Engineering - Rutgers vs UMass Amherst

FrannyT
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:49:03 +0000

My son’s girlfriend is a civil engineering student at UMass Amherst and I’ve known others who’ve gone through the school as well. It is a well-regarded, rigorous program and the engineering students are hard-working and serious. They have to be, or they don’t make it though! There are certainly many UMass students who are mainly interested in drinking and sports, but they are not engineering students. As a big state university Rutgers is going to have the same problem with sports obsessed and partying students as UMass and its engineering school is probably not as good. Therefore, you should save the $15K a year and go to UMass. Besides, Massachusetts is much nicer than New Jersey! And I say that as a graduate of a Rutgers graduate school.