<p>When looking at choices for schools, Colorado State, UConn, UDel, Clarkson and Virginia Tech lead my list as an engineering major. Out of those schools, is there any real preference for coming out and getting employed.</p>
<p>I would say it depends on what area of the country you want to work and what field. My father is a civil/environmental engineer here in Colorado. Almost all the engineering professionals he knows in these two fields got at least one of their degrees at Colorado State. I’m going to CU-Boulder for Aero</p>
<p>I dont know first hand if any school brand name short of the top 10 (or whatever arbitrary number) will really help more than another. If you want to see some statistics for the schools, most have some sort of web page showing the employment data for recent grads. This may be a question that you have to directly ask an admissions counselor or graduating student when you’re on a college visit so you can find out each school’s method of selling their grads to employers, whether it is career fairs, internships, coops, etc.</p>
<p>VaTech stands out from that list.</p>
<p>Va Tech stands out…U-Delaware is a sleeper (I know I sound like some football analyst). I don’t work for and have nothing to gain from U-Delaware but I could toot their horn for a second. The Philly metro area hires a lot of U-Del grads. There is some “tech” going on in parts of Central and South Jersey and even some supporting federal contracts.</p>
<p>Personally, I like the locale of U-Del…30 min from Philly, 1 hour from Baltimore, 1.5 hours from Washington DC, 1.75 hours to NYC and 1.5 hours to Atlantic City…so you can get into some fun during your free time.</p>
<p>VT is strongest, but CSU is still good and I think Fort Collins is one of the best small cities in the nation. VT tracks into NoVa defense and government contracting jobs… I’m sure Global can tell you more about that than I can. CSU will lead to Colorado engineering positions, where it has a strong reputation. Personally, I’d rather live in Colorado and that would tip the scales for me.</p>
<p>Competition for VT would be U Maryland and UVA
Competition for CSU would be CU-Boulder and CSM</p>
<p>Oh…VaTech is all over the DC area.</p>
<p>Plus VaTech has some small campus in the DC area for a few of their graduate engineering programs and has agreements to take in folks working at the various federal agencies for their masters programs.</p>
<p>Well represented.</p>
<p>It depends on what type of engineering major you desire?</p>
<p>For instance Univ. of Delaware has bee a top 12 school in Chemical Engineering for decades and decades…</p>
<p>Colorado state all the way. No imagination is right to say the city of ft. Collins is a perfect college town. CSU has also put more money into engineering than any other program recently and have begun to pride themselves on it. My only complaint is lack of aero program so I may do grad work at CU.</p>
<p>I can’t speak for the other universities on the list, but I recently graduated from CSU and am working as an engineer in Hawaii. bellyflop55 is correct in that Ft. Collins is the perfect college town. I enjoyed my time and education at CSU, my only main gripe was the professors. Some of the engineering professors are outstanding, but many others are GOD AWFUL and should have been fired long ago. If you choose CSU, be sure to go to ramratings.com and look up the list of professors before you choose a course, it makes all the difference in the world. Note that all the calc classes are taught by TAs (except honors), I’m not sure if that is the norm elsewhere… Also try and get involved in reasearch out at the big engineering research center, many undergrads for some reason didn’t even know it existed since it is about a 10 minute drive from campus down a back road.</p>
<p>As far as job prospects go, this last year was pretty rough in terms of job placement due to the economy compared to years before. Not many I knew had jobs straight out of university, but almost all I know now have found engineering-related jobs. If you want to see who attends the engineering job fair then go here: [Upcoming</a> Career Fair - College of Engineering - Colorado State University](<a href=“http://www.engr.colostate.edu/career_fair.php]Upcoming”>http://www.engr.colostate.edu/career_fair.php)</p>
<p>~80% of those employers are there every year.</p>
<p>I should also mention that your job prospects aren’t limited to the companies that attend the job fair (obviously). Some of my friends work for Boeing, GM, and Audi…</p>
<p>If you have the money to go visit each campus, I would do so before you make a decision.</p>
<p>@zeroyon04 - what firm do you work for and what is your area of expertise? I live in Colorado now but graduated from UH Manoa in the 80’s and left Hawaii since I didn’t have any well placed uncles to help me get a job. My D1 just looked at CSU and CU and we’re taking a school scouting trip to the east coast (PA and NY) next week. But I’ve been impressed by what I’ve seen and heard at CSU.</p>