Engineering Colleges Like Duke

usernamelm
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:08:32 +0000

Starting to look into all the schools and this is what I’m running into–the big state schools don’t fulfill the desire for kids from all over, or 4 year residential. UMich is indeed 70% from Michigan, and 27K undergraduates. The smaller engineering schools can end up specialized technical schools (ie. no English majors). It’s an interesting search! That’s why I ended up with the Ivies on the list–not for prestige, but trying to fill the wish list!

Oh and I forgot to add Lehigh to the list, will do.

And where are the people who say–engineering is engineering, as long as they are accredited you will get the same job at the same pay etc etc. I know that argument is usually used to discourage a kid from borrowing $200K to go to CMU vs free to his state school, but wouldn’t it apply here too?