<p>I am a a high school graduate from QATAR who have the opportunity to go to a prestigious EE program ( TAMU), or go to public school.Both colleges have same the accreditation, but I can have a full scholarship to the public school, meaning i will not pay anything !. At the other side TAMU is really know for it amazing EE program but that will be a lot of debts for me and my family (I am not rich), and I’ll end up spending about 4-6 years at least spending money to that college after graduation. I am a big dreamer guy and i have many projects in my mind;so, time is priceless for me and i don’t want to waste it in paying debts. It’s like Time Vs Education battle .So, what you recommend me guys? and thanks in advance ^^. </p>
<p>If Qatar University will get you the same job as the TAMU-Qatar campus, then save your money and attend QU. Even if you won’t get exactly the same job at the same pay immediately after graduation, over the long term QU is still likely to be the best choice because you won’t have to pay down any debt. Also, you need to evaluate what it would cost you to do a bachelor’s degree at TAMU-Qatar. For the same amount of money, you probably can complete a bachelor’s at QU and a masters somewhere else which is likely to be more valuable to you than just a bachelor’s from TAMU-Qatar…</p>
<p>If he’s an int’l, he wouldn’t likely get the same pay, etc, here either. He’d likely not get hired here. Most high tech jobs here require US citizenship to protect proprietary info. </p>
<p>No @mom2collegekids you completely misunderstood me… the Scholarship is to QU not TAMU and why don’t consider it prestigious although it’s one of the top in the country?. @happymom1 thanks for the advice, the tuiton is same as the on the US. 111896 USD for the 4 years ( 408424 Qatari Riyals and yes this is darn alot). but isn’t the education different I mean i don’t want to have less quality of learning . </p>
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you completely misunderstood me… the Scholarship is to QU not TAMU and why don’t consider it prestigious although it’s one of the top in the country?.</p>
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<p>I did not misunderstand you AT ALL. I know that the merit award is for QU. I know that TAMU would be full price. And, while TAMU certainly has very good engineering, to say it is prestigious is going too far. It’s not MIT, it’s not Cal Tech. It’s a state school that have very good engineering. </p>
<p>Few would be impressed with a TAMU degree in engineering. </p>
<p>There is no way to justify being full pay at TAMU when you can go for free at QU. No way to justify.</p>
<p>“Few would be impressed with a TAMU degree in engineering.” I agree that the Qatar program sounds like it makes the most sense for this student. However, I don’t think a program needs to be MIT or Caltech to be impressive. TAMU is well respected and has the Center for Dredging Studies, great petroleum engineering I believe ,etc. <a href=“http://engineering.tamu.edu/about/facts/”>http://engineering.tamu.edu/about/facts/</a></p>
<p>University of California is highly respected. However, University of California at Berkeley (#3 or #4 in the world on some lists) is a world apart in reputation from University of California in Merced. Few people that I know would attempt to argue that TAMU has anywhere near the prestige as University of California. Similarly Electrical Engineering is a world apart from Dredging Studies.</p>
<p>OP, I would think this US-centric forum would not be of much use to you. Perhaps in the International Student thread? We have no idea what the relative reputation is of University of Qatar vs. Texas A&M, Qatar.</p>
<p>I would query a couple of graduate schools in the US (if you think that may possibly be your path) and ask them about matriculation into their school from each of those two schools. That may be one way to gauge their relative reputation. Clearly, from a US perspective, save your cash and go for the full ride, but that is coming from an ignorant perspective.</p>
<p>Well, TAMU appears to be number 11 for grad engineering so is also worlds apart from other places by that thinking. Google Qatar dredging. They seem to have an interest in dredging. </p>
<p>If I were the OP, I would look into Computational Biology- that is really the wave of the future, and apply to Carnegie-Mellon.</p>
<p>Among his/her choices for EE, I would either look to going to Saudi Arabia or Egypt for school, or go to the very highly ranked Qatar University with a full ride:</p>
<p>so TAMU is not as good as it seems? and not worth the huge amount of money?.what i would really lose if i didn’t studied in TAMU?. btw when you get accepted their and get the financial aid you could choose between some of QF companies or partners and work for them maximum 6 years meaning 4 years of college, and 6 years of work for them and at the time i would be about 28 years old ! @ItsJustSchool @sevmom </p>
<p>Truly, none of us know enough about the job market in your country to be able to advise you. Talk with your parents’ friends and find out whether employers in your country care where you study. That is ultimately what matters.</p>
<p>That is true. We don’t know about the job market there, your finances, what your family thinks about the need to study in the United States, etc. Where is the idea of needing to go to TAMU in the United States coming from?</p>
<p>We do not know how to gauge its reputation. If you look on College Confidential for “Chance me” threads, there are many, many “chance me” threads. How many do you see that say “Chance me to TAMU Engineering”? Or threads that say, I was accepted to WUSL, Carnegie Mellon, and TAMU in EE- where should I go? And the Qatar campus will have its own teachers and reputation. Or click over on the left under “Colleges and Universities” then “Top CC Universities” and click on TAMU. Don’t see it there? Neither do I. Prestige is not always correlated with quality, and TAMU is a solid school. But you said “prestigious.” As in, “the name alone will open doors.” And that does not resonate strongly. UT Austin is more prestigious, in the state of Texas, as is Rice (even more so). And notice that it is the Austin campus in particular of UT that is prestigious.</p>
<p>So, should you accept an entry-level position where they treat you well and train you in how to effectively work in a company in return for a fully paid education? It is up to you. But consider, you will need to be working in any case, and the jobs are probably pretty plum jobs, so it is not like you are in chains until the age of 28 before you can start your life.</p>
<p>Is your freedom of choice of employers worth US$111,000? That is your new question. If not, U of Q seems to be a great opportunity!</p>
<p>@sevmom, TAMU is NOT in the USA. It is a branch campus in Qatar.</p>
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