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Colleges with skiing and engineering

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Rock_Inhabitant
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Are there any colleges with a good mechanical engineering program with proximity to a ski resort? I know Western Colorado has a pretty good mechanical engineering program and is right next to crested butte, and I know Innsbruck is in a similar situation, but are there any others?
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Michigan_Sucks
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Michigan Tech, it's not out west but when I was there we got 300+ inches every year. Ripley is right across the river and students ski for free, park is fire. Mount Bohemia is an hour north and a good time. Very active Ski and snowboard club and cool people.
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quintcork
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Rock_InhabitantAre there any colleges with a good mechanical engineering program with proximity to a ski resort? I know Western Colorado has a pretty good mechanical engineering program and is right next to crested butte, and I know Innsbruck is in a similar situation, but are there any others?

Take a look in Canada
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hamsauce
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CO School of MInes, University of Utah, and my alma mater Montana State are three that come to mind. Skiing in Bozeman is nuts.
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bogust
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I am at Colorado School of Mines and its pretty fun. A lot of people ski and we set up rails on campus sometimes but it is not an easy school. Its also very much a stem school and the ratio is kinda fucked up. It Definity has the best engineering though
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profa_212
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Utah, UNR, Colorado School of Mines, western washington, UVM, etc etc etc.




Theres 1000 threads on this. Google "good skiing colleges + Newschoolers" and youll find a ton of threads my man. NS searchbar sucks
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VT_scratch
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quintcorkTake a look in Canada


University of British Columbia. You have the local mountains for park skiing, night skiing, sunset views over the ocean, and then whistler for the big dog turns.
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bandagedbrando
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Come to ubc
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evan.n.low
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I am currently sitting in a lecture at the University of Utah and went skiing yesterday. If you wanna "major in skiing", Utah is your place to be. Within an hour, you have Snowbird, Alta, Brighton, Solitude, Park City, Deer Valley, Snowbasin, and Powder Mountain. The only close competitor I see is Boulder, but their tuition is like double ours. The U also has a great mechanical engineering program and I believe the School of Engineering is very highly rated. Utah is 100% the place to be for freeride skiing.
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SirVicSmasher
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profa_212western washington,


Nope. No Schools here and the skiing sucks. Try Montana.


All jokes aside if WA is on your list, WSU, UW and WWU offer engineering programs, what specific engineering field you're looking for would determine which you'd apply for. Plus all 3 have Satellite Campus' so you could potentially end up closer to a Ski area you're interested in if you make this choice. COL here however royally blows
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BrattyTick
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UBCO baby! 30 min from Big White and 2 hours from Revelstoke. A driveable distance to pretty much every ski resort in the northwest.
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Lonely
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Michigan_SucksMichigan Tech, it's not out west but when I was there we got 300+ inches every year. Ripley is right across the river and students ski for free, park is fire. Mount Bohemia is an hour north and a good time. Very active Ski and snowboard club and cool people.

And also some top tier urban as well if your interested in it. Like, a third of the clips from Child Labors "The strike" are from Houghton/Hancock
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C.R.E.A.M
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Boise State has Bogus Basin just outside of town. Then you have McCall, Sun Valley, and Brundage not much further out. Not sure if it's a top tier education but passes to Bogus Basin are cheap, it has night skiing many days of the week, and cost of living is generally pretty low.
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steve0
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I went to Clarkson University and studied Mechanical Engineering,we Skied a lot at Whiteface & in Vermont. We just hired a Mechanical Engineer out of UVM as well.
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ModMommy
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Montana State
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RIP_leos_shack
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VT_scratchUniversity of British Columbia. You have the local mountains for park skiing, night skiing, sunset views over the ocean, and then whistler for the big dog turns.

Second this. But from what I hear they've really hiked international tuition in recent years, not as good of a deal as it was 10 years ago when I was there. (You were too?) If you're Canadian though it's great.
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VT_scratch
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RIP_leos_shackSecond this. But from what I hear they've really hiked international tuition in recent years, not as good of a deal as it was 10 years ago when I was there. (You were too?) If you're Canadian though it's great.

Ah okay. Yeah I was there 2010-2014 ha- the glory years. I went from Vermont but I was born in Canada so I was fortunuate to go to a great school for like 5k/year CAD for tuition!
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ReturnToMonkey
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Lol does Western have a good mech eng program? I wish so, I couldve had way less in loans. Crested Butte is probably my favorite mountain but I avoided Gunni for the engineering program. Every other school in colorado with good ski access has better mechanical engineering. Seriously, CU is amazing and I think would be the best if you truly valued the balance of engineering and skiing.

