Engineering: Columbia vs. Oxford

collegemom3717
Mon, 26 May 2014 12:45:04 +0000

Have you read this:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-university/1487614-why-you-should-join-columbia-seas.html

Either name will open doors. Oxford probably has the best name recognition in the US of any non-US university, but name recognition counts for more with jobs than grad schools. IMO, neither school has a strong advantage over the other in terms of applying to an MBA program. However, having degrees from both sides of the Atlantic could make you stand out from the crowd, so (for example) Oxford undergrad and Harvard grad could be pretty interesting to employers.

So, I suggest looking again at the classes you will be taking, how you will be evaluated, and what the student life is like: that is, what will your undergraduate experience be like? You already know that both are great choices: which will fit you (not us) best? Oxford is four years all engineering, Columbia has a significant core requirement. Oxford is in a small city; Columbia is an enclave in a large one. And so on.