Rutgers vs . Rice vs. Rensaeller Poly vs Virginia tech

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<p>Which universities one should choose for grad electrical engineering if one got selected in all of these? Weather or tuition costs is not an issue but academic quality is.</p>

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<p>RPI . Why? Because I know more about it in comparison to the others in the list. I also see that many firms hire from RPI in NY state. Rice is good too.</p>

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<p>I would go to Rice personally b/c I heard the campus is really nice and it has a lot of prestige in all fields, including EE.</p>

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<p>Don’t know about RPI or VT but at Rutgers engineering you will spend your first two years in large lecture hall classes being taught by TA’s who do not have a good command of the English language. In other words, Rutgers offers a very traditional large school engineering education. And even if you are a self learner, plan on spending 5 years there.</p>

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<p>toblin: He’s talking about graduate school, so he’d be more likely to be the TA.</p>

<p>If tuition costs are not an issue, don’t go to Rutgers. I would presume most people end up here for financial reasions (and disclaimer: still love it), but the other schools you mentioned are better academically (or at least ranked better; better is a subjective term).</p>

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<p>It really depends on what you want to do in electrical engineering. VT I know offers a lot of variety in terms of classes/research since it has one of the largest EE/CPE faculty in the nation.</p>

<p>When it comes down to grad school in engineering, it isn’t about the classes, but more about research and gaining a deeper understanding of a particular field within the major.</p>

<p>Below is an article about some of the research topics being addressed at Virginia Tech in their ECE department.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.ece.vt.edu/news/ar09/pdf/ecear09.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ece.vt.edu/news/ar09/pdf/ecear09.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>If you get accepted to Rice, I can put you in touch with my brother, who’s a grad student in electrical engineering there (and also the new manager of Valhalla, the grad student bar). Let me know.</p>

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<p>Thanks aibarr, I have been accepted into Purdue and GAtech, Rutgers, and U Missouri Columbia. However I am yet to decide between Purdue and Gatech obviously.</p>