Please Help Me Decide: UT Austin vs. UC Berkeley

profoundquiet
Mon, 09 May 2011 00:57:36 +0000

Undergraduate Engineering Specialties: Chemical
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
2 University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA
3 Stanford University Stanford, CA
4 University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN
5 University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX
5 University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI
7 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL
8 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
9 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
10 Princeton University Princeton, NJ

Both are in the top 5 and so you can’t really go wrong either way. I’d personally go to UC Berkeley since it’s only rivaled by MIT. Chemistry at Berkeley is really strong and you’d be getting a lot of great networking opportunities. I’m a Berkeley alum so I’m kind of biased though. haha.
I don’t know as much about UT-Austin. I know my friend visited for grad school and really liked Austin. Depending on the area, Berkeley’s really nice too.
I’d say Berkeley is better for biopharma/energy/biofuel while UT-Austin might be better for oil industry, since they’re physically closer to them.