Engineering: Georgia Tech vs Duke vs Cornell

ucbalumnus
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:21:35 +0000

bluedog:

Getting back to GT, Table 10 has the graduation rates by college and only 27% of students that begin in an engineering program graduate in 4 years. 79% graduate within 6 years. Sorry for getting off track…GT is a great engineering school, but I had no idea how few people actually get a degree within four years there. So, if you’re comparing costs, I would take into account the extra year of tuition and lost income in your calculations.



It would be really more useful if they quoted these numbers in number of semesters or quarters of school. Schools with a lot of engineering majors tend to have a lot of students doing co-ops which involve taking a semester off of school; this makes graduation rate measured in calendar years worse, but is not really worse as it would be for students taking extra school semesters due to repeating failed courses, needing to take lighter course loads, etc…