Engineering: Carnegie Mellon or Georgia Tech?

Anselmo
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:40:28 +0000

Yes, the side you take is really up to you. I’ll see what I can do about your original questions:


CMU is rated higher in CE than Georgia Tech, but Georgia Tech is higher than CMU at EE. I don’t think I’ve found a CMU ECE student who likes analogue circuits though…
Status - I come from silicon valley, CA, where all the great tech companies (bar microsoft) are found. Every time I talk to an engineer there, they instantly know about CMU and are impressed. However, anyone who is not an engineer probably will first ask you where CMU is. (I can’t say anything about GaTech, but at least everyone knows which state it is located in )
Startup way - While I would argue that Sergey and Larry were getting their masters, and not their bachelors, when google was conceived, CMU has had some entrepreneurs. The one that comes to mind are the founders of Red Hat Linux.