Are you Army, or within the non-military contingent?
I am a civilian but I took a lot of classes with Officer Candidates from all branches of service. I take classes at night after work, and so do some of the O.C.s. I just got inducted into Tau Beta Pi with a bunch of them. Its really a good program and there are a lot of great dudes in the Program. Most serve their time and the branch pays for them to get a degree so they come to the Citadel. There is so much military in the area, its kind of a no brainer. We have a joint Air force base for C-17s, a naval weapons station (the sub fleet used to be stationed here), Boeing, a former Navy base, and that is just in the Charleston area. An hour south we have Parris Island Marine Recruit Depot and a Marine Corp Air base.
The Citadel's engineering program is top notch. Every year we compete with regional schools to include Duke, Georgia Tech, Clemson, South Carolina, NC State etc.. in engineering competitions. This year we won it, last year we finished third. We do things like building concrete canoes and steel bridges and see which one performs best, as well as other engineering related competitions for transportation and geotechnical arenas.