<p>What are some underrated, relatively unknown Engineering schools in your opinion? I know several ones but one of my favorites is New Mexico Tech.</p>
<p>Small school, very reasonably priced, very good bang for the buck, located in a God forsaken town called Socorro, New Mexico. </p>
<p>I used to live in Albuquerque and sometimes I would drive down I 25 past Socorro, a town literally in the middle of nowhere :)</p>
<p>*SUNY Maritime Academy: small school on Long Island Sound. Very good ME department and students are not required to join the cadet corps.
*U of Portland: surprisingly good job placement, including NASA and the JPL, for example.
*U of Maryland-Baltimore County: No longer a secret.
*U of Akron: outstanding research in polymers
*U of Tennessee-Knoxville: new engineering building and $$ investments in research
*Illinois Institute of Technology: ample student research opportunities
*S. Dakota School of Mines & Technology: Rigorous</p>
<p>Make sure that these schools are ABET accredited. </p>
<p>Colorado School of Mines!!! Has one of the top 10 ROIs in the US</p>
<p>West Virginia Tech, it is located in Montgomery, WV- the town has about 1600 people and the school has about 1000 undergrads. Now it is part of the West Virginia University system, so they changed the name of the school to West Virginia University Institute of Technology :)</p>
<p>Mines is neither underrated or unknown.</p>
<p>I second New Mexico Tech. Cheap! Height placement of students into PhD programs.</p>
<p>New Mexico Tech benefits from being the closest research university to Albuquerque and therefore Sandia and Los Alamos. There is a lot of cooperation there. My PhD advisor got his MS from New Mexico Tech while working at Sandia back in the day.</p>
<p>I feel I should mention my alma mater which is almost unheard of outside of engineering/aerospace (Embry-Riddle Prescott). </p>
<p>Why underrated? Strong connections to the aerospace industry, beautiful mountain/high desert location, mecca for outdoorsy students, excellent aero engineering program, ~1,700 students, tight-knit community, cost is actually not that bad compared to other private or OOS public schools. </p>
<p>As for other schools: NMT is certainly a good mention, as well as NMSU, and SDSoM. </p>
<p>University of Toledo, especially for Ohio residents. Mandatory co-op, and over 10% of of the students in engineering. Not rated by US News and no page on CC, however, ABET accredited and definitely underrated in engineering.</p>
<p>I think people overvalue mandatory co-ops. I prefer options, as a co-op is not ideal for every student. Then again those students can always just go to a different school I suppose.</p>
<p>Boneh3ad, I agree that co-ops aren’t for everyone or even the majority. For those who do want a co-op experience the advantage of a mandatory co-op is that the curriculum is set up for it. Because many of the courses engineering majors are required to take are sequential, students who choose to co-op can be thrown off schedule by a semester or even a year due to a missed class or two. Larger universities which specialize in engineering have enough students that most classes are always offered, mandatory co-op schools also assure classes are available because all of their students are in the same program. U of Toledo has over 2000 engineering students. While the university as a whole is considered a tier 2 university it’s engineering program (and pharmacy) are considered very good programs. I would rank Toledo among the top four programs in Ohio behind OSU, CWRU and equal with Cincinnati which is better known. </p>
<p>Missouri University of Science and Technology… Same sort of school as Colorado school of mines, even to the point that this school was once Missouri school of mines.</p>
<p>Mizzou S&T used to be called University of Missouri-Rolla if I am not mistaken.</p>
<p>@bschoolwiz Correct.</p>
<p>It was the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy before it was UMR. </p>
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<p>I read this wrong and almost called you a hipster. Ha!</p>
<p>Chin beards…I’m over it. 
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<p>Michigan Technological University. But you have to like winter.</p>
<p>Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana is considered the best engineering school which does not offer a Ph.D degree. <a href=“http://www.rose-hulman.edu/”>404 | Rose-Hulman;
<p>", relatively unknown Engineering schools" - depends on the audience </p>
<p>When DH and I (both engineers) started researching colleges, we had never heard of Rose-Hullman or Harvey Mudd or Olin. All are intense, undergrad-only schools which are well represented in rankings… just not well known. Now I know a lot about them all. DS attends Olin and was also accepted to Mudd. (I never could get him interested in Terre Haute.) </p>
<p>A different kind of example is small STEM-centric schools with strong regional reputations - Clarkson, WPI, RIT, Not quite as competitive admission, but very well regarded. </p>