Texas A&M Univ, University of Minnesota or San Jose State University

ryan_kidz · 11-19-2006, 12:20 AM

Texas A&M Univ, University of Minnesota-Duluth or San Jose State University

Among those three universities, which one is the best for Engineering major?

Thank you

boomer01 · 11-19-2006, 11:36 AM

Texas A&M, but if you are from CA, San Jose State is a good option.

ryan_kidz · 11-19-2006, 01:51 PM

I see..
Thanks alot!
How about University of Minnesota-Duluth? Have u heard about that?

Ps: BTW it's not for me, it's for my cousin.

GShine_1989 · 11-19-2006, 02:58 PM

Texas A&M by a wide margin if you are talking about the flagship campus at College Station. If you are talking about some other campus of A&M or if money is an issue, then SJSU. Don't know about Minnesota-Duluth, but I doubt it's better than the other two.

Mr Payne · 11-19-2006, 03:35 PM

If you want to work in CA, then SJSU. If you want to work in Texas, then A&M. I f you want to work in semiconductors, then SJSU. If you want to work in other industries, then A&M.

ryan_kidz · 11-19-2006, 04:26 PM

Ok, it's clear now.

Thanks guys!

morfinx · 11-19-2006, 10:29 PM

I don't necessary agree with Mr. Payne. There is a large number of semiconductor companies in Dallas and Austin: AMD, National Instruments, TI, LSI, Intel, Freescale, Applied Materials, Cadence, Cirrus Logic, Cypress, Dell, IBM, Silicon Labs, Alcatel, Sun, just to name a few. And frankly, I think A&M is a better school. Although College Stations is... well, College Station.

Mr Payne · 11-19-2006, 10:56 PM

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I don't necessary agree with Mr. Payne. There is a large number of semiconductor companies in Dallas and Austin: AMD, National Instruments, TI, LSI, Intel, Freescale, Applied Materials, Cadence, Cirrus Logic, Cypress, Dell, IBM, Silicon Labs, Alcatel, Sun, just to name a few. And frankly, I think A&M is a better school. Although College Stations is... well, College Station.

The amount of tech companies in Silicon Valley is larger than the amount anywhere else in the world. SJSU feeds the most graduates into Silicon Valley than any other school (including Cal & Stanford).

boomer01 · 11-19-2006, 11:01 PM

Many, if not all of those companies that Morfinx named are also located in San Jose.

Mr Payne · 11-19-2006, 11:05 PM

Not only are they located in the Bay area, many of them are headquartered there (all the more humorous).

GShine_1989 · 11-20-2006, 12:21 AM

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The amount of tech companies in Silicon Valley is larger than the amount anywhere else in the world. SJSU feeds the most graduates into Silicon Valley than any other school (including Cal & Stanford).

But does that mean SJSU is a better option than Berkeley or Stanford? If not, then why would it be a better option than Texas A&M? Also, I think a lot of people would prefer Texas to Silicon Valley considering the ridiculously high cost of living there.

katho11 · 11-20-2006, 01:01 AM

Texas A&M is no doubt a great school...but don't expect to be anything more than a number.

Mr Payne · 11-20-2006, 01:15 AM

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But does that mean SJSU is a better option than Berkeley or Stanford? If not, then why would it be a better option than Texas A&M? Also, I think a lot of people would prefer Texas to Silicon Valley considering the ridiculously high cost of living there.

SJSU is a huge feeder to the semiconductor industry - everyone recruits there.

rocketDA · 11-20-2006, 02:06 AM

Texas A&M... they've got a lot of stuff going on...and you may be able to work yourself into something cool.

morfinx · 11-21-2006, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr Payne

The amount of tech companies in Silicon Valley is larger than the amount anywhere else in the world. SJSU feeds the most graduates into Silicon Valley than any other school (including Cal & Stanford).

That's certainly true and I agree with that. However, your original post specifically said do NOT go to A&M if the OP wants to go into the semiconductor industry, which is simply not true. Texas has one of the highest concentrations of semiconductor companies apart from California, earning it the nick name "Silicon Hills".

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Originally Posted by Mr Payne

Not only are they located in the Bay area, many of them are headquartered there (all the more humorous).

That is also true. As an aside, out of my example from the previous post, the ones headquarterd in TX are Texas Instruments, National Instruments, Freescale, Cirrus Logic, Dell, and Silicon Labs. AMD is headquartered in CA only in name, there are way more jobs in the Austin campus than the Sunnyvale, Ft Collins, and Boston campuses combined. CEO Hector Ruiz also works out of Austin. IBM's one of six major research centers is also in Austin.