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Honestly, there is no way you could get a Civil Masters without at least a Mathematics/Physics background. You would be better off getting a Civil Engineering Bachelors if anything.

Hey @saulecivil, I can at least tell you that from what I have heard, the faculty at Purdue is very competitive and rude to each other. That might make the environment unfriendly. That being said, I have no personal experience, just got that feedback from a few professors that worked/went to school there. But yes...idk what to do about Columbia vs. USCD at all.

Hello! Thanks for stopping in! I am trying to choose between Columbia Fu School of Engineering or USCD Jacobs School of Engineering and have no idea what to do. I am majoring in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in structures. On the one hand, USCD Jacobs is a prominent research institution and located in beautiful La Jolla. I have no funding to either but I believe USCD will be more likely to become funded in the future. USCD has a great research reputation and is design focused, so later I could get into a strong engineering firm in California. On the other hand, Columbia, from what I have heard, is more mathematically oriented and smaller. I would likely get to work in heavy theory that could be applied to multiple types of engineering but it might be harder to get a position at a structural design firm. I would likely stay in academia. It is located on the Upper East Side of NYC and has a great student to faculty ratio. It is also an Ivy and recognized worldwide as a prestigious institution no matter what the degree. Does anyone have any insight? Did you read something I posted that isn't true or you don't agree with? I would love some arguments to get me thinking.