College Stuff

[Ben Lauer]

Here are some links:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/col...ophd_brief.php
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/col...hphd_brief.php
http://www.studentsreview.com/top_en...s_ranking.html
http://education.yahoo.com/college/e..._rank_eng.html

Those are just some random links I pulled from online. Check them out, talk to people, you have plenty of time to decide.

[sciguy125]

Something else you might want to consider is accreditation. I was just reading some stuff about professional engineer licensing and found an interesting statistic:

There are about 320 universities with ABET-accredited engineering programs (29 in California) and about 250 colleges with ABET- accredited four-year programs in engineering technology, plus others offering two-year programs.

Source:
"AN INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING LICENSING IN CALIFORNIA AND OTHER STATES"
by California Society of Professional Engineers
November 5, 2001

(Yes...too lazy to look up proper citation format)

To me, those numbers seem a little low (not that I'm questioning it). Of the schools listed in California (it's a booklet oriented toward CA), several only had 1-3 accredited programs as of 1999. If your career plans call for an ABET accredited program, you might want to check if your schools have them.

[coreyk]

Here's a site that may aid you in finding the college that best suits you: http://www.collegeboard.com/csearch/

It's helpful when narrowing down your selections.