<p>@devileng Let me try to answer your questions. if you have more, I can try to get you intouch with the right individuals on the IIT campus.</p>
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<li><p>Yes, on a case-by-case basis these decisions are made. I do not know the amount but once you are accepted, you are usually informed of the merit scholarship in the admission letter.</p></li>
<li><p>It depends on what you mean by “modern”. Many of the buildings were built by [Ludwig</a> Mies van der Rohe](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe"]Ludwig”>Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - Wikipedia) or his disciples in the 1950’s and 1960’s but there are some much more recent buildings built by prominent architects as well. There is a [virtual</a> tour](<a href=“Undergraduate Visits and Tours | Illinois Institute of Technology”>Undergraduate Visits and Tours | Illinois Institute of Technology) of the campus which shows you the way it looks. I think the campus is actually quite nice looking and many of the buildings are being updated and renovated without losing the original look of the campus which is modernistic.</p></li>
<li><p>Our Mechanical Engineering department is one of the more popular ones on campus and it is probably one of the higher ranked ones. Rankings are funny things. IIT has high quality but small research-oriented departments. The size is really a disadvantage in these rankings. The faculty are quite good. The students gete a rigorous education and they find good jobs after graduation.</p></li>
<li><p>Internships for international students are available using the [Curricular</a> Practical Training](<a href=“Optional Practical Training - Wikipedia”>Optional Practical Training - Wikipedia) mechanism. I think this might not cover co-ops though.</p></li>
<li><p>You will have to ask the Admission office or the MMAE Department about this directly, I am a physics professor…</p></li>
<li><p>Well you can apply for Optional Practical Training and get a job for up to 18 months. After that, the rest is up to you and your employer wanting to sponsor you. A significant number of our international students get one of these positions but I do not know the statistics offhand. The Career Management Center would know and you could ask the Admissions office for details. Send them an email.</p></li>
<li><p>Yes, see (1) above.</p></li>
<li><p>It is quite good in the Chicago area (a lot of our alumni do the hiring) and I believe that it is good across the country. IIT is one of the [url=“<a href=“http://theaitu.org%22%5DAITU%5B/url”>http://theaitu.org”]AITU[/url</a>] schools and they all are well regarded for their engineering education (you can’t ague with MIT, Cal Tech, Case, CMU, RPI, and Drexel which are also members).</p></li>
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