<p>How does Princeton engineering program compare to other Ivy schools (Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, Columbia). </p>
<p>Is Princeton engineering 4 or 5 years (like D)? Any benefit with 4 vs 5 other than 1 less year?</p>
<p>This doesn’t really answer your question, but 5 years seems to be the norm for Caltech. Also, the IEEE has been debating whether 5 years should be required for licensing.</p>
<p>Princeton engineering is a four year program. The ORFE major is especially well regarded.</p>
<p>For the ivy league, I would say Cornell is the best engineering. They have a strong program, big name in engineering, and a pretty vast department. Princeton is next best, then Columbia. The other schools (darthmouth, brown, yale) are smaller engineering majors within the college. With Cornell, Princeton, and Columbia, they are separate schools from the arts and sciences (usually a separate school means more faculty, more attention, more opportunity = better).</p>
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What about Harvard and Penn?</p>
<p>I’d say Princeton is better than Cornell for ORFE (I think it’s just OR at Cornell), and EE, but other than that I think Cornell generally comes out on top.</p>
<p>Princeton is excellent, though. Great facilities (the Friend center, the new engineering building, is beautiful and well-equipped), good profs, all that fun stuff.</p>
<p>Harvard has a brand-new Engineering department; Yale is putting a lot of money into the sciences and engineering. In general, though, none of the Ivies compare to MIT, CMU, CalTech, and some others, IMO, re:engineering. However, to be fair, if you’re really not sure about math/science/engineering as a focus, it would be better to be at a LA school, an Ivy especially, to be better able to explore LA fields.</p>
<p>Neuron, do you really think Cornell can not compare to CMU in terms of engineering? I am not disagreeing, but I have been debating between which I would go to if accepted to both. What are your reasons, or some pros/cons for both?</p>