Engineering Schools with Baseball

I assume he is a 2017. Rose-hulman (Indiana I believe) is one of the country's premier engineering schools. Ratio of men/women skewed a bit.  If he wants a path which ends in a great job - though the school is in the northeast - the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (low end D3) in King's Point could be an option (or, even the other service academies [though those are D1)). Many D3s have 3-2 engineering programs which may or may not interest him.

Are you sure he isn't D1? His velo could be fine - especially if there appears more physical development may be coming.  If D1 is an option, Dartmouth, Cornell, Princeton produce baseball players who are also engineers (it's hard to do, but I know kids who graduated/will shortly graduate with engineering degrees).  The Patriot League - Bucknell for example - is also a possibility. His scores are good enough to pass admissions as a recruited player - and the Ivyies and Patriot leagues - haven't come close to finish recruiting for 2017s.

If he is a 2016, aren't you limited to the schools to which he applied? If so, which schools have offered him admission?

DKRAUS,

As you are discovering, there is no easy button when it comes to baseball and engineering.....in my experience there will be trade offs and/or compromises.  It sounds to me like you've discovered this.  

First, in our experience there were a lot more options in the Northeast however those are mostly private schools.  The southern schools that had engineering were mostly large state schools and therefore D1 schools.  So when you say south exactly what do you mean?  Southeast, southwest?  You've mentioned your son's requirements for baseball, what about engineering requirements?  Are you looking for a particular field of engineering or a nationally top ranked engineering program?  I'd strongly encourage you to look at engineering schools and then look to see if they have a baseball team....this will simplify your search.

Good luck and let me know if I can help in any way!

In D3, Washington and Lee, Trinity (Tx) are the ones that come to mind that have engineering. Many others in D3 have 3/2 or 4/1 programs. 

Rose-Hulman, While not really south is located in Terre Haute Indiana. So I would not consider it north east, more mid west. If you can live with Ohio weather there is also Ohio Northern. Their baseball team is full of Engineering Majors. If you want warm weather check out Harvey Mudd College. It is one of the Claremont schools and combines with other colleges to form the Claremont - Mudd - Scripps baseball team. 

https://www.hmc.edu/

http://www.cmsathletics.org/sports/bsb/index

And if your son is truly elite when it comes to Academics there is Cal Tech. Although historically their sports programs do not do well. But hey who goes to Cal Tech to win in sports. 

I thought Emory had one but they are a 3-2. 

This is an old thhread and It is from a Lacrosse site but it may give some in sight.

http://network.laxpower.com/la...;t=40099&start=0

Here is an old thread from College Confidential.

http://network.laxpower.com/la...;t=40099&start=0

Good Luck in your search. 

I sent you a PM DKraus, look at the upper right hand of your screen and click on your name and look for "Private Messages".

How about D2?  UCSD - high academic, top engineering school, D2 baseball.

Thanks for all the input.  CalTech had contacted him, he was concerned about the "whole" college experience as their student body was only 1000 kids.  He is a 2016 grad but i thought that if there was a school that wanted him he could get in despite not applying (i guess i might be wrong here).  We had talked to RoseHulman but believe it or not we were too late - they had capped admissions.  He has been accepted to Texas A&M (obviously just academics) but just seeing if we've missed something.  It may all be too late at this stage.

Had not thought about UCSD, thanks

What about Harvey Mudd?  Small school, but not really as it's part of one community with the other Claremont colleges. I believe we have a user whose son is headed there soon, so he may chime in.

Some good feedback already.  There are a lot of options, from the more technically oriented schools (e.g., RPI, Rose Hulman, CalTech, Florida Institute of Technology, et.al.) to colleges with more limited engineering offerings (e.g., Trinity TX, Trinity CT, Lafayette, et.al.). 

As a former electrical engineering major and a hiring manager of thousands of engineers over time, I'll add that computer science can be an awesome path too, and one that is more widely available including at many liberal arts colleges.

As Fenway notes, there are tradeoffs.  Not a ton of engineering majors on baseball rosters.

