Top 5 Ridiculously Underrated Colleges in America

[@kevinkasp]

Well done. I've been a strong proponent of Colorado School of Mines for a very long time.

[@shakicommissariat3698]

Colorado School of Mines is an absolutely awesome university. My son graduated from Mines (Civil Engineering) and had numerous job offers before graduating. The city of Golden is heaven on earth. Couldn't agree with you more, Mr. CollegeMeister.

[@JohnVKaravitis]

5. Santa Clara University 4. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 3. Kettering University 2. Stevens Institute of Technology 1. Colorado School of Mines

[@anthonykent00]

This list is great, but you need to watch the video or read the article to get the full value. Just saying, as someone who just read the article.

[@CharlesFosterMalloy]

Very good list. Rose Hulman is the best, followed by Olin College of Engineering and Harvey Mudd, for engineering schools. Also: Case Western Reserve and Rensselaer. In this same vein, but less engineering dedicated, is Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Also: Washington & Lee in Virginia. A very affordable public school that is a hidden gem for engineering and stems is: Louisiana Tech. See also: Texas Tech, stepbrother to Rice, UT-Austin & Texas A&M.

[@CharlesFosterMalloy]

All these schools listed in this video do indeed rank extremely highly where it matters most: first year out incomes…

[@CharlesFosterMalloy]

Another hidden gem: Tulsa.

[@francestan70]

Drexel should be on the list too, co-op program and right next to UPenn.

[@tasnimislam9277]

The abysmal aid ruins how great it is

[@CharlesFosterMalloy]

My Son almost picked Rose Hulman, but decided not to major in Engineering, thus he picked Trinity U. for Finance over Rose Hulman. They both offered equivalent scholarships. Both are GREAT schools.

[@CharlesFosterMalloy]

Santa Clara IS a good college, and is also good for Finance - on par with SMU, Fordham, GWU, UT-Austin; below: UPenn, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Wake Forest, U. of IL-Urbana, Boston College, Villanova, Lehigh - all for Finance. Also check out Bentley, Babson, James Madison, Utah, Penn St, Trinity U. and several more within the Top30 for Finance based on the only thing that matters - first year out incomes per tax records reported by the US DoE college scorecard.

[@CharlesFosterMalloy]

Kettering also made my list for my Son. General Motors U. Very interesting school. Hidden gem.

[@AndrewByrnes-z5m]

The best two private well-resourced research institutions in California are USC and Santa Clara University? Stanford might have something to say about that.

[@CollegeMeister]

Ha! Thanks for catching that.

[@Oooooo-xi2mx]

I think Cal Tech also has huge government funding for the JPL research.

[@akacad]

Good list. Might want to fix the audio output as it is quite low.

[@ec5318]

Can you pls comment on Pepperdine U in Malibu CA? We didn’t go for Santa Clara U bc it wasn’t super well known for the major that my son wants which is biology. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you.

[@CollegeMeister]

I won't be able to do another in-depth Pepperdine video this cycle, but I hope you checked out the Pepperdine supplemental essay video I shared last month: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIPbfnx6hNl2h7M Good luck.

[@stochasticdifferentialeq.1393]

There are three private semi prestige colleges in California besides the top three global giants (Cal Tech, USC and Stanford) and those are: 1 - Loyola Marymount University 2- Chapman University 3 - Santa Clara All those three have good pharmacy schools. I have taught in two of three universities. 😊

[@jasonrichardson0369]

The current General Motors CEO Mary Bara is a Kettering alum. Distinguished company.

[@anita34d]

My son strongly considered Santa Clara University as an option this year. He was hoping to run for their XC and track teams as well. However, after much research, via their website, reading reviews, and checking out vlogs he decided against it. He felt that they were too strongly geared towards social justice. He said that he wants to focus on academic offerings and leave the moral teachings to his choosing.

[@emox6400]

It’s one of the reasons my son chose SCU! We need more ethical leaders and can’t wait for my son to be a business owner who cares about more than just the bottom line!

[@brianguevara3376]

@@emox6400That’s wonderful. There’s a place for everyone.

[@WishAtElevenEleven]

Interesting. I went there and I don’t remember there being anything about social justice at all. I graduated in 2012 though, maybe things have changed since then.

[@TheWholeDamnShow007]

@@WishAtElevenElevenyeah that was like 20 years ago in the internet world

[@WishAtElevenEleven]

@@TheWholeDamnShow007totally fair, but it’s not that long in the world of how long the university has been around and how fast things change at universities

[@feilisong24]

My son is accepted by both SIT CS and SCU EE 😂

[@TheLauren1113]

Wish this wasn’t so stem focused. Lots of smart kids aren’t stem kids. 😢 You can major in anything and go to law school for example so I don’t understand the obsession with STEM.

[@bwc2000]

Stem major teaches you intense analytical skills that can be applied anywhere. Also they can go into any grad school major, not just law if they change their minds. A liberal arts major cannot go into engineering grad. Also in case grad school doesn't work out, they can just get a job with the hands on skills that acquired in stem. I have known so many liberal arts major who end up going back to school for nursing and etc whereas all stem never did except for MBA or law or medical. No offense to liberal majors but that's society.

