<p>All I know about SJSU is that it has a decent engineering program, a pretty lame campus/surrounding area, and is a commuter campus.</p>
<p>UCSB is better in every category I mentioned. The only thing that could be better about SJSU is that it MIGHT prepare you a little more if you wanna go straight in to industry after school since UC’s are geared a little more towards grad school/research. But most people here at UCSB go in to industry after graduation, so it does prepare you well. I tend to think that CSU’s, except for Cal Poly, exaggerate the “we prepare you for industry more than UC’s do” stuff.</p>
<p>So I’d say visit both schools one after another to see the differences; they are completely different schools.</p>