Good Engineering Colleges that have a LOT of running trails?

If you can't run at CU, you probably couldn't get in at Stanford or BYU either. UC San Diego would allow you to run with the San Diego Tri guys, and there are trails in the area, but UCSD is also notorious for NOT giving financial aid (they only did so for athletes because NCAA was about to kick them out).

The Boulder area actually has a bunch of high tech companies, including IBM and Lexmark. You might also think about Colorado State in Fort Collins, which has trails but the distance program isn't quite at the Wetmore level.

BTW, I coach in SoCal, so I'm not particularly promoting Boulder, although I do go there to race on the CU tracks (indoors and outdoors).

If ur goin for jersey don't go to rutgers for running go to rowan, their engineering program is one of the tops in the country and its a good running community with good places to run.

Probably not, I'm only a 4:10 1500, 9:00 3k, 16:00 5k runner

2nd Virginia Tech. Go Hokies.

Or you can head an hour down the coast to UCSB, even better!

"thanks for the responses guys.

I actually visited lehigh this past summer. I thought it was alright besides the industrialized parts. where are there trails though? Hilltop?"

I'm an engineer, though an older Lehigh dad, and a runner. And I can say the running at Lehigh is great. There are trails on South Mountain, which is mostly wooded. You can also run over or around the mountain to the athletic complex which is beautiful, or my favorite (being older and owner of tender knees), you can run along the Lehigh River. The trail along the river is an old canal tow path, gravel and perfectly flat. Great for long runs or interval work, and it goes on for miles in each direction...165 miles total.

CJ does exist wrote:

If ur goin for jersey don't go to rutgers for running go to rowan, their engineering program is one of the tops in the country and its a good running community with good places to run.

Come on man. I love SJ as much as the next guy, but a top engineering program Rowan is not. Rutgers is way better and it's maybe in the top 50 in the country.

Lafayette sucks btw

running engineer wrote:

I had good experiences with both engineering and running trails at Penn State and Cornell.

Yes. If you're looking for good trails and good engineering, Cornell (top-10 nationally in engineering) and Penn State (top-25) are probably your best bets in the East. It seems like you might have the grades/scores to give Cornell a shot--and I'd think you'd be a lock at PSU, based on the academic info you gave us.

As far as running: if 4:10m and 9:00m are your marks as of your next-to-last year of high school, then with normal progress I'd think you'd have an excellent shot at making the Cornell team--if you're thinking of potentially competing at the college level. Maybe Penn State's, too--or maybe not, I don't know that much about their program.

In either case, neither Ithaca nor State College really qualifies as a "city" IMHO. State College, PA, has about twice the population of Ithaca, NY (~40k vs. ~20k), but neither is a metropolis. Plenty of good trails at both, and Ithaca (at least--I've done more running there than at State College) also has a lot of "quiet" roads.

UC San Diego.

The campus has several dirt trails sprouting into small canyon/hillsides, plus beach trails, not to mention campus is a 15 min walk, downhill, to the beach. The rest of SD offers a plethora of running trails, as well as nearby Mt Palomar where Craig Mottram use to train annually when he was in sub 13 shape. Needless to say, UCSD is as broad and deep in engineering as most schools you will find. Computer, Biological, Mech/Aero, Civil, and a variety of Other engineering pursuits and resources. It's D2, but SD is a prime spot, and there is decent/good competition at the ccca champ and d2 regionals and nationals levels (Chico, Adams state, western, etc).

Also, the fine ladies in San Diego are finer than any others in the nation. Weather's great too.

Make sure you find out how good each discipline of engineering is within the school.

That being said you can't go wrong with Carnegie Mellon. All of their engineering programs are either top 10 or near top 10. Based on your PR's you would be a solid contributor to their program as well.

they are however city-ish. 5 miles from downtown pittsburgh but surrounded by suburbs and trails.

I'm not sure if I mentioned it in other posts but I was thinking about biomedical/bioengineering

imageek wrote:

I'm not sure if I mentioned it in other posts but I was thinking about biomedical/bioengineering

Go for RPI. It is in upstate NY and there are many amazing trails to run on. I actually went there for biomed. It has one of the top biomed programs around. Feel free to ask me any questions or if you have any concerns.

imageek wrote:

Probably not, I'm only a 4:10 1500, 9:00 3k, 16:00 5k runner

With these times, you might be able to run for Montana State University - Bozeman Montana. Sure it's a little cold, but there are tons of trails and they have a engineering programs. I was out of eligibility when I got my civil engineering degree there, but still ran with a few guys on the team, and I had similar times as you and I beet a few of their XC guys as an unattached runner at their invitational meet.

Freelove wrote:

CJ does exist wrote:

If ur goin for jersey don't go to rutgers for running go to rowan, their engineering program is one of the tops in the country and its a good running community with good places to run.

Come on man. I love SJ as much as the next guy, but a top engineering program Rowan is not. Rutgers is way better and it's maybe in the top 50 in the country.

I guess it depends on what you believe is important, but id say they are pretty comparable

hmmmm wrote:

2nd Virginia Tech. Go Hokies.

3rd

Also 2nd to Penn State

Quick pull from top 50 US News Engineering Program Ranking with bigger city and west coast schools eliminated:

Illinois

Texas

Michigan

Cornell

Purdue

Texas A&M

Wisconsin

Princeton

Maryland

Virgina Tech

Penn State

Ohio State

Florida

Duke

NC State

Yale

Colorado

Virginia

Rochester

Lehigh

Iowa State

Delaware

Washington University

Dartmouth

Richy rich wrote:

imageek wrote:

I'm not sure if I mentioned it in other posts but I was thinking about biomedical/bioengineering

Go for RPI. It is in upstate NY and there are many amazing trails to run on. I actually went there for biomed. It has one of the top biomed programs around. Feel free to ask me any questions or if you have any concerns.

Sorry if this makes me sound like a jerk, but I heard the college experience at RPI is miserable, partly due to the fact that it's about 70% males.

Sorry if this makes me sound like a jerk, but I heard the college experience at RPI is miserable, partly due to the fact that it's about 70% males.[/quote]

To be honest, that was the reason I did not want to go to RPI. But you would be surprised. The parties there are exceptional and this is coming from someone who has partied at big state schools (UConn, Rutgers..) There is an all girls school down the street. They will make up for the lack of girls. Although the girls are not top quality, the parties are great.

Basically, RPI has great parties but it is not the number of girls that is the problem, it is the looks of them. You can manage to get by though. With so many fraternities, there is always a good party on weekends.