<p>I have a hard time deciding where to enroll. I want to major in Industrial Engineering / Operations Research / Systems Engineering and I got accepted from UC Berkeley, Northwestern, Penn, Cornell and waitlisted at Columbia. I personally care about social life, research opportunity, and future chance to get into great grad schools.</p>
<p>Please give me comments and suggestions. =)</p>
<p>By grad schools do you mean PhD programs or business school?</p>
<p>Northwestern, Penn, and Cornell all have a pretty similar social life. Cornell’s obviously in a small town versus a big city, but the social life at all three tends to revolve around frat parties and house parties. Cornell offers the most diversity in terms of student experiences.</p>
<p>Cornell engineering at the undergraduate level is a bit stronger than Northwestern and Penn.</p>
<p>USN graduate ranking for industrial engineering:
1 Georgia Institute of Technology
2 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
3 University of California–Berkeley
4 Stanford University
5 Northwestern University (McCormick)
6 Pennsylvania State University–University Park
7 Virginia Tech
8 Purdue University–West Lafayette
9 Cornell University
9 Texas A&M University–College Station
9 University of Wisconsin–Madison
12 Columbia University (Fu Foundation)
13 North Carolina State University
13 University of Florida
13 University of Southern California (Viterbi)
16 Lehigh University (Rossin)
16 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
18 Arizona State University (Fulton)
18 Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
18 University of Texas–Austin (Cockrell)
21 Auburn University (Ginn)
21 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick
23 Iowa State University
23 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
23 University at Buffalo–SUNY
23 University of Pittsburgh</p>
<p>At Northwestern, there’s double-major in IEMS/econ that can be easily done within 4 years.</p>
<p>I second CayugaRed. What are you going to grad school for? More industrial engineering or something like an MBA?</p>
<p>For the former, Cornell stands out as a great choice as it has the best actual engineering school. For the latter, Penn stands out as a great choice because it tends to produce very well-rounded engineering graduates who have taken advantage of the One University policy.</p>
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<p>For undergraduate study? Yes. </p>
<p>MIT, CMU, Stanford, and Cornell offer the best resources and most engineering-minded education for undergraduates. Princeton and Northwestern stand out as well. And RPI is underrated. </p>
<p>The large state schools are a worthy option as well, especially if finances need to be taken into consideration. But at the large state schools, it’s easier for a student to get lost in the crowds. And given the fact that the State of California seems to be quickly devolving into a Mad Max alternative universe, who knows how much money Berkeley will get from future state budgets.</p>
<p>Those rankings are more helpful as guidelines. For the individual programs it’s all based on peer review.</p>
<p>@ XALAPAO …
I’m planning to apply to penn as well this year…
but they dont have industrial engineering… so is systems engineering similar? … and how easy is a double major -econ and IE at all the schools ?
And what did u finally decide on??
Thnx</p>