Colleges to be a civil engineering
Colleges to be a civil engineering
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Hi,I am currently in High school, and was wondering what colleges u recommend for me to go to if I want to be a civil engineer, perhaps the Management side?
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RE: Colleges to be a civil engineering
Depending on where you are located, there are some excellent schools available for BSCE programs...Univ. of Illinois at Champagne, Univ. of Louisville, Purdue, Georgia Tech, Florida, Univ. of Missouri at Rolla, etc....
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It would help if you could narrow down what criteria mean the most to you-how much do you care about location? RPI is good in civil, but it's cold and snowy from Oct to April, in a bad year. Do you want an urban or rural environment?
How much can you afford? State schools are likely to be less expensive-any close to you? The first 2 years are pretty much the same for most engineers-specialty courses are higher level.
Look at what, if any, businesses recruit at the college you're interested in. Are you interested in those businesses?
Does your hs have college fairs?
Do you know any civil engineers to talk this over with?
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Your Grades/Scores
Your Location
Your Price Range
Your Scholarships if any
With those 4 things, we could probably narrow you to 3 best alternates pretty easily.
Hydrology, Drainage Analysis, Flood Studies, and Complex Stormwater Litigation for Atlanta and the South East - http://www.campbellcivil.com
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Also need to know your grades, location and price range. I am most familiar with the NE and good civil schools in the NE with low-moderate tuition fees: Penn St, University at Buffalo, SUNY EFC (affiliated with Syracuse), Pittsburgh, and can't forget West Point. Good SE schools with low-mod fees: NC State, GA Tech. Obviously in-state tuition is much cheaper for state schools.
PAUL S SNYDER, P.E.
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I'd rather hire an engineer with a full year of intern experience (with good work references) from a state school, than a grad on the top five list with no experience.
Employers look for:
1. Work Experience
2. Work Ethic
3. Team Players
as well as education.
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Thanks again for your support.
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This is a good article on college ROI:
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..with colleges ranked based on lifetime expected salary return on investment. The only stupid thing about the article is that the author apparently doesn't know the definition of ROI is a percentage, not a fixed number. So he writes an article about how MIT has the highest ROI of colleges, when in fact the highest ROI comes from Georgia Tech. The full list is here, and sortable by column:
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The actual top six ROI schools are:
Georgia Tech
BYU
UVA
William and Mary
Colorado School of Mines
Virginia Tech
3 of the top 6 in Virginia is because of the federal centralization of power I'd guess, but that's a political discussion we probably don't need to get into here.
Hydrology, Drainage Analysis, Flood Studies, and Complex Stormwater Litigation for Atlanta and the South East - http://www.campbellcivil.com
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Although Northeastern does provide "trimesters", where one of their "trimesters" is actually a co-op with an engineering company in your field (from what I heard).
Again, location, grades, and cost (including scholarships) are important factors, but in myh opinion not as important as accreditation of the program and internship or co-op opportunities.
Best of luck.
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The whole aticle is garbage, not just the calculation for ROI.
The compensation numbers are self reported so who knows what people are actually making. If you believe the numbers, the dilbert from MIT will be making 50% more than the GT person sitting in the next cubicle (with exactly the same background and corporate position). That makes little sense.
The study also does not account for the value of particular fields of study. One may enroll in the proverbial basket weaving majors at MIT and one would expect the career earnings will be substantially less than for someone with a more rigorous course of study at a less expensive school.
RE: Colleges to be a civil engineering
Hydrology, Drainage Analysis, Flood Studies, and Complex Stormwater Litigation for Atlanta and the South East - http://www.campbellcivil.com
RE: Colleges to be a civil engineering