Engineering: Purdue v Northeastern v Lehigh v Pitt

momofboiler1
Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:45:57 +0000

My daughter is a freshman at Purdue. She’s in honors college and LOVES everything about Purdue. They have great advising, weekly programs, honors mentors, honors study abroad program, smaller classes for some courses, research, etc… Great honors program. She’s going abroad this summer to Italy and has already locked down a co-op with a multibillion dollar corporation. The career fairs are huge and the school in general is very career focused. The career services center is dynamite. My daughter had a polished resume before classes even started thanks to their input. Classes are collaborative, there is wonderful makers space, and tons of academic support. Socially, school spirit is huge around sports, and there are tons of clubs, and music groups. Never a lack of stuff going on.

Purdue will accept most AP and DE courses but your faculty advisor will review what they think is good to take rather than skip. AP courses are automatically accepted if you score high enough but DE courses are reviewed. It took until the middle of the summer before my DD knew hers would be accepted.

Purdue’s calc I, II and III courses post all their midterms and finals on line so it’s easy to see if you think you know the material covered. If you are in the honors program, physics is integrated into the engineering design course so there is no getting around it. If you don’t use the credit to place out of a class, it still counts towards your standing which helps for scheduling and housing.

Let me know if you have any other specific questions.