“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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That is GOOD information - what can Harvard say? Admittedly Harvard is one of the best known schools in the country - but really not for Engineering! They have this neighbor down the road called MIT that sort of gets in the way ;-)
I’ve met a few Harvard grads in my 30 years - but mostly they were from the Computer Science department which was decent 30 years ago - and apparently is still attracting decent folks (Bill Gates and whats-his-name from facebook..) though Harvard DOES seem to have a problem with it’s best and brightest actually bothering to graduate (Couldn’t resist saying that....)
They really don’t have a rep on the West Cost in Silicon Valley for EE or ME. Just food for thought. Again though, the prestige of the University really doesn’t matter that much in an Engineering career. Your resume is how get judged AFTER that first job.