Hi all,
as some of you know I recently started attending Purdue, planning to major in EE.
I know a lot of Purdue's reputation from inside Indiana, basically we know it as that school that's really big and reputable and everybody goes to because everybody knows about it and employers will hire you if you're from there. But that's the thing. Everybody goes there, if someone gets in you're like "cool, whatever" and it's just a school like ball state or IU. My neighbor from back home is going here to major in law and scociety and be a cop. When I didn't get into MIT i was literally "darn, guess I'll just have to go to purdue "
Then I get here and realize there's people from india and china paying small fortunes to go here, and people paying out of state, and it makes me wonder...
How is Purdue's reputation across the world/country?
Especially those of you outside of the state of Indiana, what is the general consensus on the quality of purdue compared to places like MIT Harvard oxford or whatever local colleges you have?
I know it's number 4 in the world for engineering, but do people really think that highly of it everywhere?
as some of you know I recently started attending Purdue, planning to major in EE.
I know a lot of Purdue's reputation from inside Indiana, basically we know it as that school that's really big and reputable and everybody goes to because everybody knows about it and employers will hire you if you're from there. But that's the thing. Everybody goes there, if someone gets in you're like "cool, whatever" and it's just a school like ball state or IU. My neighbor from back home is going here to major in law and scociety and be a cop. When I didn't get into MIT i was literally "darn, guess I'll just have to go to purdue "
Then I get here and realize there's people from india and china paying small fortunes to go here, and people paying out of state, and it makes me wonder...
How is Purdue's reputation across the world/country?
Especially those of you outside of the state of Indiana, what is the general consensus on the quality of purdue compared to places like MIT Harvard oxford or whatever local colleges you have?
I know it's number 4 in the world for engineering, but do people really think that highly of it everywhere?