<p>What is your first reaction when you get to know about a school that only has school of business, arts & science, education, etc?</p>
<p>Hmmm, good question. Being in computer science, I wonder how CS grads from schools like U-Oregon, Indiana-U and U-Georgia made out?</p>
<p>Princeton University does not have a School of Engineering, but its engineering department is ranked highly.</p>
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That it wouldn’t be a good place to study engineering? Or are you saying that the degrees are offered, but not through an academic “school”?</p>
<p>It might imply that, this school does not take engineering education very seriously. But that is not necessarily the case.</p>
<p>It would imply that there is a reason I haven’t seen engineering grads from there. Honestly, what does it matter if a particular school has engineering or not? It isn’t a status symbol or anything. Honestly, who cares?</p>
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<p>To a degree it can be seen as a status symbol. The top ranked public schools in USNews the key programs seem to be Business, Engineering, Medicine, and Law - the more you have the better. The reasoning is that those are the most visible programs for a public university and they bring in the most money.</p>
<p>And yet you can point out tons of great schools that don’t have engineering departments and do just fine. Honestly, this seems like a correlation versus causation argument. A lot of top schools have engineering programs, but the fact that they have them isn’t necessarily the reason they are top schools.</p>
<p>Of course, that is beside the point. The question is how do I feel about schools without engineering departments. The way I feel is that if a school’s engineering department (or lack thereof) doesn’t affect the other programs. I am certainly not going to look for good engineers at a school that doesn’t teach engineering, but that won’t prevent me from looking for a good economist there (just as an example).</p>
<p>I know that Physics majors get hired as Engineers, Biology majors get hired as Biology/Environmental Engineers, Chemistry Majors get hired as Chemical Engineers, and Computer Scientists get hired as Computer/Software Engineers. Going into a college without a Engineering Major isn’t a great way to get in the field of Engineering, but it does not close off that door if you major in one of the hard sciences. All Engineering is is the application of scientific knowledge to solve society’s problems. So majoring in the hard sciences doesn’t close off the possibility of working as an Engineer, but it isn’t the best way.</p>
<p>A physics major might get hired for a job with the word “engineer” in the title, but they’re not being hired as an engineer. That doesn’t imply that the physicist isn’t intelligent enough to do well in an engineering curriculum, rather it means that actual engineering is not a career that can be learned on the job.</p>
<p>That said, there are many, many “engineering” positions where the company is simply trying to hire someone that can think analytically. That sort of position would be a good fit for a physicist, scientist, or economist.</p>
<p>“Princeton University does not have a School of Engineering, but its engineering department is ranked highly.”</p>
<p>Princeton does have a School of Engineering & Applied Sciences.
[Princeton</a> Engineering](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/engineering/]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/engineering/)</p>
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<p>LMAO, I wish.</p>
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<p>I think a math major can be fortunate tellers too. I mean just look at the statistics…
OMG.
What a ■■■■■. Where is the ban hammer? Why is TW? must be Time Warner…</p>
<p>The school is a label. An organizational and advertising label. Most of the time a school means there is a specific “building” for a specific “study”. Some colleges do not have engineering schools but they do have divisions of applied science. Harvard didn’t have the school of engineering until 2004, 2005. But prior to that there was the division of applied science and engineering. SEAS @ harvard is very different from other engineering schools - only offers a very limited numbers of SEAS disciplines (and most of them are called “tracks / concentrations”).</p>
<p>Sometime we see CS in the division of science instead of engineering. The question is does including CS in engineering makes the program more powerful? No. If the engineering people want to recruit CS majors to help them with computational tasks, they can recruit CS students anyway. i.e. the real questions are how good is the department? the overall school? how passionates are the instructors about teaching?</p>
<p>Furthermore, the philosophy of the school plays a major role in organizing disciplines. Take the CUNY system. The only School of Engineering in CUNY is the Grove School of Engineering, City College of New York. But CCNY is not the only CUNY college that offers “engineering programs”, however, most engineering and applied science resources would go to CCNY. There are EE, CE, etc programs at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY.</p>