[@jaxjaxjax]

​@@bwc2000I teach at a liberal arts school and your generalization is very wrong. We have a very good success rate of our majors going to law school, grad school, and med school, but more importantly, many of them are career-ready and walk into positions on graduation. We have some programs that have 100% job placement rates. Liberal arts, when done correctly, works. Just many schools claim to be liberal arts when really they are not. If a student wants to go into liberal arts, they need to find a school that truly is a liberal arts school.

[@bwc2000]

@@jaxjaxjax thanks for the insight. Yes they can go into law med or MBA if that is what they intend to do because, those advanced degree will accept any undergraduate major. But it will be extremely hard for liberal arts majors to go into engineering or math or technical graduate schools if they suddenly desire to do so since they do not have the foundation of stem to build upon which takes years. So that's what I'm talking about in terms of limiting their options. If you are in stem, you can go into almost any grad field. I'm talking about statistically too and i know some liberal arts major who went on to be successful with an undergrad...but a caveat is that they are mostly graduated from top tier or ivy league schools as they recruit by IB and consulting firms.

[@harrychu650]

Statistically, 4 out of 10 college freshman do not return for their sophomore year. They fail out, get weeded out or just hate it. Just go to community college and apply to a four year for your sophomore year when Universities are looking to fill the class gaps left by the students who dropped out or failed out. 😮 Here is what no one wants to tell the young people, Freshmen year usually sucks and 9 out of 10 students won't be friends with their roommate. 😂 This is best path especially if your student has no major or career path in mind.

[@billwood5540]

My family moved coast to coast in the middle of the college application process, making college selection impossible. Anyway, I had good but not great SAT, and I goofed around too much in HS giving me a 3.5 gpa, so wasn't going to get into top engineering schools. I went to a highly accredited JC for a year, took 10 classes, got 10 A's, and was accepted to every top engineering school I applied to for my sophomore year. I always figured it was not simply because of the A's I got at the JC, it was more about demonstrating I was a motivated and committed college student... AND they had a bunch of openings from drop outs.

[@feliciadewanaga5354]

​@@billwood5540 Which JC did you go to?

[@WishAtElevenEleven]

Wow, that’s crazy! That’s definitely not how it was at Santa Clara university where I went. Something like 75% of freshman graduate in 4 years and then a small percentage more graduate in 5 years. I didn’t know a single person who didn’t graduate.

[@harrychu650]

@@WishAtElevenEleven in aggregate, approximately 60% of freshman return for sophomore year. Individual universities can have higher or lower first year retention rate. At Santa Clara, did you also find that the vast majority of Freshman became close friends with their roommates also?

[@WishAtElevenEleven]

@@harrychu650out of the people I knew, no. But I’m not the best person to ask. I had very few friends.

[@bertler01]

Engineering students shouldn't overlook Olin College of Engineering in Neeham, MA . Employers certainly don't overlook it.

[@gheller2261]

4 of 5 schools are engineering schools for students who may not he able to get into the most selective engineering schools. Not very helpful to 95% of students applying to college. We need to cool it with this STEM obsession.

[@kevinkasp]

I strongly disagree. We need to increase our "obsession" with STEM. It's not an obsession in the first place. The world and our society has a huge deficit in the number of qualified STEM graduates. We need to decrease the number of humanities and social science majors by 90%.

[@gmh471]

@@kevinkasp You're right. We just need a bunch of scientific robots. Why should anyone learn how to think, write, communicate, and have socials skills? Why should anyone think that art has any value? My mistake.

[@kevinkasp]

@@gmh471 It’s ridiculous to think that engineers, scientists, software developers, and statisticians don’t know how to think or communicate, or that the creations invented by engineers aren’t just as, if not more creative than 99% of what “artists” create. And it’s silly to imply that even more than a tiny percentage of graduates in majors such as gender studies or criminal justice or sociology actually know how to think critically or logically, or possess even half the thinking abilities of engineering graduates. Most of them are just plain stupid, and forty years ago wouldn’t have even been able to get into college. I know professional artists - painters and musicians. They actually believe the world owes it to them to pay them to “create” their “visions.” Such rubbish. EVERYONE has their own artistic or intellectual ideas they wish they could pursue full time. Tell me, was there not great art or writing or music 400 years ago or 300 or 200 years ago when nobody went to college to become a writer, poet, musician, sculptor, or painter?

[@kevinkasp]

@@gmh471 Indeed your mistake. Think about the smartest 40 kids in your high school graduating class. Do you not see the contradiction in believing that although they are highly intelligent and smart enough to master intellectually difficult fields they somehow don’t know how to “think,” and are also not smart enough to learn to communicate? And simultaneously the kids graduating in the bottom third of your class are the ones to lead the way with their superior thinking and communication abilities? And tell me, how is it the greatest composers, painters, sculptors, poets and writers never went to college?

[@gmh471]

@@kevinkasp Oh for crying out loud. Take a pill why don't ya.

[@marciewebster2490]

uhhhh Stanford??

[@howled0]

Stanford is NOT underrated 💀

[@gheller2261]

Did you not read the tagline or listen to the video?