<p>Sorry to bump my slightly old thread but I had another question. Does Caltech’s extremely rigorous curriculum which tends to drive down grades perhaps hurt it in the field of grad school admissions/employment in industry, or is it that very same rigorous education that really makes degrees from the school attractive, pending at least a decent GPA? </p>
<p>Another person has told me that grad school (Master’s or PhD) is completely necessary to become a professional aeronautical engineer. Is this the true general consensus? With this in mind, should I perhaps go to Columbia/Duke and then somewhere on that “stratospheric” level of engineering such as Caltech/MIT/Stanford, etc.? I suppose this really only matters if attending grad school results in a large enough salary difference to justify spending more time in school. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>