Northwestern vs. Cornell vs. Michigan vs UPenn all Industrial Engineering

emer225
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:19:14 +0000

I was admitted to engineering programs at these universities. I plan to study industrial engineering. For what it is worth i live in Chicago, and hope to work in Chicago after I graduate (is NU the best for this?). The most important things to me are to have fun, and to get the most valuable degree and a good GPA (I hear it is impossible to get a good GPA at Cornell, not sure about the others). One good thing about Cornell however would be that they are the only school that teaches Bahasa Indonesia of the four, of which I have a conversational proficiency, but hope to develop a working proficiency of. UPenn on the other hand seems to be the most prestigious, seeing as how lots of kids got into the other three colleges from my HS, but most were denied by UPenn.

Please compare these schools, and tell me which one you think is the best fit for me, or just which one you would prefer.