Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

insanedreamer
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 06:06:20 +0000

Yes, it’s a highly respected engineering college by top employers.

For example, it’s ranked #12 by a 2015 Business Insider survey of business professionals. http://www.businessinsider.com/best-computer-science-engineering-schools-in-america-2015-7

Also ranked #22 by employers in a WSJ survey - this was 2010 and it’s ratings have improved since then (and acceptance rate decreased):
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703376504575491704156387646

Carnegie Mellon lists it as a “peer institution” on their website.

As far as employment outcomes go, it’s one of only 6 Universities that, according to the US Gov Scorecard, have a graduation rate over 80% and average salary over $80K (the other 5 are Harvard, MIT, Georgetown, Stanford, Babson). https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search/?completion_rate=0.8…&median_earnings=80000…&sort=salary:desc