school grads. Give me Harvard Engineering and Michigan Engineering and I would go to Harvard Engineering any day just to get the Harvard pedigree. It open doors. I am not saying in anyway that Tufts is Harvard. It’s just an analogy.
I personally made a mistake attending Michigan over Penn because I was one of those clueless high school kid who bought into the “engineering rankings” hype instead of following the prestige. I now realize how stupid I was.”

I am 100% with Pierre, that’s a dumb argument. So I’m just leaving it with that.

“The only difference between NEU and any other universities is that they make it mandatory and force you to do it. This on the other hand hurts people who want to get into research or academia because it makes no sense for them.”

The REAL big difference is that NEU is known to have a STRONG CO-OP program. This means that they put kids with barely a college education into some top notch companies such as GE or whatever. And I don’t understand how a Co-Op experience can hurt someone who wants to do research. They can do research at another company and that looks pretty darn good to grad schools.

"Funny. I was just networking with a Michigan alum. He made top bucket (top 10%) at Goldman Sachs TMT last year. The headhunter told him that KKR and blackstone both wont interview him because they specifically told the headhunter to compile a list of GS or MS TMT, and ivy league or MIT/Stanford pedigree. The middle buckets and low buckets got interviews at the elite PEs whlie he didnt because of the undergrad backgrounds.

Also, where you went to school has a huge effect on the quality of your first job, which leads to the quality of your second job and so on. So you are more likely to be in a prestigious job in any given field from a more prestigious school than a less prestigious school. Sure there are exceptions, but it’s all about probabilities. Why should you hinder your chance when you have the opportunity to go to school that maximizes your chance?"

Okay, let me rephrase want I meant to say. Work Experience is weighed more than what school you went to in the ENGINEERING workforce. IB is known to only what people from IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS OR MIT/STANFORD PEDIGREE. Engineering is a lot different in the fact that every school teaches the same thing (however the top notch schools teach at a higher pace and it’s more rigorous). Therefore, companies will almost hire you form anywhere as long as your grades are good.