<p>Its strange UCSB has managed to be ranked higher than Irvine. Irvine and Davis have historically been ranked higher in Civil and Mechanical engineering than UCSB.
[NRC</a> Rankings in Mechanical Eng](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area26.html]NRC”>NRC Rankings in Mechanical Eng)
[NRC</a> Rankings in Civil Eng](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area22.html]NRC”>NRC Rankings in Civil Eng)
Maybe that school is finally turning around from when I applied to college.</p>