Villanova vs. RPI vs. Lehigh

rico2
Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:39:45 +0000

“As for the other schools, Stevens is not all that impressive (although geographically, they do enjoy the best location) and SUNY Binghampton isn’t even the best SUNY for engineering. (Stonybrook is the one). I would say to choose between PSU, Nova, and Lehigh. Do your research on RPI; who knows, maybe I’m overreacting, but the fact is, their engineering department has fallen quite a bit in the last 6 years.”

R.P.I. is better than ever. They just finished a $1.4 billion capital campaign. A lot of that money was used to constuct new, world class facilities like the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.

Also, the SAT scores are at an all time high as are the number of applications.

U.S. News department rankings are deeply flawed as they are only a peer assessment and do not factor in student quality and other metrics used in the overall rankings.