Best Engineering school?

[JJCarEnthusiast]

im already enrolled mechanical engineering in xavier university ateneo de cagayan. but for some reason i think there are better engineering schools in the philippines (kasi im also considering studying in manila) not that XU is bad at engineering courses, i just don't want to have regrets after i graduated, kesyo i should have studied here instead of there, or what. and also i want to be trained by the best in this field.

sabi ng mga taga dito sa amin Mindanao University of Science and Technology (MUST) is the best here in CDO, but still i would like to venture to another and place and study somewhere else where i could be exposed to the world and learn to live by my own. sabi nila UP daw ang the best, some say La salle. what's your take? i would like to ask your opinion about this.

[desert fox]

sa Mapua ayaw mo?

[tidus1203]

For me DLSU Manila... And not because I am an alumni of that school, its my honest opinion...

Mapua siguro yung panahon ng tatay ko!

[JJCarEnthusiast]

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..

[chua_riwap]

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[yebo]

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.

[yebo]

I only read up to page 2 when I replied earlier, you changed your mind na pala and will stay where you are due to your scholarship.

Why not still try to transfer to UP if your grades are good enough to transfer? There are several scholarships available there. Also if you get accepted to UP you are an instant scholar. If the income of both your parents are within the cut off (di ko sure but i heard last year it was 350k/year yata) you get full scholarship plus monthly allowance. inquire first to UP as the rules may have changed. but of course you must maintain a certain average and with no failing grades.

as for the scholarship, as you know it depends on the grades you get. you must be very very good to be able to graduate from UP engineering and have no failing grade. sabi ko nga in my 1st reply, there were originally 70 of us in our batch and only 24 graduated. the others were either pruned (not allowed to enter the college after their 1st 2 years), kicked out from the college or simply gave up and shifted to another college/course when they figured that they will not have the grade average to be given a diploma anyway (since one needs a GPA of 2.70 to get a diploma from the college of engineering). di kita tinatakot, i'm just giving it to you as it is.

so my advice is, study hard to get the grade average required, then see if you qualify for any scholarship. if you are able to do both then that is the time for you to decide if you really want to stay there or transfer to UP.


p.s., don't ask me if i was that good, I WAS NOT. i played mahjong, pusoy and billiards the whole day, cut classes, came to class drunk (especially during exams) and took all of 6 years to finish my degree.

[desert fox]

For me DLSU Manila... And not because I am an alumni of that school, its my honest opinion...

Mapua siguro yung panahon ng tatay ko!

nyahahaha....ang gagaling kaya ng mga inhinyero natin noon...kita mo MM, laging binabaha....

mga kalye natin, wala na halos provison para sa road widening....

di ba? :pope:

[Ry_Tower]

* TS; kung sa manila, Mapua, UP or DLSU na lang pagpilian mo. Tapos board exam na magkakaalaman yan.

kahit saang skul ka pa, basta board passer at may sipag, may mararating. ;)

[roninblade]

nyahahaha....ang gagaling kaya ng mga inhinyero natin noon...kita mo MM, laging binabaha....

mga kalye natin, wala na halos provison para sa road widening....

di ba? :pope:

i think politicians ang dahilan nyan hindi engineers

[CVT]

Siyempre, sa iskul na pinag-gradweytan ko....

Ang hirap kaya ng aral ng engineering doon,- pati bulsa mo lalos.... :hysterical:

13.3K:springsmile:

[normanenoza]

nyahahaha....ang gagaling kaya ng mga inhinyero natin noon...kita mo MM, laging binabaha....

mga kalye natin, wala na halos provison para sa road widening....

di ba? :pope:

eto sagot ko dyan bro. no doubt magagaling inhinyero naten. pero etong mga K***L na pulitiko ang mga sablay.

[desert fox]

eto sagot ko dyan bro. no doubt magagaling inhinyero naten. pero etong mga K***L na pulitiko ang mga sablay.

saka karamihan ng mahuhusay na inhinyero, nasa ibang bansa na...marami sa kanila nandito sa middle east...