Best Engineering school?

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Mapua is also one of my options. i hear DLSU is on the edge because of their latest machinery and equipment? and also some companies hire DLSU-graduate engineers only for their familiarity of the latest equipment. how about UP? ano masabi nyo sa UP?

im thinking i would take the entrance exam ng UP here this year kasi inooffer naman ata dito.. and kung pumasa (or if i make up my mind kung saang school) dun na ako mag 2nd year..

UP Engg grad ako (batch 86, tagal na).

What I know is that the UPCAT is offered only to graduating high school students. If you are already enrolled in a university/college then you will no longer be eligible to take the entrance test. The rule that will apply in your case will be the one that governs transferees.

AFAIK, the requirement to be able to transfer from another university to a UP quota course (engineering is one of those "quota" courses, as are comp sci, medicine, accounting, chemistry, etc.) is a grade average of 1.50 with no grade lower than 2.00. They may even raise that depending of from where you had been previously enrolled. For other courses (non-quota) the required average is 2.0 with no grade lower than 2.50. I may be wrong as those rules were when I was still a student there in the 1980s, but unless UP has lowered its standards (highly unlikely!) then I believe those rules will still be the same.

As for being the best, well... there were only 24 in my batch of mechanical engineer graduates (from an original class of 70). all of us passed the board on the first try. as for work later, our experience does not count. 1986 was a very bad year to graduate, magna cum laudes could not even find decent jobs during that time.