<p>Help? I’m interested in Engineering, and GATech and Rice are probably the best in this category, but I’m also really interested in International Relations and Foreign Languages.</p>
<p>Help?</p>
<p>Tech’s International Affairs program is quite spectacular, with much research and great study abroad options. The modern language school is growing rapidly as well, with particular growth in Korean and Arabic recently. Recent graduates have won Fulbright grants and a Rhodes Scholarship, joined the state department, studied at the London School of Economics, gone to law school at Vandy and UGA, etc. </p>
<p>GT is much less expensive than your private school options.</p>
<p>These schools will all put you in a different place, so the important thing is to figure out what you want to do at graduation. </p>
<p>If you’re interested in being an engineer, Georgia Tech is the far-and-away best option. If your goal is to work in business, government, the UN, etc, then Penn is the best option, but WUSTL, Emory, and Rice are good options for that as well.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech and Emory both have the advantage of cross enrollment - you can take classes at one school while attending the other. You can’t get a cross degree, though.</p>
<p>If you’re hardcore into engineering, don’t come to Penn - go to GA Tech for that. If you want to do international relations and foreign languages, come to Penn - those departments are phenomenal</p>
<p>The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts is now the third largest of Tech’s six colleges with over 1100 undergraduates in nine majors. </p>
<p>Most of the majors are unranked by US News because they’re unusual: there aren’t rankings for “history, technology, and society” or “science, technology, and culture,” yet these programs are at the center of their (sub)fields with professors who are active researchers and (usually) good teachers. The public policy school is in the top three in the world in the field of “science and technology policy.” US News doesn’t care about focused programs like those. </p>
<p>The smaller liberal arts majors have student/faculty ratios that the Ivies would envy. And they draw extremely good students. So, don’t look at Tech as just an engineering school, or a place with small liberal arts programs that exist simply to teach writing to engineers. Look at the undergraduate majors.</p>