Small/ Mid Size Engineering Schools-EE

anxiousmom
Mon, 29 May 2006 14:29:45 +0000

What about Rice? It has a much higher acceptance rate for OOS students, and is cheaper than most highly-selective schools. The campus is huge and green and in lovely part of Houston. (Much of Houston is awful, but the area around Rice is lovely.) It has a strong engineering department, but a close-knit fun-loving, supportive community, well-balanced 50-50 male/female, and ethnically and socially diverse group. Again, the acceptance rate for oos students is somewhere around 40%; much lower for Texas students. They meet full financial need, etc.etc. Undergrad population is 2900; with grad students it’s about 4800. music conservatory, architecture school, residential college system. My DD loves it there- but is heading off to Chile for 5 months study abroad. BTW - the engineering department has lots of cool paid internships, and direct-exchange studyabroad opportunities, and a chapter of “Engineers without borders”.