Top 50 Engineering Schools Involvement

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Originally Posted by ErikJ

If your end aim is to try to convince a school to participate in FIRST, a thread like this will be a big help. While trying to drum up support at the college level for our activities, I brought in a similar list I made by just scanning through a program and the scholarship list. OSU, like many schools, have identified so called "peer" institutions - schools we think we compare well with in terms of size, research dollars, industry/academic reputation, things like that. I listed how those schools were involved (a la teams, regionals, and scholarships) and listed what (fairly little) support we were getting from the university at the time. The one dean made my point for me when she rightly pointed out - "so all these schools give scholarships and we don't". Something like that can be a pretty powerful tool - colleges are just as competitive as businesses.

Especially if the schools are rival state schools you can put a lot of pressure. That what our team did to the state schools and now there are going to be 3 new scholarships.

I'm a little dissapointed my college (K-State) didn't make the top 50. It is definitely in the top ten for value and the college overall for non-engineers is amazing. Most truman, goldwater, rhodes scholars from a public university, at least something like that. And a decent football team, not going to fight with the osu fans. Had to put my plug in. I want all the FIRST kid I can get so I can get help in possibly starting a team next year.

As for the university. They began offering a 12,000 dollar scholarship (3000 for 4 year) this year. I am setting up a FIRST booth for Open House and hopefully I'll get some interest.

KC is having a regional next year so that will cut cost for all us midwestern teams.

EDIT: OH I see! This list is more the best graduate school type list. K-State has one of the best undergraduate engineering programs in the country. We just go everywhere else to get our PhD's.

Look here to see what they are ranked on: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/gra...rank_brief.php