ranking undergraduate engineering schools

shoebox10
Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:31:35 +0000

Don’t sweat the rankings. Anything in the top 30 is going to be a superb engineering school. Instead, have her focus on what makes each school unique: people, social life, curriculum (!!), location, cost, ect. The difference between the #2 and the #19 school is going to be minimal within engineering, but the differences in college life and her actual curriculum will be bigger.

Trust me, I’m at an engineering school based on its ranking and the fact it was IS for me (Virginia Tech, alllll the way over here on the east coast =P) without doing any research into the differences within the programs of schools (other than I knew it had big departments and superb rankings). Now, i’m stuck trying to transfer into a school that has a more liberal arts approach to engineering (UVa), that alhtough has a lower ranking, is better suited for me in every aspect (location, social life, campus life, curriculum, ect).