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fadi68 wroteI graduated from mechanical engineering from McGill in Canada, then masters in Stanford in the US. (I had started 1 yr in AUB before). Plus in my career I hired a big nbr of engineers. This is what I can tell you from my experience.

The coursework is not the most important thing. What is important is the students around you. In university you dont only learn engineering, u also learn how to think, how to reason, how to be an adult. You want to surround yourself with the best influence possible, and believe me you will be influenced by ur fellow students. If you can go to Germany or Canada or the US or any western industrialized nation, you will have a good opportunity to have positive influences, that will be a big plus for your career and for you as a person. If you are to stay in Lebanon, nothing beats AUB for practical experience. LAU is good, but people around u are too superficial and too appearances oriented. UL is very good technically, but its students lack initiative. USJ is good but its students lack practicality.
Plus when u graduate, look for a job that gives experience, not that gives a good starting salary.

Hope that helps and good luck
i'd add to the above that after many experience years, one of the most important factor that helps you in how to reason and how to think is your school.

" la formation " at school will give you all the advantange in your studies and at work later on.
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rolf wroteGeorgia Institute of Technology, USA
Massachussets Institute of Technology, USA
Lets keep it real..What are the chances of him getting accepted into one of these ? NO OFFENSE AT ALL towards OP.
Let's keep it real. How did you decide that he had no chances to be accepted? Maybe the guy is a genius - what do you know? He asked a question and I tried to give my answer to the question.
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Im thinking of going to these 2 since they are in my budget : NDU or LAU ? Which one is better neglecting the price difference of both ? Thanks.
thegodfatherdany wroteIm thinking of going to these 2 since they are in my budget : NDU or LAU ? Which one is better neglecting the price difference of both ? Thanks.
If you can do LAU, then I think AUB would be in your budget. I don't know much about mechanical engineering, but I'm under the impression that AUB would be a better choice.

NDU I heard has a good reputation regarding Mech. Eng. but I was there (studying for a CS degree) and did not like it at all, as a university. LAU has a (well earned!) reputation of university for rich people paid by their parents, and the level of difficulty is not very high, yet personally I prefer it over NDU.

Now for M.E. in particular, it might depend on other things, the curriculum, the teachers, the material... Take a look at the curriculum and see which university has the most interesting curriculum. Also take into consideration things such as having good friends there, being close to home... all these things can make an important difference in your motivation level later on.
LAU has a (well earned!) reputation of university for rich people paid by their parents, and the level of difficulty is not very high, yet personally I prefer it over NDU.
What you said is a "reputation", not a fact. I totally recommend LAU for what I know, is that they are the only university in Lebanon whose Mechanical Engineering Department has a full license with CATIA Software for modelling, a process which takes several years.