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Originally Posted by BonzoHansen
Follow up. We have narrowed things down to Pitt or Michigan. Michigan is a top 10 engineering school. Its also $100,000+ more. Pitt generally ranks 50-ish, whatever those rankings are worth.
We have visited Pitt, he liked it. There he would be in the Honors Program which adds some perks. We liked their co-op and internship opportunities as well. A little bit of word of mouth/personal experience stories have helped too. Like the other schools we visited, they have an array of labs and equipment, makers spaces, etc. We thought the infrastructure is there to succeed.
We have not visited Michigan, although we can still squeeze that in. FIL thinks we are short changing Ryan if we don't seriously consider Michigan. Not sure if he's kicking in for that lol. He's also an alum. But he's looking at public rankings and whatever info he can find to bolster his opinion.
Anyone have any experience or thoughts on either program? I am not against Michigan, just trying to gauge if its worth the stretch in costs.
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Fun to see you kick this back off.
Again, I am in the Oil and Gas side of things and I have worked with a LOT of Michigan grads. They have incredible Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering programs at UM and nearly all of them were incredibly sharp and fortunately self-motivated.
I can only assume their Mechanical and Automotive is also up to snuff. A major public school with lots of research/foundation money means lots of nice facilities to learn in.
Again, that is not everything though and if you are assisting with footing the bill, I could say with confidence that the differences in both BSME courses from Michigan and Pitt are CLOSE.
I will let Mark and the others from that area give a more relative and valid opinion though.