<p>How popular/selective is Pton’s Aerospace Engineering program?</p>
<p>What about the quality of the program? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Well, you have to get into the university first, and once you’re there you just choose it. They won’t really choose you solely on the basis of Aerospace Engineering. It’s pretty good. Engineering in general is smaller at Princeton than other big name schools (MIT, Stanford, etc.), but you’ll get a phenomenal education.</p>
<p>If you want to study Aerospace Engineering at Princeton, you have to be a MAE (mechanical and aerospace engineering) major.</p>
<p>With regards to the MAE major’s popularity, there were 33 MAE undergraduate degrees conferred last year out of a total of 168 engineering degrees.</p>
<p><a href=“http://registrar1.princeton.edu/data/conferred/ug_byacad.pdf[/url]”>http://registrar1.princeton.edu/data/conferred/ug_byacad.pdf</a></p>
<p>MAE is considered a fairly rigorous major at Princeton and even at the engineering school (I’d say probably the second hardest, after EE). The quality of the program is top notch. Generally, the MAE program at Princeton ranks as one of the top in the nation. Another advantages of having a relatively small size of graduates in your department is that professors lavish an enormous amount of attention on you. Alumni speakers are also great - Norm Augustine, the former CEO and chairman of Lockhead Martin (and Princeton MAE class of '57) has come twice to campus this so far this year to talk with students.</p>
<p>All said and done, you do get a great education, and employers know this. Here’s a list of employers that came to Princeton’s Science and Technology job fair:</p>
<p><a href=“http://engineering.princeton.edu/uinfo/JobFairList06.html[/url]”>http://engineering.princeton.edu/uinfo/JobFairList06.html</a></p>
<p>There’s also a job fair for all students (non engineers too), and a good number of Sci/Tech companies come to that one instead, and some come to both.</p>
<p>wonderful post… thanks fitzrandolph!</p>