Purdue or Rose-Hulman？

BrownParent
Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:40:42 +0000

Congratulations, those are very nice admits. I think you should spend the time to read everything about these two colleges. They will both have their own strengths and attractions, and perhaps shortcomings too. They are very different in environment in my understanding, although I can’t say I have done a lot of research. Did you read all their own pages about the school, about the major? Did you look up the major requirements? The general graduation requirements? Did you research class size? Find any information about how many really graduate and in the major?

Each of these will prepare you very well for graduate school if you do well, seek out opportunities for projects and research too. There is no question of that. Is there any significant cost difference?

I could list features but you may have to pay me a dollar for every point I write. Or you can read for yourself. Probably in your country Purdue is more well known. It is a major public research university. Rose Hulman is less known because it is smaller and graduates less people but it will be well known to grad schools and employers, since it is a tech only school and 20 pct of students go directly to grad school which is a goo rate. They also have a much higher graduation rate than Purdue, but that is because a lot of students aren’t prepared enough for college at public universities and they fail out or run out of money. The strong students have amazing resources at Purdue. However you are going to have much larger classes with TA’s and less individual attention than at Rose Hulman where only profs will teach you, at least at first. But there will be a big school atmosphere some will enjoy more, sports and a variety of different types of people. Also more girls, maybe not so many in engineering but overall 45 pct women where Rose Hulman is 80 pct men. And that is just the bit I know.