Tufts Engineering and money

ariesathena
Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:07:09 +0000

I loved my engineering education at Tufts. I found that the school has a fantastic reputation in the Boston area (can’t say how it stacks up elsewhere, not having worked elsewhere). All of my classmates either went on to have good jobs or to very reputable masters/Ph.D. programmes. I was one of the few/only people who did not research with a prof (I interned with a company); all of those who did research had meaningful, cutting-edge work.

Classes are small. Most of ours were 24, because it was all of us in the major. Electives were about half that size. The professors really, really cared about us. Tufts also has you into engineering right away, so it’s not two years of gut courses before you start to do the fun stuff.

Now, I’m not sure what you want out of an engineering education, but I personally don’t think you can get much better than Tufts. The rankings, as Snuffles correctly pointed out, are problematic because we have such a small grad school. (In many ways, the schools with high rankings are going to be very, very bad for undergrads, because there simply isn’t enough focus on them. We don’t compete with grad students for the plum research positions with professors. We get them ourselves, starting pretty early on in our education.)

I loved it, and, if I could go back, would do it all over again.