Is engineering at yale really worth it

monydad
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:30:39 +0000

Selection of a particular program may depend partly on your particular objectives.

If you want to be a practicing engineer:
suggest look into/ compare the # of engineering courses offered, # of engineering faculty members, # areas of study offered, comprehensive coverage of the major areas of engineering such as civil engineering, etc. And the major sub-areas as well.

If a school doesn’t offer something, you will be funneled by necessity into what it does have. Which may be fine in and of itself, but may not be the path you would have chosen if you had more selection.

Also look into the # of recruiters who come to campus recruiting specifically for engineering jobs.

If you want to do research, the above also is applicable, but you should also check into opportunities related to that path. It’s possible that schools that are geared towards producing future researchers are not identical to those geared more towards producing more practitioners.

If you want to be an investment banker: suggest don’t go to engineering school, suboptimal use of your one shot at a college education to expend so much effort learning all that technical stuff you don’t plan to ever use. But that’s up to you.