HELP! too many options-Future International student. MSE

drusba
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:17:07 +0000

First, I think there is an error on your list. You say University of Georgia but put it in Atlanta. University of Georgia is in Athens, Georgia quite a distance from Atlanta and it has no materials engineering program. I assume therefore you meant Georgia Institute of Technology (Gtech) which is in Atlanta and has such program.

UIUC and Gtech would be your highest ranked colleges for engineering and materials. However, the other ones you list would also be fine. As far as “Campus life” not sure what you are looking for. UIUC is fine for college town atmosphere. Also, since it is a full program university it has an equal amount of women as men and for others you list that would only be true for Conneticutt as the rest will have a high proportion of males to females since they are principally engineering universities. If you are looking for large city life, Gtech and IIT put you right in large cities, and Colorado School of Mines is right by one. UIUC is far from the choice if you want large city life (it is in two small cities, Champaign and Urbana with about 100,000 total residents and then nothing but farms, forests and little towns 50 miles in any direction). If you are looking for fairly warm weather, Gtech is the choice where it will be in 50s (Fahrenheit) when you arrive in January while at UIUC it could be zero (again Fahrenheit) with a lot of snow on the ground. The others also have cold winters.