<p>It’s getting better but overall, the placement in engineering firms is quite terrible. Employers don’t come on campus because of lack of interest from the student body as well as the center for career education, which doesn’t do all that much to contact engineering firms.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t come to Columbia if my long-term goal was to enter the engineering field. I don’t know one person who is actually interning at an engineering firm this summer, and I know around 30-40 engineers out of a class of 300.</p>
<p>However, as you already know, Wall Street placement is quite good, even in these down times.</p>