<p>What in your opinion is the best engineering school? Now i don’t just mean prestige and rank. I am talking overall. THis would obvioulsy include prestige and rank, but also social life, financial aid, campus,“feel of the campus” etc. With All these factors combined, if you could chose what school would you goto for engineering?</p>
<p>MIT</p>
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<p>Was this supposed to be a hard question?</p>
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Well it’s obvious if you only take prestige and academics into consideration, but once you put in the other factors, I’m not so sure. </p>
<p>Personally, I have no idea. There’s a different “best engineering school” for everybody. Some like urban campuses, some like rural campuses. Some schools have $35k tuition, while some offer full tuition scholarships for all admitted students (3 that I can think of off the top of my head). It all depends on what factor you give the most weight to.</p>
<p>IMO, this is a very hard question which some people spend months trying to figure out.</p>
<p>I would say Cornell. MIT and Caltech are too narrowly tech-focused. I prefer a more balanced range of interests. The publics are too mass-produced. Not enough individual attention. Stanford is too focused on graduate-level education. That leaves about a half dozen elite engineering schools. Princeton and Cornell are Ivies with a great culture and ambience. I think Cornell has the edge in engineering, although Princeton has the edge overall.</p>
<p>^^^^
collegehelp- I don’t get it…first you say Cornell is too narrowly tech focused and then you say Cornell has great culture and ambience.</p>
<p>For me, Rice is the best OVERALL engineering school even if it isn’t just strictly engineering.</p>
<p>Lehcar-
There is a period after the word “Cornell”. “I would say Cornell” [is the best engineering school]. It was easy to misread. sorry.</p>
<p>THE Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</p>
<p>Everything considered very few students lucky enough to be admitted to MIT decide not to attend, especially if their interest lies in engineering. That pretty much tells the story. In addition to the academics and prestige, the prime location in Cambridge, unlimited research opportunities, campus facilities are simply unmatched. If there is a humanities class they can’t find at MIT they can always cross-register at Harvard. With all due respect, Cornell, while an excellent school is not exactly in the same league. If cross-admit choices is any indicator, there are probably no more than a handful that would pick it over MIT.</p>
<p>The SATs at MIT are 1380-1560.
At Cornell engineering they are 1360-1530.
Nearly the same.</p>
<p>Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, and MIT are the top.</p>
<p>You can slant it anyway you want for any of them to take the number 1 spot.</p>
<p>I personally would choose Stanford. The academics are solid in all fields (with top-notch engineering), and the atmosphere is very chill and laid-back.</p>