ranking undergraduate engineering schools

hiker
Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:56:41 +0000

So evoke, are you saying the rankings only reflect the caliber of student, that Cal is harder to get into so the students are smarter? But not much difference between #2 and #19 in caliber of prof or money for research or quality of lab equipment (or whatever else goes into the ranking)?

And mercy, sounds like you think the differences in $$, endowment and peer opinions are slight between ranks and not meaningful?

So how do people pick a program? Quality of life, location etc will be important “happiness factors,” we just want to understand what someone gives up academically by walking away from #2.