I live in California, the private ones I know are Cal Tech, Harvey Mudd, and Stanford. The public ones are UCLA and UC Berkeley. MIT is the only one I know outside of CA. What are some other ones?
2007-09-13 16:20:14 · 6 answers · asked by corona7w 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
I used to recruit engineers for a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company. Here's some of the ones (excluding CA schools which you already know) that I know/have heard are better in these ENGINEERING fields (I'm sure a hundred people will chime in with additions/dissensions:-)
Ga Tech - Nuclear Eng., Electrical Eng., Textile Eng., Computer Eng., Industrial & Systems Eng.. (I'm a Tech Chem E., but Ga Tech, though a top 5 school overall, is not one of the top schools in Chen Eng.)
MIT (the Ga Tech of the North:-) - Mechanical Eng., Computer Eng.
U of Wisconsin - Madison (cooold winters!!) - Chemical Eng.
Embry Riddle (in Daytona Beach!) - Aeronautics
Cooper Union (NYC - free tuition - check it out!) - Mechanical Eng.
U of Michigan - (never been there, but Michigan Staters who considered going there complained it's very competitive - even cutthroat) - Mechanical Eng., Civil Eng., Electrical Eng.
U of Illinois - Urbana - Civil Eng.
Merchant Marine Academy (NYC - get ship tour around the world after graduation!) - Ocean & Marine Eng.
Also check this out:
http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/brief/engrank_brief.php
(Ga. Tech No. 4 - Go Jackets!!)
2007-09-13 16:56:32 · answer #1 · answered by Liquidator1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is interesting. I have noticed it as well but I am not sure if it is any less percentage than non-athletes. As a whole, there are not alot of students pursuing science and engineering majors. Big shortage in the nation. I think when you have big football schools like Florida, they are recruiting the best players in the country and they just happen to not be science or engineering types. In smaller schools you do find alot of engineers. I am a civil engineer and most of the players who I played with on my college team were also engineering or science majors but we were a small college in South Dakota so you can take that for what it is. Probably alot of this stems from where the players came from and where they grew up. Some of those kids don't have good opportunities to learn because of the tough and dangerous elementary and high schools they attend. Alot of these guys had the potential to be better academically if they grew up in a different environment. They have constantly been told they cannot do it or they fall so far behind from not getting a good elementary education it is hard for them to catch up so they give up and just focus on making it in sports instead. Client_u - what a stupid comment. I had an athletic scholarship and I am an engineer There are plenty of NFL players who earn very good degrees. Just one example is Matt Birk (former Viking). He went to Harvard and has a degree in economics Myron Rolle (Titans 2010 draft pick) is a Rhodes scholar
2016-05-19 01:06:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you say famous, I only think of Cal Tech, GA Tech, and MIT. Those are schools who are tops in patents, resesearch fellows, Nobel prize winners, etc. They are famous for science and engineering. They are known around the world as engineering schools. I would argue that Harvey Mudd, Stanford, UCLA, and UC Berkeley are famous, but not for science and engineering. Some of the other schools named have great engineering schools, but they aren't *famous* for it.
2007-09-14 12:28:45 · answer #3 · answered by diva1913 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stony Brook in New York is supposed to be pretty good. Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.
2007-09-13 16:36:42 · answer #4 · answered by neniaf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
University of Missouri - Columbia has really good science and engineering programs.
2007-09-13 16:28:10 · answer #5 · answered by Michele 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
georgia tech, virginia tech, texas, texas a&m, rice, michigan, lehigh, penn state, rensselaer polytech
2007-09-14 04:59:29 · answer #6 · answered by bsteale83 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