If you care about skiing and other aspects of life more than school, Montana State and Utah might be a little better considering price as well. The areas are slightly more affordable and the skiing is better. The engineering program at MSU is top notch and at U of U is pretty decent, I've heard.
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dylanwood
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Western was a pretty great college for skiing. The Butte is super close and there are tons of buses leaving campus every day that drop you off right at the base area. The school’s freeride ski team was very fun and challenging and there’s tons of students who just go out and rip too if you’re after something less structured.


I missed the engineering school but the building and program is super impressive.
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Way*Mo
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Except Ripley is slowly going off the tracks. They don’t currently have anyone hired to build/run the park who is capable of driving a Cat.
Michigan_SucksMichigan Tech, it's not out west but when I was there we got 300+ inches every year. Ripley is right across the river and students ski for free, park is fire. Mount Bohemia is an hour north and a good time. Very active Ski and snowboard club and cool people.
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michael_bc
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It depends on what languages you are comfortable with.

- Zurich (ETH)
- Lausanne (EPFL)
- Grenoble
- Munich (TUM)
- Vancouver (UBC)
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BillyfromPhilly
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Utah
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gravel
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for engineering, the best education and still close enough to skiing is probably colorado front range, california somewhere 3hr from skiing, or maybe washington

for better skiing and still a pretty good education, probably way more fun people to share it with too, utah and montana
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PsychicMigration
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Surprise answer but Umass is close less then 2 hours to lots of VT and NH places snow is 1:30 max I think. Good program not quite as much of a ripoff as UVM I don’t think.
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crimeenthusiast
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if you choose utah you can skirt $18k each semester freshman year by going to SLCC and only paying $5k each semester then get instate after that
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JAHn
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OSU Cascades in Bend, OR has mechanical engineering and is 20 minutes to Mt Bachelor. I don’t know how good the program is there, but the eng program at the main campus in Corvallis is solid. Worth looking at.
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cyphers
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BassinovaNope. No Schools here and the skiing sucks. Try Montana.


All jokes aside if WA is on your list, WSU, UW and WWU offer engineering programs, what specific engineering field you're looking for would determine which you'd apply for. Plus all 3 have Satellite Campus' so you could potentially end up closer to a Ski area you're interested in if you make this choice. COL here however royally blows


idk about the other 2 but getting into ME at UW is getting pretty impossible if you're not instate/directly admitted
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STEEZUS_CHRI5T
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Michigan_SucksMichigan Tech, it's not out west but when I was there we got 300+ inches every year. Ripley is right across the river and students ski for free, park is fire. Mount Bohemia is an hour north and a good time. Very active Ski and snowboard club and cool people.


Came here to say the same thing. We used to ski after class just 10 minutes from campus, could see the resort from the dining hall/dorm room. Student pass gets you a lift ticket, it's included in your tuition. Just keep in mind it's more of a STEM school than anything else. In other words unless you are getting straight A's in High School you'll need to study your ass off. Poor male/female ratio too.
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Loodwik
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UiT Narvik if you don't mind the dark during nov-feb. Highly underrated mountain with student housing around 200 meters from the closest T-bar.
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Celery
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Not necessarily a great school for skiing all the time but UMaine has a great engineering program and there's a decent crew of people who go to Sugarloaf every weekend. It's typically a cheaper option and if you're in the north east because there's a tuition match program
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deadhead420
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JAHnOSU Cascades in Bend, OR has mechanical engineering and is 20 minutes to Mt Bachelor. I don’t know how good the program is there, but the eng program at the main campus in Corvallis is solid. Worth looking at.

OSU cascades enginering student here: The mechanical engineering degree at cascades isn't going to be starting for a few more years. The main degree is energy systems engineering, pretty good program if you want small and bachelor is sick
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Lonely
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STEEZUS_CHRI5TCame here to say the same thing. We used to ski after class just 10 minutes from campus, could see the resort from the dining hall/dorm room. Student pass gets you a lift ticket, it's included in your tuition. Just keep in mind it's more of a STEM school than anything else. In other words unless you are getting straight A's in High School you'll need to study your ass off. Poor male/female ratio too.


Yeah you definetly need to study. I think the drop out rate is still something like 33%. But if your part of that 67% that makes it through to getting your degree the job placement rate is pretty great.
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Salad20
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Dartmouth college has its on skiway and is an hour from Killington
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WoFlowz
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RIP_leos_shackSecond this. But from what I hear they've really hiked international tuition in recent years, not as good of a deal as it was 10 years ago when I was there. (You were too?) If you're Canadian though it's great.


72,000 usd a year 😐
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Penn State. 2 hours from multiple resorts on the epic pass, you can even get the local and go on a trip somewhere western if ya want during christmas or spring break. 3-4 hours from big snow (year round skiing). Excellent mechanical engineering program
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