Lafayette vs Cornell Engineering

You can compare pay level outcomes by major at College Scorecard. However, the student cohorts are those who used federal financial aid, which presumably does not include you if you and your parents could be paying list price at Cornell. It is also not obvious whether any differences are due to a treatment effect by the school (i.e. the same student in the same major at one school would have a better outcome than the other) or due to the selection effect of differences in student academic strength between schools.

Of course, be aware that engineering majors tend to be high workload majors (e.g. labs and projects). You may want to investigate how well student athletes in your sport or those with similar practice and competition time commitment handle engineering majors at each school.

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