Has anyone heard of Rose-Hulman?

I go to Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, IN and it seems whenever I talk to my friends at home no one has ever heard of it. Rose is a great school, in fact it was rated as the number one undergraduate school for engineering for the past 7 years in a row. I really like Rose, it's a great school and a very challenging school; but it just annoys me that no one ever seems to have heard of it. I just wondered how many people here on answers have heard of my school and what your opinions of Rose are. Thanks for your responses.

Has anyone heard of Rose-Hulman?
I've heard of it. I used to recruit engineers out of undergraduate programs. In the engineering world, Rose Hulman has a good rep.
Reply:Well, your # 1 ranking is extremely misleading. No one in their right mind would rank Role-Hulman ahead of schools like MIT, CalTech, Berkeley, Cornell, etc. for engineering. It has ranked # 1 for schools without a master's or doctoral program.





It's not a bad school by any means, it's just not as good as the top engineering schools. It has an average SAT score of about 1300 (ACT of 29), nearly 200 points less than MIT or CalTech.





Prestige-wise, you already seem to know it is not a very well-known school, even to those "in the know." Most people that I know that applied to Rose-Hulman did so as a safety option. It is a safety school for people applying to the big name engineering programs (no offense!).
Reply:I've heard of it but only because a friend of mine from high school goes there. Everyone thought she was crazy for choosing that school since it was previously unheard of. My friend is really smart though, so I'd assume it must be a good school. I had no idea that it had such a good undergrad engineering program. You would think it should get more attention.
Reply:I live in Nottingham England and i ahve heard of your college.


http://www.rose-hulman.edu


There you go you not ignored or unheard of
Reply:Heard of it, applied, got accepted, went to Purdue
Reply:I have a friend who graduated from Rose-Hulman, but I hadn't heard of it when he told me - and he was offended too. It's a school that just isn't well-known outside of the midwest. It is, as you said, ranked #1 in all of the major engineering disciplines, but it's not well-known for that because that ranking is among engineering schools with no graduate program, so it's ranked separately from MIT et al.
Reply:Nope, never heard of it. But it is on wikipedia.org:





Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (abbreviated RHIT), formerly Rose Polytechnic Institute, is a private non-sectarian college. RHIT specializes in teaching engineering, mathematics, and science and is highly regarded for its undergraduate engineering program. Its 295 acre campus is located in Terre Haute, Indiana.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_hulman

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