Obligated to do different major?

happymomof1
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:49:39 +0000

If you don’t get good financial aid packages from the universities that you have applied to, check out your home state public universities and even your closest community colleges. To find ABET accredited engineering programs in your state, use [Accredited Programs Search](http://www.abet.org/AccredProgramSearch/AccreditationSearch.aspx) Talk with the admissions offices at the community colleges that you can commute to for the first two years, and find out if they offer the initial engineering courses and a formal articulation (guaranteed admission) agreement with the public university’s engineering program. I know several working engineers who followed that route either because of lack of money or because they flunked out of college somewhere else on their first try.

Wishing you all the best!