Your son is a 2016 like mine. HM is not an option at this point. My son was verbaled there contingent upon getting through admissions. He ended up not getting admitted even when he was on the coaches supported list. UCSD is also done with their recruiting except for maybe a stud pitcher. They too have already sent out their admissions. My son like yours will be majoring in engineering. He was accepted into some very good schools UCLA, UCSD as well as AF Academy. Wherever he goes he will attempt to walk on. He has decided on the academy and has started his campaign of trying to get the attention of the Head coach.  I've got to believe that with those types of scores your son has already applied to many schools and have been accepted to some of them? It seems a little late to be asking these questions.  

Standballdad makes a good point. It's late!  BTW my eldest is an engineering student at UCSB and he has friends who play club baseball at both his school and Cal Poly and love it.  That's another way to stay in the game.

You pretty much have everyone that was on my son's list. UCSD is likely not an option due to cost and lack of scholarship $$ since you are out of state. It looks like you are from San Antonio and likely Trinity is too close to home but they have an amazing new engineering facility, which you are probably aware of. If my son got into Cal Tech I would highly encourage him to go there, that is a life changing school. It is possible to get into Mudd by going to Claremont and keeping a min 3.0 in their eng management program and then finish at Mudd. It is not too late if you had been in contact with schools and baseball programs, but out of the blue it is too late IMO.

Good Luck! 

My son is a 2017, but otherwise sounds like an almost identical situation for him lies ahead.  Will graduate as 17 year old, so he is at a bit of a disadvantage physically.  Almost 6' tall but struggles to stay above 170.  He is positive he wants to do mechanical engineering, so we've gone through the same search for engineering schools that have baseball programs that are not part of the elite D1s, and then expanded to D2 (where we have found few matches beyond UC-San Diego) and D3.

One site I found helpful in building the list is this one:

http://best-engineering-colleges.com/

I am not sure how accurate their rankings are, but what is really nice is that you can sort for engineering schools by state and see how they are ranked by state and within the region and nationally.  As you scroll down the lists, once you see the engineering programs number dwindling, then you know they do not really specialize with engineering.

Then you can compare engineering schools with the various lists out there for baseball programs.  This one has a good list of all D1 programs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._I_baseball_programs

Good luck with the search, and come back to this forum to let us know where he ends up.  You are not alone in facing these issues so it helps the rest of us to learn from others experience.

I had suspected it was late at this point, just thought i'd throw it out there for any last ideas.  He will likely try walking on or playing club ball.  His academics are top priority.

standballdad posted:

Your son is a 2016 like mine. HM is not an option at this point. My son was verbaled there contingent upon getting through admissions. He ended up not getting admitted even when he was on the coaches supported list. UCSD is also done with their recruiting except for maybe a stud pitcher. They too have already sent out their admissions. My son like yours will be majoring in engineering. He was accepted into some very good schools UCLA, UCSD as well as AF Academy. Wherever he goes he will attempt to walk on. He has decided on the academy and has started his campaign of trying to get the attention of the Head coach.  I've got to believe that with those types of scores your son has already applied to many schools and have been accepted to some of them? It seems a little late to be asking these questions.  

Good stuff! (The Right Stuff)

It's really late for acceptance to college. At this point any interested D3 would tell your son, sure walk on. It's a crap shoot. The coach has already recruited the six to eight studs he was looking for.

You might want to consider club baseball at Texas A&M. Club teams don't travel as far as varsity programs. Homework and grades is more of a priority than baseball. At a school like Texas A&M the team might be a bunch of players who tried to walk on or washed out of the program and didn't transfer. In other words, reasonably talented.

Just an update on UCSD potentially moving to D1:

http://www.sandiegouniontribun...division-one-change/

Trine in Angola, Indiana, is another engineering D3. It's about 30 minutes from Fort Wayne, 1 hour Toledo and 1 1/2 hours from Detroit. A lot of guys on the baseball team are studying either Engineering or Business.

Another couple thoughts as you are considering southern D3 engineering schools:

1) You can use this tool to generate your list.  http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/  I just used it based on the information you provided, and as expected it is slim plickings.  You may want to expand your geography beyond the south which is exactly what my son did a bunch of years ago.  He grew up in Virginia but ended up going to school in the northeast.

