<p>The Henry Samueli (Founder of Broadcom) school of engineering has a better reputation than Davis’ school of eng. Big companies like Raytheon, northrop grumman, boeing, broadcom,rockwell, JPL, IBM, Chevron hire mainly from UCi. On top of that UCI has a really good MAE program.They are even developing a satellite which will be launched pretty soon. This program along the ICS and Bio programs are targeted to become the top programs in the nation. UCD might look better in ranks, but once you are in the field, then you realize that things are different. Plus UCI is in the OC.</p>