<p>Which engineering schools represent a good value? For example, take a student worthy of the top schools, but will not qualify for aid and cannot or won’t spend $55K. This student can look at lower ranked schools for merit aid and lower total cost. In thinking that often you get what you pay for, my question is which such schools are actually a good value? Which of these lower ranked schools actually produce good engineers who get recruited and hired as easily as those from top schools? I would love opinions from those who really know–grads of such schools, employers of those grads, etc.</p>
<p>I know dozens of people with engineering degrees from Iowa and Iowa State, both at less than $35000 per year in COA. Look at their career services data and you will see that they get great jobs.</p>
<p>To equate price of a school with quality is not a good idea.</p>
<p>GA Tech is around $35k for OOS students. In many areas of engineering they rank extremely high.</p>
<p>Most flagship Us have a good engineering program. Your in-state school is probably the best value.</p>
<p>^ obviously most instate publics are great value. That’s easy. Surprisingly, my instate options (NY) are not renowned for engineering. I really want to know about OOS and privates with low net cost for top students that are actually worth the low cost.</p>
<p>That’s an easy one</p>
<p>Cooper Union in New York City</p>
<p>free tuition</p>
<p>U Minnesota</p>
<p>Depending on your goals and your scores, both Auburn and Alabama offer OOS students scholarships that can either give you the equivalent of instate tuition (Auburn) or free tuition (Alabama). In addition the e’school offers money to top admits. Is it GA Tech or MIT? No, but if you are looking for solid e’schools that are investing, not cutting back (as many state schools are facing), both are worth a look.</p>
<p>Auburn OOS Academic Scholarships:
[Office</a> of University Scholarships - Auburn University](<a href=“http://www.auburn.edu/scholarship/academic-scholarships.html]Office”>http://www.auburn.edu/scholarship/academic-scholarships.html)</p>
<p>Auburn OOS Freshman Scholarships (look for Engineering scholarship 3rd on the list):
[Office</a> of University Scholarships - Auburn University](<a href=“http://www.auburn.edu/scholarship/nonresident-freshman-scholarships.html]Office”>http://www.auburn.edu/scholarship/nonresident-freshman-scholarships.html)</p>
<p>Alabama OOS Scholarships:
[Out-of-State</a> Scholarships - Undergraduate Scholarships - The University of Alabama](<a href=“http://scholarships.ua.edu/types/out_of_state.html]Out-of-State”>http://scholarships.ua.edu/types/out_of_state.html)</p>
<p>Alabama Engineering Scholarships:
[Scholarships</a> - Undergraduate Students - The College of Engineering - The University of Alabama](<a href=“http://eng.ua.edu/undergraduate/scholarships/]Scholarships”>Scholarships – College of Engineering | The University of Alabama)</p>
<p>If you have the stats for a top school, Case Western gives out some very nice merit scholarships and has a very good engineering program.</p>
<p>Engineering programs are acredited by ABET, so they are a lot more similar across the country than perhaps any other field. Plus there isn’t just that much room for creativity and novelty in teaching calculus and thermodynamics the way there is in the liberal arts; its going to be the same just about everywhere. So any acredited program will qualify you for jobs in engineering. If your state college campus has any degree of selectivity then it is a good bet; I’d steer away from those that take just about anyone because they’ll have to try to soften the curricculum a bit or else they’d flunk out too many kids.</p>
<p>If you have an idea of what field of engineering you want, go to the websites of some major employers in that field and you can find out online where they recruit on-campus. That’s a good guide to what industry thinks.</p>
<p>Besides those listed above (e.g. Alabama, Cooper Union)…</p>
<p>Minnesota, Virginia Tech, Cal Poly SLO are lower cost public universities for OOS.</p>
<p>Some super-reaches like Stanford are rather generous with need-based aid for those from lower income to upper-middle income families.</p>
<p>Berkeley is not normally generous with aid to OOS students, and most of its merit scholarships are small, but mechanical engineering students can apply for the full ride Drake Scholarship.</p>
<p>Check out Clemson, too. It has some OOS merit scholarships available as well. Well-regarded engineering program. And I’ll second VT for being a terrific academic school that is a good bang for the buck for OOSers (with or without scholarship money).</p>
<p>Flagship state universities are a great bargain for engineering in most states. </p>
<p>I go to Clemson for example. A lot of companies in North Carolina/Virginia/South Carolina know they cannot recruit so far away at schools like MIT or Caltech so they choose to stay in state and recruit at schools like Clemson! (which is the best school in the state for engineering)</p>
<p>If you have any questions about Clemson let me know!</p>
<p>Take a look at these links from a Wall Street Journal study last year:
[Recruiters</a> Favor State Colleges & Universities for Job Hiring - WSJ.com](<a href=“Recruiters Favor State Colleges & Universities for Job Hiring - WSJ”>Recruiters Favor State Colleges & Universities for Job Hiring - WSJ)</p>
<p><a href=“School Rankings by College Major – Job Recruiter Top Picks - WSJ”>School Rankings by College Major – Job Recruiter Top Picks - WSJ;
<p>[Best</a> Colleges & Universities - Ranked by Job Recruiters - WSJ.com](<a href=“Best Colleges & Universities - Ranked by Job Recruiters - WSJ”>Best Colleges & Universities - Ranked by Job Recruiters - WSJ)</p>
<p>[Job</a> Recruiters Prefer State Universities Over Ivy League Colleges - WSJ.com](<a href=“Job Recruiters Prefer State Universities Over Ivy League Colleges - WSJ”>Job Recruiters Prefer State Universities Over Ivy League Colleges - WSJ)</p>