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Originally Posted by cstreit
...Its definitely highly rated in the engineering community. outside of the big schools - our top 2 are Colorado School of Mines and RPI. Both offering decent merit scholarships for ours - I think we will have to visit both...
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Five Mines degrees in this house - none other from any of the big schools so I can't speak to that. That one in Golden at least has a very tight and busy network of alumni. Everyone seems to know someone. I'm pretty sure RPI is similar. CSM is also _very_ active in doing industry/gov't internships and exchanges, many international. It seems like that's almost how half the grads get their first jobs.
The good/bad on the small specialized schools is that (1) you are actually taught by a professor but (2) especially at the grad level they're probably some national president of something and you get a semester of advanced ferrous metallurgy crammed into three weeks of W-Fr 4p-8p classes - not that I'm bitter
RPI is solidly in the "big name in smaller schools" so that's a good grab!
But do visit. Golden >>> Albany. As a MI boy I nearly went to MTU in Houghton and wow am I glad I didn't, no matter how good a school it is up there in snowmobile-ville.