Pitt Swanson or USC Viterbi

AwesomeOpossum
Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:51:55 +0000

I also want to point out that “prestige” is a BS reason to pick a school. Any school has prestige in the right environment (for instance, you are more likely to get a response from a local here by saying you go to Pitt or CMU compared to USC). So that’s not really worth it.

As you yourself pointed out, SSOE has great internship/co-op opportunities for its students as well as on campus research opportunities. When I graduated in April, nearly everyone walking already had a job offer or graduate school lined up for them. Most schools do not have these kinds of placement statistics (my sister had friends at her “prestigious” school who took over a year to get a job in an engineering field). Just an FYI- prestige isn’t really worth it as a factor.