<p>Are there any schools out there people should avoid attending for undergraduate engineering major? This is really broad, so it can range from quality of professors to the supply of resources the department has.</p>
<p>One’s that are not ABET…</p>
<p>If you want something more specific, maybe you could list some options and then get peoples 2 cents.</p>
<p>had these colleges in mind…northwestern, berkeley, u of michigan, u of illinois, ucla, u of florida, u of wisconsin, penn state and iowa state. im more concerned about the last couple</p>
<p>For the school you will get your bachelor’s degree at, schools lacking [url=<a href=“http://www.abet.org%5DABET%5B/url”>http://www.abet.org]ABET[/url</a>] accreditation in the desired engineering major, except possibly for biomedical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or engineering science/physics at well recognized schools for those subjects.</p>
<p>Schools that are too expensive after applying financial aid and scholarships.</p>
<p>What is your intended engineering major, and what is your net cost to attend each one?</p>
<p>They are all generally fine, although some have much more name recognition and are likely to be more attractive to non-local company recruiters.</p>
<p>I’m mainly interested with material science and financial aid won’t be much of a deciding factor in my college selection process</p>
<p>Avoid Murray State like the plague (I know, basically no one looks there anyway for engineering, I just had to say it).</p>
<p>Things to consider when deciding:</p>
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<li><p>Contact career centers to find out who recruits materials engineering majors at each school for internships and jobs at graduation.</p></li>
<li><p>Look at web pages to find out what the curriculum and requirements for the major are for each school. Don’t forget breadth requirements.</p></li>
<li><p>Look at web pages to find out the breadth and depth of course offerings and faculty research interests at each school, so that you can get an idea of what subareas of the subject are most available in terms of courses and research opportunities.</p></li>
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<p>This sounds like there’s an interesting story to be told.</p>
<p>There’s nothing inherently wrong with any of the schools you listed above. They’re all good engineering schools. Some are better than others (umich is pretty tops, as is Berkeley). </p>
<p>Avoid programs that aren’t accredited by ABET, as others have mentioned. Avoid any for-profit schools, or any universities that advertise on TV outside of football games. Don’t even think about going to ITT Tech. Those are good rules in general though, not just for engineering.</p>
<p>I personally don’t care for Rose Hulman, but it’s a good enough school academics-wise.</p>
<p>im pretty sure seen iowa state ads before. I’m not too concerned with the well known one’s, just the couple that arn’t as great</p>
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<p>Oh, there is. There is. I don’t know if they still do it but they used to advertise their department as engineering (or at least some of my friends were convinced it was), but in reality it was an (I believe unaccredited) engineering technology program. On top of that, they didn’t allow any freshmen that weren’t in that program to take calculus or higher no matter what. I had a friend go there for something else who had taken calculus in high school and they made him start in algebra. Add to that the fact that the school is a dump, and you have my main reasons for saying stay away like it is the plague.</p>
<p>Well, here is Murray State’s ABET accreditation list:</p>
<p>[Accredited</a> Programs details](<a href=“http://main.abet.org/aps/AccreditedProgramsDetails.aspx?OrganizationID=262]Accredited”>http://main.abet.org/aps/AccreditedProgramsDetails.aspx?OrganizationID=262)</p>
<p>Not that it matters for the OP.</p>
<p>Alright so apparently it was accredited. There is one mark off of the long list of things I have against them. ;-)</p>