Inquiry about Illinois Institute of Technology

[RAID25]

Hello Everybody;

I got admission for Master of Chemical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology in Fall 2014.

I have the following inquiries and am sure you will help me;

1- How is the quality of teaching at iit?

2- How is the reputation of the school?

And any other advice that you may have about iit.

thanks in advance.

[threnagyn]

Hello Everybody;

I got admission for Master of Chemical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology in Fall 2014.

I have the following inquiries and am sure you will help me;

1- How is the quality of teaching at iit?

2- How is the reputation of the school?

And any other advice that you may have about iit.

thanks in advance.

In between my BS and PhD, I took a few classes at Illinois Institute of Technology.

 

1. Its hard to give you a good answer since I only took 2 classes, but I felt like they were done well and challenging (in a good way). The other students in the class are good at asking questions and good discussions result from this. I felt that my peers were thoroughly engaged with the lecture, as was I. Im saying this as someone who is from a top 10 engineering school (UIUC) and is getting a PhD at a top 10 engineering school (GaTech).

 

2. The reputation isn't bad. Its ~107th for schools overall and higher for engineering. Depending on major, it may be in the top 50. It definitely isn't know for research, so I would do a Masters, but not a PhD. Its a good school if you want to stay in Chicago and get a job in Chicago, but engineering firms from other cities probably won't have heard of it. You will also be competing for jobs with UIUC kids (which is much more prestigious). Its also on the expensive side (because its private). Finally, the area around there isn't that great. A lot of your peers are going to be rich foreign kids that wanted to do school in the USA around Chicago and couldn't get into UIUC.

 

One other thing, there is another bullcrap school in the area called ITT Technical institute. This is one of those private schools with a TON of commercials. 90% of people you talk to about IIT will confuse it with ITT Tech. I had like 4-5 people say, 'Oh, is that really a good school? They have all the commercials..." and I had to correct them and this was from just attending one semester and two classes.

 

 

UIUC is hard to get into, but what about attending GaTech in Atlanta? Its moderately easy to get into, its cheap, and its a fantastic school. Your job prospects would be much higher.

Edited March 25, 2014 by threnagyn