Why Columbia SEAS over Cornell Engineering?

confidentialcoll
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:42:18 +0000

it comes down to location and fit, cornell engineering has a better reputation in the engineering world, but many engineers go into consulting/finance/law/med/international development and for all these columbia is either as good or better. The incoming students are also comparable (columbia might have a slight edge here on the stats front), but basically both schools are filled with intelligent, ambitious and driven students, cornell’s focus is on traditional engineer, columbia engineerings (while there are several true engineers) want to go into consulting/finance/law/med/international development there’s also a growing bunch who want to get involved with or run tech-start ups. People land great jobs all the time from nasa to google to apple to boeing, so recruiting for traditional engineering seems pretty good even if the rankings don’t reveal it.