2) You'll want to verify the college's engineering discipline is ABET certified.  As a matter of fact, you can go to the ABET site and search by state which schools or disciplines are ABET certified.

Good luck!  I have a special place in my heart for engineering athletes.

Thanks for all the input has been very helpful his select coach wants him to play college ball but also knows finding the right mix w academics is important and he continues to get looks on field level; at this point its really in gods hands 

dkraus posted:

Son is a senior and a lot of looks from liberal arts schools but he is studying engineering.  Excellent grades (2160 SAT) great bat, good corner and mid 80 right pitching.  Has been very difficult to find the right match between academics and baseball.  He is not D1 talent.  Also, trying to stay somewhat south because he had options in Boston but that was not of interest.

Are there any schools we may have missed.  With his grades he is not going Junior College and want a good academic school.  He is a young senior (17), 6'2" and 190 lbs so he can play but the mix is important

dkraus posted:

Son is a senior and a lot of looks from liberal arts schools but he is studying engineering.  Excellent grades (2160 SAT) great bat, good corner and mid 80 right pitching.  Has been very difficult to find the right match between academics and baseball.  He is not D1 talent.  Also, trying to stay somewhat south because he had options in Boston but that was not of interest.

Are there any schools we may have missed.  With his grades he is not going Junior College and want a good academic school.  He is a young senior (17), 6'2" and 190 lbs so he can play but the mix is important.

I almost thought you were talking about my son for a minute, right down to the age, size, height 6'3", SAT etc.  I would take a look at NYU, Lehigh, RPI, and WPI. All of these schools have great engineering departments and would fit the academic profile for your son. Good luck.

Enjoying the Ride posted:

Just an update on UCSD potentially moving to D1:

http://www.sandiegouniontribun...division-one-change/

They definitely ought to do it, as it would be enhance the school's national profile.  But asking a notoriously nerdy, academics-only student body to pony up another $495 fee per year to finance the change, this on top of an already rapidly climbing cost of attendance?  

Not.  Going. To. Happen.

"In 2011, the university funded a $28,000 study on the feasibility of moving to Division I."

Wth?

JCG posted:

Enjoying the Ride posted:

Just an update on UCSD potentially moving to D1:

http://www.sandiegouniontribun...division-one-change/

They definitely ought to do it, as it would be enhance the school's national profile.  But asking a notoriously nerdy, academics-only student body to pony up another $495 fee per year to finance the change, this on top of an already rapidly climbing cost of attendance?  

Not.  Going. To. Happen.

Do you happen to know how many scholarships they currently fund?

Swarthmore has a 4 year engineering degree with a strong emphasis on software.  Lehigh would be a good baseball fit at mid-80's.  Why no D1 interest at mid-80's?

MidAtlanticDad posted:

JCG posted:

Enjoying the Ride posted:

Just an update on UCSD potentially moving to D1:

http://www.sandiegouniontribun...division-one-change/

They definitely ought to do it, as it would be enhance the school's national profile.  But asking a notoriously nerdy, academics-only student body to pony up another $495 fee per year to finance the change, this on top of an already rapidly climbing cost of attendance?  

Not.  Going. To. Happen.

Do you happen to know how many scholarships they currently fund?

I do not.   But it's a  tough school to get into, and in-state tuition is less insane than privates, so I'm sure many families would be happy with a minimal offer. 

leftyshortstop posted:

Swarthmore has a 4 year engineering degree with a strong emphasis on software.  Lehigh would be a good baseball fit at mid-80's.  Why no D1 interest at mid-80's?

I'd think that Bucknell and Lafayette would be worth a try too, but the kid's a 2016, so....

Leftyshortstop - i am by no means an expert at this, we had always simply hoped he would play highschool ball and gradually realized he's pretty good.  In my experience the D1s with good engineering programs won't look at a pitcher unless he's touching 90 as a righty.  Lefties is another story.  The funny thing is we've always thought of him as a pitcher but his bat is incredible;  3 for 5 last night, a home run and 5 rbis with exit velocity of low 90's.  Swarthmore had contacted him earlier this year and the only reason he did not pursue was location.  Another liberal arts school contacted his select coach yesterday but i have a feeling at this point he will go to Texas A&M and try a walk on;  if no luck there go to club ball at A&M.

