<p>"Moreover, its really only better for engineering industry preparation and watching football. "</p>
<p>That’s not so, it is better for watching basketball too. Don’t get Hawkette started…</p>
<p>“There are more things to consider than an undergraduate engineering ranking.”</p>
<p>Yes, for one thing there is hockey. Which, amazingly Yale has gotten really good at lately.</p>
<p>Suggest past the top tier be wary of these rankings, it appears that colleges can “earn” higher rankings by having some relatively strong research groups in just a few areas covered, even if they are only in particular sub-areas of the field. The schools don’t seem to be penalized for not covering the field comprehensively. Or for not offering substantial breadth and depth of courses in engineering. For example, IIRC there are ranked schools that are completely absent a huge practice area, such as civil engineering, altogether. So yeah you can go there and become an “engineer” of some sort, but don’t worry about your preferences turning to civil engineering once you’re there, because they don’t have it, altogether. Ditto other areas/ sub-aras of the field that they don’t have.</p>
<p>Suggest for each school, as one indication count the courses actually offered in a given semester, in engineering, from the registrar’s list of courses actually being given (not from the catalog), and the # professors. This wiill give some idea of the breadth and depth of what one can learn there, in engineering.</p>
<p>“Banking is a waste of a good education, if you ask me. I get the impression that bankers are greedy and shallow.”</p>
<p>I sneeze at your impression. However I would say that if you go into banking from an engineering undergrad you may have relatively wasted an undergraduate education, training for a vocation you will never practice, when you could have spent more time learning more interesting/broadening stuff instead. Even pragmatically speaking, at your banking cocktail parties, another liberal arts course will have more schmoozing value than that extra course in advanced semiconductor electronics. Just my opinion. having actually made that journey.</p>