<p>Actually, what you should do is readjust for size. Caltech and Princeton have a lot less engineering faculty than UT-Austin. </p>
<p>As for derailing, I vote for Berklee. I have a friend who goes there for sound engineering, and he says it’s legit.</p>
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<p>no, actually that’s just ignorance by lay people that have no clue. And the prestige argument makes zero sense, considering that, by definition, NAE membership is perhaps the most prestigious engineering recognition. NAE membership is also the only award category USNWR uses as a criterion in its graduate engineering rankings.</p>
<p>If I understand correctly, you’re basically saying faculty quality means absolutely nothing as long as the general public “thinks” it’s more prestigious? Nice!</p>
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<p>okay, but even by % UT is still in the top 10. but this is one case where % doesn’t make much sense anyway. So what if 50% of your faculty is NAE if you only have 10 total?!? How much academic breadth and depth can you truly offer with a small “boutique” faculty compared to a much larger faculty that includes more actual accomplished members, regardless of being a smaller % on paper?</p>
<p>choosing caltech over UT-Austin is ignorance by lay people?</p>
<p>what the f. you continue to amuse me.</p>
<p>What about the service academies? Their engineering programs (because of the funding) are really good and their students are very well rounded.</p>
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<p>Caltech, no. 29 is a very respectable # for its size. however, Caltech isn’t really seen as much as an engineering school as a pure sciences school anyway. However, for someone that doesn’t want to go into academia and wants to be an actual practicing engineer, UT may very well be the better choice by virtue of diversity of course offerings. Duke? for engineering, yes, that is ignorant.</p>
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<p>omgosh. your overzealous fanboyism for UT-Austin is hilarious.
i didn’t think you were serious.</p>
<p>good for you that your favorite school has so many NAE ppl in it. not that anybody cares.</p>
<p>Why make this so complicated when there’s already an engineering reputation ranking out there from US News?</p>
<p>Peer Assessment = Reputation, simple as that!</p>
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<p>Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs (At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate) (based on Peer Assessment)</p>
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<li>Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 4.9</li>
<li>Stanford University (CA) 4.7</li>
<li>University of California–Berkeley * 4.7</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology 4.6</li>
<li>Georgia Institute of Technology * 4.5</li>
<li>U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign * 4.5</li>
<li>Cornell University (NY) 4.4</li>
<li>University of Michigan–Ann Arbor * 4.4</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University ¶ 4.2</li>
<li>Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)* 4.2</li>
<li>University of Texas–Austin * 4.2</li>
<li>Princeton University (NJ) 4.1</li>
<li>Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison * 4.0</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University (MD) 3.9</li>
<li>Northwestern University (IL) 3.9</li>
<li>Virginia Tech * 3.9</li>
<li>Pennsylvania State U.–University Park * 3.8</li>
<li>Rice University (TX) 3.8</li>
<li>Texas A&M Univ.–College Station * 3.8</li>
<li>Columbia University (NY) 3.7</li>
<li>Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY) 3.7</li>
<li>Univ. of California–Los Angeles * 3.7</li>
<li>Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities * 3.7</li>
<li>University of Washington * 3.7</li>
<li>Duke University (NC) 3.6</li>
<li>Ohio State University–Columbus * 3.6</li>
<li>Univ. of California–San Diego * 3.6</li>
<li>Univ. of Maryland–College Park * 3.6</li>
<li>North Carolina State U.–Raleigh * 3.5</li>
<li>University of Florida * 3.5</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania 3.5</li>
<li>Univ. of Southern California 3.5</li>
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<p>This is what happens when we don’t derail the thread, people.</p>
<p>You might have better luck finding a girlfriend in the “College Life” section, aibarr. Just sayin’</p>
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<p>My husband would be mad if I got a girlfriend.
Actually, maybe not.</p>
<p>Either way, you’ve really got your threads/people mixed up.</p>
<p>i was confused until i realized he posted in a wrong thread. </p>
<p>i thought maybe he was trying to derail this thread in a very creative way.</p>
<p>Okay aibarr, I’ll start off…</p>
<p>I had a turkey sandwich for lunch today along with some kettle chips and a Coke. It was really good. What did you have?</p>
<p>Thanks guys. I just wanted different opinions on what makes up a prestigious engineering university. </p>
<p>JWT86: I never thought of looking at NAE stats</p>
<p>xjis: yes, I am an illinois fan.</p>
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<p>My lunch experience today was actually quite exemplary. I had a sandwich as well, but it was from Chick-Fil-A. I allow myself one trip to Chick-Fil-A per month, and today was it. My brother takes the light rail downtown every now and then from Rice, where he is a grad student, to join me for lunch, and we decided to splurge.</p>
<p>Don’t you hate it when you realize that you want some insanely delicious chicken and start to drive to Chick-Fil-A, only to realize that it’s Sunday and they’re closed? So sad.</p>
<p>I’m glad that we both enjoyed our poultry sandwiches.</p>
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<p>He would have gotten points for creativity.</p>
<p>1) ITT Tech 2) Devry 3) Lincoln Technical Institute 4) MiT 5) Caltech 6) Stanford</p>
<p>ITT Tech hahahaha</p>
<p>1) college of dupage (common guys, its got the best fast track program out there)
<p>MIT/BERKELEY/MICHIGAN/CALTECH/GTECH/UT AUSTIN/PURDUE
some of the college are badly ranked according to US news like Austin and Purdue but in fact are way better than some of the ivy league</p>
<p>Please start a new thread - this one is almost four years old.</p>