<p>Can anyone describe the atmosphere in engineering or M&T for women? My daughter is interested in Mechanical or Systems Engineering and Operations Management but doesn’t want to be the ONLY woman. She’s looking for a “critical mass” of women in her field. The big time engineering schools have these statistics but I can’t find any statistics for Penn. Penn offers the one thing that big engineering schools don’t have: A CITY.</p>
<p>I might be wrong but SEAS <em>might</em> be between 30 and 40% female. Some majors like BE, Systems, and <em>maybe</em> CBE are more girl heavy than stuff like MEAM and EE. While she might not have a ton of girls in her engineering classes, she’ll find enough girls through her other classes like graduation requirements and Wharton ones (if she gets into M+T). She’ll find more girls if she does engineering at a women’s school, but those tend to be ranked fairly low (like other LACs).</p>
<p>Other schools to look at might be Columbia and Princeton which both have Operations Research majors in their engineering schoos.</p>