<p>tomathist,</p>
<p>I’m glad you’ve narrowed it down to UCLA/Cal Poly SLO due to campus/environment preference. I graduated from EE at UCI and am now at UCLA for my MS/PhD), and I find the program strengths are all variable, unless you know your specific specialization (ie communications under signals and systems, photonics under physical and wave electronics, etc.). Honestly, you won’t understand this until you hit your senior year/take graduate courses. </p>
<p>What are your plans in the future with EE? MS? Ph.D? MBA? Are you planning on working in Korea (Samsung Korea recruits straight from UCLA)? </p>
<p>Although Cal Poly SLO does strive to create a more hands on curriculum, being best prepared for the working world is heavily based on the student’s effort into building his/her resume through research opportunities, projects, and leadership experience. That being said, I wouldn’t assume that Cal Poly’s EE program is stronger than UCLA’s.</p>