Check placement rates before committing to OSU

buzzlightyear3
Mon, 29 Feb 2016 02:05:10 +0000

@Ivvcsf – Yep, I agree 100%.

I definitely pushed my son (again and again and again) to do all of those things while he was a student at OSU. He definitely went to career fairs; applied for internships; met with ECS starting in his sophomore year and had them review his resume; signed up for research projects (which didn’t materialize.) The frustrating thing is that he has no results to show for all of that, and when he reached out to professors and advisers to find leads or get more help he received no responses. Could he have tried harder and been more persistent? Absolutely. Could he have spent less time playing a club sport and instead spent his free time working on an engineering project/competition? Yep. I’m sure kids who are more persistent and/or who focused 100% on engineering-related activities have jobs now. The majority of the graduates do have jobs (or are in grad school.)

However, certainly there are other not-so-persistent students with non-engineering hobbies at other colleges too. What happens at those other colleges that results in very high placement rates? I have speculated at what might be some of the differences, but I really don’t know the root cause of the discrepancy.