<p>Actually, Yale has easily one of the best undergraduate engineering programs in the country. It has greatly expanded over the past 5-10 years, but is still somewhat smaller than places like Purdue, Berkeley, MIT and other schools with thousands upon thousands of engineering students, so is sometimes misunderstood. See the CC thread at <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/375658-yale-engineering.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/375658-yale-engineering.html</a> for a much more detailed discussion of the program. </p>
<p>In terms of facilities, they are on par or better than those of any other top university, which is part of the reason why Yale is actually ranked #1 for engineering research impact (see the thread above), just above the runner-ups Caltech and Stanford. For example, they just finished an $8M clean room for cutting-edge nanotech research and two new biomedical engineering buildings (costing over $200M) with advanced labs, all of which are highly accessible to undergraduates - in stark contrast to some of the other research universities out there.</p>
<p>Also, if you want to study liberal arts as well, there is no better place to be.</p>