UC Santa Barbara Freshman Class of 2027 Waitlist/Appeal Thread

[gauchoengineering]

I wrote a little bit about my thoughts about the Engineering school here:

UC Santa Barbara Class of 2027 Official Thread

I can only speak to the situation for Engineering students since I’m a Computer Engineer, and I can only say so much since I’m only a first year student. In my experience, there are quite a few local companies that recruit very heavily from the school’s ECE department for interns. The Santa Barbara area’s main industry in terms of tech is mostly for the defense industry. Goleta, CA is actually the closest city to campus and it’s filled many companies, mostly defense contractors, who heavily recruit students. Look on Google Maps, north of campus is Hollister Road, where a lot of the companies are located. For example, Raytheon has a large facility, right outside campus. A ton of those companies I’ve had contact with. Bigger companies like Amazon and Microsoft also come to the career fairs to recruit. With that being said, this is a large public university after all and jobs and internships won’t be just given to you. The university does a good job in my opinion with directly sending u…