Carnegie Mellon VS Swarthmore VS Lafayette (Major: Mechanical Engineering)

CougarCatClan
Sat, 08 Apr 2017 17:54:44 +0000

@EyeVeee Thanks for helping me! CMU has an extensive amount of courses for Biomechanics/etc., & you’re right engineering is hard everywhere it’s just I’m going crazy over making a decision bc I ran across a lot of students complaining about CMU’s courseload versus the others but that doesn’t mean the other schools are easier.

I’ll ask the professors at Swat about my interests because I love how it’s a small-knit community and the resources at Swat are far more concentrated than at CMU. The placement rate for grad school for all 3 schools seem to be excellent imo, there isn’t a significant difference except Swat has a higher %. CMU has a Grad program and even offers an Integrated BS/MS which is a strength over the other two colleges in which both don’t offer any grad program.

You’re right the gen. degree isn’t a big issue since I’m leaning towards grad. school. I think I’ll come to a more definite decision after visiting CMU this week.