<p>You cannot judge a school by its classes. You need to look at whats taught in those classes. Engineering is not as much what you learn, but do you learn how to learn. Do you learn how to react when new things are being flung at you? Engineering school give you a foundation for how to learn. Harvey Mudd, Olin, Rice. Are all amazing engineering schools. They teach you what the real world will be like. Its not somewhere will someone will hand you everything you need to know on a platter. No, they will say here’s what you need to do, figure out how. These schools are teaching you to work hard and how to think. Harvard engineering is not given much credibility in the real world since it doesnt do this as well. Mudd may only have a general engineering degree, but it teaches how to think. I know amazing engineers who have come out of mudd, and amazing profs who have taught at Mudd. Olin also has an amazing program. Olin was founded as a reaction to the desire for change in engineering education. and Its changing it. When students are told as freshmen they are doing at least sophmore level work, they classes taught as they are in grad school, things are changing.
All the Ivies have is name, nothing else. There are many other engineering schools with little name, that are a lot better. Go find a person in industry who hires, ask them what they think of colleges. Most of the time, I don’t think they would really care as long as you knew what you were doing. Different schools could teach you that to different levels.</p>