Upenn vs. Dartmouth

Cibbir_H
Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:54:08 +0000

One more thing: Dartmouth does not offer a B.S.E. degree. Their four year engineering degree is a B.A. Engineers at Dartmouth are encouraged to have a broad liberal arts education, which is different from pre-professionally oriented Penn (when I was thinking of becoming an engineer that is something I took into consideration.)

However, Dartmouth offers a unique 5 year engineering program that is a B.E, and I believe also a 6 year program that offers a combined B.A. and M.S. in engineering. They also have a combined degree program which sounds intriguing, but I don’t know much about it!

Dartmouth’s engineering program is quite small - most students at Dartmouth don’t take engineering - but for those who do, they get as good of (if not better) an engineering education than larger programs like Penn’s.

So, those are my tidbits of advice. I would tell you more but I don’t know more. If you want to find out more info from Dartmouth I would suggest contacting the Thayer Engineering School (Dartmouth’s engineering department) and asking them questions. They were very friendly and responsive to me as a prospective student, so for someone who has already been admitted (i.e. you!) they will probably be even happier to explain to you what they are all about!