Tufts, Penn State or Illinois for engineering?

xraymancs
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 21:22:58 +0000

There is plenty of “hands on” in most engineering programs as long as the student seeks it out. Attrition in engineering programs is generally higher than some other majors simply because lots of students start by thinking they want to be engineers (because of the obvious job prospects) but they they run into the realities that it is a challenging major and maybe they realize that it is not the profession they had thought it would be. For this reason, I would not worry about the specific attrition rate. However, I agree that big schools like PSU and UIUC that have strong engineering reputations (which are primarily based on their research and graduate programs), have a lot of opportunities.