I truly appreciate all the advice from this forum.  Has been very helpful and does make you realize there are many going through similar issues - all GOOD issues to be addressing.  

dkraus posted:

Son is a senior and a lot of looks from liberal arts schools but he is studying engineering.  Excellent grades (2160 SAT) great bat, good corner and mid 80 right pitching.  Has been very difficult to find the right match between academics and baseball.  He is not D1 talent.  Also, trying to stay somewhat south because he had options in Boston but that was not of interest.

Are there any schools we may have missed.  With his grades he is not going Junior College and want a good academic school.  He is a young senior (17), 6'2" and 190 lbs so he can play but the mix is important.

Sounds like my son's long lost twin brother and I feel your pain. If you find any such school taking applications after the deadlines have passed, please let me know. Same boat.

leftyshortstop posted:

Swarthmore has a 4 year engineering degree with a strong emphasis on software.  Lehigh would be a good baseball fit at mid-80's.  Why no D1 interest at mid-80's?

Swarthmore app deadline passed...

I'll second bishopleftysdad with regard to Ohio Northern.  Great engineering school and good baseball program.  HC has pitched in the MLB world series.  It's definitely not a southern school, so the crappy spring weather may take some getting used to but could be a fit for your son.

Reviving the thread for yet more engineering/baseball questions... 

I'm trying to provide guidance for a player interested in engineering (of which I know far too little).  He is a 2017 here in California, not getting D1 interest but will be a solid player at another level.  He is getting JC interest. 

My question is this... is JC even a feasible option for an engineering major that doesn't want to spend unnecessary years in college?

To answer this question, I think we'd have to know more specifically what type of Engineering he is interested in (Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Computer, Industrial, the list goes on an on ...).  Most larger schools have good programs in each of these, but some smaller schools may have very good programs in one or more as well.

cabbagedad posted:

Reviving the thread for yet more engineering/baseball questions... 

I'm trying to provide guidance for a player interested in engineering (of which I know far too little).  He is a 2017 here in California, not getting D1 interest but will be a solid player at another level.  He is getting JC interest. 

My question is this... is JC even a feasible option for an engineering major that doesn't want to spend unnecessary years in college?

IMHO, the simple answer is YES . . . particularly in California for California schools.  For example, it's not unusual for a good 2 yr. JC student getting into Cal Poly. 

cabbagedad posted:

I'm trying to provide guidance for a player interested in engineering (of which I know far too little).  He is a 2017 here in California, not getting D1 interest but will be a solid player at another level.  He is getting JC interest. 

Has he applied to UCSD (high level D2)?  Do you think he could play at that level?

cabbagedad posted:

Reviving the thread for yet more engineering/baseball questions... 

I'm trying to provide guidance for a player interested in engineering (of which I know far too little).  He is a 2017 here in California, not getting D1 interest but will be a solid player at another level.  He is getting JC interest. 

My question is this... is JC even a feasible option for an engineering major that doesn't want to spend unnecessary years in college?

Yes.  I've seen a number of kids go to our local community college and then transfer to the University of Illinois to get the their engineering degrees.   The counselors are dialed into which classes are transferable.  The student-athlete really has to hit the ground running with the grades.  The four year engineering schools have more respect for certain JC's than others, you can talk to their admissions people as well.  

Can be done, and it will save a lot of money.

I reviewed this thread quickly, so I might have missed it but I saw no mention of University of Texas at Dallas.  They are a top ranked engineering school & play really good D3 baseball.  It's worth a look.

I am surprised I haven't commented on this yet, but I can offer insight into the JC to Engineering thing. 

Calculus transfers, Chemistry Transfers, English transfers, Physics transfers, along with other classes.  When you graduate from the four-year institution after transferring from the JC, all that matters is what it says on your final degree.  You do well in the above noted classes and other ones you need to at the JUCO, you'll have no problem getting into just about any Engineering school in America.