<p>D wants to study Biomedical Engineering. RIT and NC State offer some co-op experience. CT resident. Which is best?</p>
<p>For graduate:
NC State #55
UConn #55
RIT can’t find</p>
<p>Overall Uconn is a far better school academically. If you are CT resident, don’t pay out of state tuition to NC. Just join Uconn.</p>
<p>RIT is a very solid engineering school. Their Chem and Biomed departments just moved into a new state-of-the-art building. [RIT</a> - Department of Biomedical Engineering - Home](<a href=“http://www.rit.edu/kgcoe/biomedical/]RIT”>http://www.rit.edu/kgcoe/biomedical/)
I would choose RIT over UConn unless the cost is an issue. You would need to do the cost-versus-benefit analysis.</p>
<p>I don’t know about UConn and RIT. NC State has an excellent College of Engineering and, if you care about rankings, it’s undergraduate engineering is ranked above UConn and RIT. NCSU’s Biomedical Engineering program is a joint program with UNC-Chapel Hill. The College of Engineering is also part of NC State’s new state of the art Centennial Campus. Here’s a link if you want to learn more - [Centennial</a> Campus - An Extraordinary Research Park and Campus](<a href=“http://centennial.ncsu.edu/]Centennial”>http://centennial.ncsu.edu/) . I have a freshman at NCSU, feel free to pm me if you have more questions.</p>
<p>NC State is a much, much stronger school for engineering. XtremePower is not wrong if you’re planning on majoring in Poli Sci, though. </p>
<p>US News engineering rankings have NC State at #29, U Conn at #67, RIT at # 64. To put this in perspective, Duke is at # 28 and NC State ranks ahead of places like Yale and Vandy. </p>
<p>NC State’s program, as I’m sure you already know, is joint with UNC-Chapel Hill and the UNC Medical School, a medical school that is top ranked as a research institution. But this is a relatively recent merger, ~ 9 years in the making. The national biomed rankings understate the strength of the new joint program and the insane wealth of opportunities presented in Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Park. This is an area that oozes biomed like no other. Can’t think of a better place to study it. </p>
<p>Don’t know what your out of state costs will be, but the NC universities - esp CH and NCSU - are veritable bargains tuition-wise and Raleigh is a very inexpensive place to nest for 4 years. Can’t speak to RIT, know little of the school or program, but U Conn, its med school and the Hartford area just don’t compare to the NCSU package if you want to surround yourself with academic research and corporate R and D opportunities.</p>