Engineering: Carnegie Mellon or Georgia Tech?

RacinReaver
Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:17:55 +0000

CMU only offers honors on degrees if you do a honors thesis you senior year. In the college of engineering you need to get a 3.75 GPA in order to get on Dean’s List for the semester. Though that seems high, the average GPA within the college of engineering is around a 3.1. It’s a 3.75 because there’s more students in CIT than any of the other colleges at CMU and they don’t want the majority of dean’s list to be engineering students.

Also, not sure if I said it earlier, but the only degrees CMU offers in engineering are Chemical, Civil, ECE, Materials, and Mechanical. There are specializations available within many of those degrees (I think IE is within MechE, for example), as well as the option of double majoring in Biomedical Engineering or Engineering & Public Policy.

One of my labmates here went to GT for his undergrad and said he had a pretty good time there. I also really enjoyed my time at CMU (both of us were materials majors). Either school you pick will give you a great education. I think your decision should really come down to fit and money.