Quality of Undergrad Program

jack63
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:11:47 +0000

Cosmicfish, Momwaitingfornew…thanks for your replies. My personal experience on this subject is limited. I’ve seen a list of alma maters of newly accepted engineering PhD students at a recruiting event I was invited to once. That is about the extent of my understanding of how grad schools consider undergrad reputation. I did notice that about 60% to 70% were from schools with top engineering programs, top national universities, top Liberal arts colleges, or top international schools. Not every admit was from a “prestigous…I use the term hesitantly” school though.

This group of newly admitted students was very diverse in terms of schools they had attended. Rarely, did one dept(ie electrical or mechanical engineering) have more than one student with an alma mater from the same school. For example, practically everybody in the mechanical engineering dept list of newly accepted students came from different undergrad schools.