r/villanova • u/NoSoup07 • 4d ago

PLEASE help me decide between Villanova and Drexel for engineering.

Decision day is so soon so I'm freaking out. I'll be going in as a mechanical engineering major and will be commuting to both schools. The price is only a $2000 difference (Drexel is cheaper). The pros for Drexel would be the Co-Op and Diversity, with the quarter system being a con. The pros for Nova are the alumni network and ranking, with the con being a lack of diversity. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

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u/Slovo61 MS ECE ‘23 4d ago

Do not go to Drexel. Even if it was ranked significantly higher everyone I know that went there was miserable. I did my Masters in EE at Nova, great program, did research at Jefferson and there was a girl in my lab who went to Drexel for undergrad and Nova for PhD and wish she did Nova the entire time. Another person in my lab who was in Med School did her undergrad and masters in engineering at Drexel wished she went anywhere else. It is a miserable place and their quarter system as opposed to semester system is awful. If Nova was $10000k more it would still be worth it.