Mark gives prospective engineering majors some advice on choosing the right college.
Continue readingEducational Consultant on Georgia Tech: A Haven for the Sciences
Mark reviews Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia, sporting world-class recreational facilities and a plethora of science schools.
Continue readingUniversity of Colorado Boulder's Engineering Honors Program: Learning Beyond the Classroom
The University of Colorado Boulder has an honors program for students studying engineering. Watch this video to learn more about what the program offers and how to apply.
Continue readingLooking To Study Engineering in College? Check Out What Colorado Has to Offer You!
Interested in studying engineering in college? The state of Colorado offers some great choices for you. Listen to Nate Wright, Director of Marketing and Recruiting for the School of Engineering and Computer Science, from the University of Denver as he talks about your different options.
Continue readingWhat College Majors Offer the Best Job Opportunities?
Choosing a major can be tricky. Would it help if you knew what majors lead to the best job opportunities?
Continue readingExcellent Science and a Whole Lot More at Case Western Reserve University
For those seeking a medium sized college campus in an urban environment may find that Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, is a great option. Known for its programs in the sciences and engineering, Case has a beautiful urban campus–even though it is bisected by a very busy thoroughfare.
Case also is contiguous with some of the greatest artistic and cultural facilities in the world, including the Cleveland Institute of Music (where you can do a joint degree at Case), Severance Hall (home of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra), and the Institute of Art.
So if you are interested in high culture and want an urban environment, Case is hard to beat. CWRU is also trying hard to lure liberal arts students to the campus to round out its student body.
Lafayette College – Offering Engineering with a Liberal Arts and International Twist
Lafayette College provides a perfect partnership of engineering and liberal arts
Continue readingWant a PhD in Science or Engineering? Go to a Liberal Arts College!
The assumption that in order to prepare for a doctorate in science one must pursue an undergraduate degree from a major research university is false.
Continue readingGreat Information on Careers in Engineering
I recently came across this gold mine of information on careers in engineering. It has lots of cool stuff, including job listings, engineering news, and career advice.
Check out ENGINEERING.com | The Engineer’s Ultimate Resource Tool.
Mark Montgomery
Educational Consultant
Social Stereotypes and Campus Life–Carnegie Mellon University
College campuses have social stereotypes:
The geeky, intellectual campus.
The very conservative campus, both socially and politically
The earthy-crunchy campus where veganism is common
The laid-back, middle-of-the-road, “I-don’t-take-life-too-seriously” sort of place
The quirky campus full of off-beat individuals
Carnegie Mellon University has a reputation for attracting intellectually-intense math and science geeks who are studying computers, engineering, or likely both. Students have sallow complexions from too many late nights in the lab or the library, and they think a social life is sitting next to someone while in the computer lab working on their problem sets.
Actually, CMU is more diverse than that. It has a renown drama school and and excellent College of Fine Arts. So there are plenty of artsy-fartsy types, too.
Part of my job as a counselor is to visit colleges and investigate for myself the degree to which these stereotypes are true. And sometimes you just have to ask a student (or two or three or four) to get an idea of the sort of student who would be happy on that campus.
So I did. I talked to a student about the stereotypes, and here is what he had to say.
Mark Montgomery
College Consultant
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