Rose Hulman Vs Harvey Mudd

Xrposiedon
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 05:58:55 +0000

@ClassicRockerDad

I know this post is old, but I have ready through many of your posts. You talk about admissions to RHIT and the “Rigorous Nature” …I have a friend and a co-worker who both went there…and those people know their stuff…leaps and bounds more than the people at work from Cal-Poly or UC Berkley, or for that matter even people with masters from State schools.

I can tell you that the stories I have heard from that school…would scare the living crap out of me if I was a student. The students most often are studying until 4-5 in the morning, for a test that is occasionally only 1 question. The complaint from a lot of students who don’t make it through isn’t that the school was not “right for them”…it was the fact that the school was too hard for them.

Now, on some other posts, you spoke of notoriety and Ph.D admissions. Not many people are going to Rose planning for a Ph.D…not to mention that its a very small school of 3000ish students…so most people who do pursue degrees post undergrad are not only admitted , but find Ph.D programs a cakewalk. The majority of students however, go directly into the workforce (97% placement) by time of graduation.

Notoriety? No doctorate program…not a lot of published papers in journals etc…

However, go to apply at Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Hitachi…name a big company…and I can bet you hands down they know the school. If they don’t; then isn’t that really just a bad recruiter not knowing the top ranked schools?

Not only does the school boast the 5th highest average salary after graduation, but it has been #1 Engineering for 18 straight years from their website…

So for what it is…an Undergraduate Engineering Holy Land…it isn’t really comparable. The comparisons I’ve seen made are squashed by rankings and stats.