Engineering Colleges Like Duke

Chardo
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:34:05 +0000

I’ll second Lehigh integrated business and engineering, a very difficult honors program for their top students.

Take all recommendations of MIT with a grain of salt. It’s obviously the best engineering school, and outstanding for many other subjects, but nearly impossible to get in. Best not to fall in love.

Alabama has more than 50% of freshman class from out of state. OOS has been growing tremendously thanks to reasonable cost and huge OOS scholarships for top students. They just built an enormous science and engineering complex with state of the art facilities. While most schools are cutting, Bama is spending like crazy thanks to football dollars and federal grants. The senator from Alabama, a 3x Bama grad, is ranking republican on the appropriations committee, the folks who decide how to spend the earmarks.

DS, a high stats student, was admitted to several of the elite schools you listed, yet chose to attend Alabama. He totally loves it.