Does Your Undergraduate Engineering School Matter?

whydoicare
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:41:04 +0000

OK State, Kansas, and Arkansas are all large research institutions, so in engineering, the GPA equivalence is actually pretty close. Looking at this from the other side, Cornell is probably the only Ivy with an Ivy-level reputation in engineering. You wouldn’t get your money’s worth going to a different Ivy for engineering.

Of course it’s different if you plan for an early career path outside of engineering. For example, you want to enter straight into law school or medical school with an engineering degree, much easier from an Ivy.