Northwestern vs. Johns Hopkins

Blah2009
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:05:13 +0000

In Reply to SamLee:

While you are in DC, have you checked out Adam’s Morgan or Dupont Circle? Those areas are usually quite happening with young professionals. Baltimore has something better called Fells Point and Federal Hill that definitely rivals the nightlife and bar scene of Chicago anyday. Granted parts of Baltimore in general sucks in comparison to Chicago, the surrounding area of Hopkins is quite awesome. They’ve definitely made (and are still making) strides in improving it as a true college town.

FYI using US News grad rankings (we could also use NRC rankings, but the rankings change depending on user criteria selected):

NU vs JHU:

BME NU #15 vs JHU #1
Chem E NU #16 vs. JHU #23
Civil NU #12 vs. JHU #22
Comp Eng. NU #28 vs. JHU #28
Electrical Eng. NU #31 vs. JHU #25
Environmental NU #27 vs. JHU #7
Materials NU #3 vs. JHU #22
Mechanical NU #11 vs. JHU #16
Applied Math/Statistics #48 vs. JHU #5

JHU doesn’t have industrial engineering. Among common engineering majors, I’d say both engineering programs are on equal footing.