Instead of focusing on engineering schools, if NYC wants to attract engineers it should focus on its elementary, middle and high schools. Engineers value education. Engineers usually do not make enough to afford fancy NYC private schools, and most engineers are not going to send their kids to NYC's public schools. So even if NYC succeeds in attracting young engineers, it will lose many of them as they start to raise families and leave looking for better public schools for their kids.
NYC has some of the best public schools in the world. Bronx Science has had more graduates who won Nobel prizes (6) than most countries: http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_... These public schools require competitive entry and are open to anyone in NYC who qualifies.
Granted, NYC also has some of the worst public schools in the world, too.
The problem is that people starting to raise families usually move out of NYC and into NJ suburbs with much better private and public schools (and a bigger, better house).
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Instead of focusing on engineering schools, if NYC wants to attract engineers it should focus on its elementary, middle and high schools. Engineers value education. Engineers usually do not make enough to afford fancy NYC private schools, and most engineers are not going to send their kids to NYC's public schools. So even if NYC succeeds in attracting young engineers, it will lose many of them as they start to raise families and leave looking for better public schools for their kids.
NYC has some of the best public schools in the world. Bronx Science has had more graduates who won Nobel prizes (6) than most countries: http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_... These public schools require competitive entry and are open to anyone in NYC who qualifies.
Granted, NYC also has some of the worst public schools in the world, too.
The problem is that people starting to raise families usually move out of NYC and into NJ suburbs with much better private and public schools (and a bigger, better house).