How do employers rank engineering universities?

IsaacTheFuture
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:58:32 +0000

Engineers are in short supply? Really? It doesn’t at all seem like it, lol. Seems like everyone wants to be an engineer, lol.

@emptyMT Oh okay, I see what you’re saying. However, it’s important that when looking at the schools with the most alumni in a certain industry, we take into account the school’s size. My HS has twice as many students than Cal Tech has undergrads, which only has around 1000 iirc. Other larger private schools are still small in comparison to many state schools. For example, Duke has about 1200 engineering students, composed to 6300 undergrad engineers at Michigan (no doubt Michigan has an overall better engineering program, buy I’m just using this as an example. Roll with it, lol). In just pure amount of employees and recruited students in engineering fields, OF COURSE Michigan will have more and thus will be better represented. However, if you account for the size of the schools, then you’ll see that it tells a much different story.

Now of course the individual is FAR more important than the college they attended (I can attest to this, lol), but due to pure resources, ON AVERAGE a student from a flagship engineering school (GT, MIT, UMich, Stanford) typically will be more prepared than that from your average state school. Also, schools with more resources can also give their students more exposure. I mean just check the employment rates at these different schools, it tells the whole story. Another important factor is location. Being near big corporations or startup heavy areas make it easier to find a job.