The counterintuitive side of engineering

Oddball390
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:04:31 +0000

I might have missed it earlier in the thread, but did anyone have the stats for percentage of CSU students going to grad school? I know in my experience, the top students in classes tend to go to grad school (not 100%, but for the most part true)

Obviously it varies from school to school, but this has not been the case from what I’ve observed. The top engineering students (3.7+ GPA) usually get good non-engineering positions like I-banking (they are also offered engineering jobs, but choose not to take them). Everyone else tries to get an engineering job, and those who fail to get jobs but have decent grades go to grad school as a last resort.

There are plenty of grad students who have good grades and are employed, but the difference is that they didn’t go to grad school right away. Instead they finished undergrad, worked for a couple of years, and then went to grad school in the hopes of getting a raise and/or promotion.