What's the Best School for an M.S. in System Engineering?

Your head is so big it doesn't fit through the door frame. What does it matter what school you go to if your goal is to retire in 18 years as Under Secretary of Defense? The last time I checked, that was not a technical position. Also, engineers never retire. You sound like you need to find the best school for political studies.

Uh, thanks for the help. (Note to self: dial back cockiness 10%. No, make that 5%, just to be safe.)

The mere act of setting a goal requires some confidence/arrogance. Setting a big goal requires cockiness that I might not be able to back up. But I figure I might as well aim high if I'm aiming anywhere. I have a very tight schedule of progression and probably won't end up anywhere near the target. But it'll be a fun ride regardless.

I believe engineers make the best managers if they can figure out that emotion thing, and the fact is that I'm starting from engineering, regardless of whether I end up in politics. (Besides, where does real work end and politics begin? Three levels below Secretary, four, or could it be that there's politics everywhere?)

I guess there aren't many system engineers in CR4?

"I guess there aren't many system engineers in CR4?"

Informally, I have been functioning as a SYSTEM Engineer for over 4 decades.Why hanker after mere formal qualifications? Even if you qualify, Your effectiveness as a systems engineer will depend upon your innate skills to be able to take holistic view and being aware of a plant or a complex systems' functioning in a time coherent manner than any set of governing equations to describe the system. Any modeling, mathematical or otherwise, will be far short of the reality. Laplace transforms are nothing but a mathematical trick to convert time domain to frequency domain to get a "Second hand" idea on complex real time phenomena!!

Therefore, I suggest that the best School for System Engineering is the SCHOOL of HARD-KNOCKS.

Where is your undergtad degree from???

That oe may be your best since you are very familiar with it.

Or try my school, Penn State Univ.

Don't know about the quality but check out this link:

http://www.spsu.edu/asc/distancelearning/onlinedegrees.html

You can get a graduate certificate, an advanced certificate and then a Master of Science.