How hard is it to get into A&M's Electrical Engineering Master's program graduating from UC Davis?

Beaudreau
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:10:26 +0000

@HoustonOrBust - I will try to respond generally to your two posts. For several reasons, I am not sure that you can meaningful compare admission rates to TAMU and California engineering schools. First, these statistics are for freshman admissions, not for transfer students. I am not aware of any comparable statistics for transfer students. Second, transferring from a community college to an in-state university is typically much easier than transferring to an out-of-state university. Third, TAMU’s engineering admission process has been significantly changed. Until the current class, any graduate of a Texas University in the top 10% of his/her class could be direct admitted into engineering, even with moderate test scores. Starting with admissions for this class, the process has changed. Top 10% graduation still guarantees (per State law) TAMU admission, but there is a separate admission review for engineering. We do not have seen data yet, but I expect that average test scores will rise significantly for this and future TAMU engineering classes.

My son will be a junior this year (OOS Arizona), majoring in aerospace engineering, so I have been reading this board for three years now. The focus is almost exclusively on freshman admissions. Typically, there is very little response to posts concerning transfers and even less concerning graduate schools, so I don’t know how much specific information you will receive.

It’s also hard for me to believe you will save any money going to college in Texas and paying OOS tution, versus staying in California and paying in-state tuition. In addition to UC Davis, have you looked at Cal Poly San Louis Obispo? That’s a very good engineering school.