<p>Riversong123: participating in research for undergraduate EECS students at Berkeley would not be a problem. In fact, each and every EECS & CS student is highly encourage to do it, and everyone in those majors are involved in some kind of research within the department, many of them are even paid, as a number of research being done at the department and the university are funded by private firms. </p>
<p>Let your son visit the department. He will be surprised a number of students involved in research (which mostly are high-profile projects) are already earning. That said, I would be surprised if Duke’s equivalent department doesn’t have any research projects going on, though I would be very surprised if the quality of research projects done there would be as high-profile and as well-funded as in those in UC Berkeley. Indeed Duke is a very good school. But when it comes to engineering, and specially EECS, Berkeley is in a different league. There’s a reason why the EECS graduates of UC Berkeley are amongst the highest paid in the entire nation, and the program ranks number 1 in terms of ROI. <a href=“http://www.payscale.com/college-roi/full-list/sort-by/AnnualRoi/by-state/California/by-major/Computer%20Science”>http://www.payscale.com/college-roi/full-list/sort-by/AnnualRoi/by-state/California/by-major/Computer%20Science</a> </p>
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