<p>I’ve been looking at several colleges lately (rising senior) and Northwestern has caught my eye. I want to pursue a degree in Aerospace Engineering, and I just wanted to know how good the program is there compared to other schools like Purdue or UMD College Park.</p>
<p>I don’t think we have an aerospace engineering major separated out. The closest I believe we have is mechanical.</p>
<p>We don’t have aerospace engineering (do more research on your schools, so you don’t embarass yourself in your applications!!!) and most people who are interested in Aero do Mechanical Engineering like arbiter said.</p>
<p>I know a mechanical engineering student who is currently interning at Boeing, and another one had an internship at Northrop Grumman in the past, so that’s definitely the major you’d be going for.</p>
<p>If you’re set on aerospace engineering, I’d recommend going to a school that offers aerospace engineering since that’s where all the alumni connections in that program will be (companies generally recruit where their current employees went to school). UMD and Purdue are fine choices, and you would have little difficulty breaking into the aerospace industry out of Georgia Tech, Michigan, Cornell, Penn State, or Virginia Tech either. You definitely have a shot at the aerospace industry out of mechanical engineering at Northwestern, but I think you’d be making it harder on yourself than it has to be.</p>