This is the REAL trick. I’m an EE from Cal Poly. My metric would be first - what are the average hiring rate for grads in his major RIGHT NOW! How many of them are going without offers! Prestigious schools don’t matter that much in engineering AFTER the first job either.
My son is going out of state to the University of Oklahoma because of a National Merit Scholarship (OU has some of the best promotion to get those folks..) In any case, it is costing us about $8K/year so far.
So - your cost PLUS how he feels about the campus PLUS job prospects are the real metric. I know at least one Civil engineer who graduated near the top of her class last year and doesn’t have a job in her field. Engineering jobs are disappearing in this country right now. Engineering is being out-sourced just like manufacturing.
“My metric would be first - what are the average hiring rate for grads in his major RIGHT NOW!”
That's a great question. 97% of Maryland engineering grads either get offers in their fields upon graduation (most of the folks we've met had several firm offers before graduation) or go directly to their masters’ level work. My son met an attractive young graduating civil engineering major in February at one of their events, and she had several attractive offers in hand from which to choose.
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