How to choose the best school

1. How to choose the best school By: Jake Rodriguez

2. How to Decide • Can be strictly personal opinion on where you want to go. • Visiting a campus is the best way to decided whether you like it or not. • Doing research about possible your interested in. • U.S. News is a great website to look up information. Its both credible and reliable on its info. • Where would you want to live personally for the next 4 years.

3. Things to look at when deciding • If you want to go to any good university and have a great future, then there is a few things to pay attention for when deciding. - Tuition costs of the university. - Graduation rate. - Rank of the university (use U.S. News) - Rank of the school you want to attend within the university. - Difference in salaries one could make from graduating from one school, then compared to another.

4. UT vs. MIT • I personally love UT and have visited the campus and think its great. • Engineering graduation rate is barely over 50%, which isn’t very good • Ranked down around 28th in the nation as a university but ranked 11th for the engineering school. • Costs only about $10,000 a year • Has 9 areas to earn an engineering degree • Starting salary have about $70,000 for a mechanical engineer.

5. UT vs. MIT • MIT is ranked 1st in the nation as a university and also ranked 1st for its engineering school. • Costs about $32,000 a year. • 15 areas to earn an engineering degree • Graduation rate is about 95% • Almost guaranteed to have a job lined up before graduatio • Starting salary for a mechanical engineer is between $75,000-$85,000 a year.

6. video • http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2010/04/30/picking-your-university/