Some questions about Lafayette!

Lafalum84
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:23:40 +0000

Engineering - the program is well-respected. My father was a mechanical engineer, and he said when he was hiring and Human Resources gave him a stack of resumes/applications to review, there were certain schools that would always warrant his pulling the app and giving it a second look. Lafayette was one of those schools. I also know a civil engineer in my neighborhood who told me every time he has encountered a fellow engineer who graduated from Lafayette, he has always been impressed with their work.

USNWR - I think the boycott of the rankings has definitely affected Laf. There are other colleges (Clemson, for example) who have admitted doing things for the sole reason that it would move them up the rankings. Clearly Lafayette isn’t doing that, they’re doing what they think is best for their students instead. I don’t know of anything else specifically that would cause them to slip in the rankings. (For example, everyone’s endowment took a hit when the economy went bad, but Lafayette is still a very wealthy college in comparison to most schools).