UCSD v. Duke

Colleges & Universities University of California - San Diego
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<p>My little sister was a freshman at duke last year as an engineering major…she went to high school in San Diego and couldn’t bear being away from home so this year she went to a cc in sd and is planning on attending UCSD next year. Should I try and talk her out of this? Isn’t Duke a much better school? She wants to work for NASA and claims that recruiting is heavier at UCSD than at Duke…can this be true?</p>

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<p>Definitely. And don’t get hung up on what’s a better school based on just the school’s national overall ranking – for example, while UCSD does score lower than Duke overall, UCSD’s engineering department scores higher than Duke’s engineering department ([source](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/brief/engrank_brief.php]source[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/brief/engrank_brief.php)</a>), albeit at the graduate level.</p>

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<p>ucsddddddd</p>

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<p>Tell her to stay at Duke.</p>

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<p>How about let her do what she wants to do? She’s obviously more knowledgable about her situation than any of us.</p>

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<p>duke is better…</p>

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<p>Agree with Slorg. Obviously, Duke has more prestige, but prestige isn’t everything. UCSD has a really good engineering school (graduate, but that generally reflects positively on the undergraduate program) and I’m sure she knows what she wants. Don’t convince her of anything.</p>

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<p>i dont see how the graduate school should carry any weight in this decision. And last time I cecked, prestige means a whole lot when looking for a job post graduation. </p>

<p>i’m not convincing her of anything, just think about it as informing her of the repercussions of her decisions. </p>

<p>so everyone generally agrees that duke is better school (undergraduate obviously)? What about her statement about recruiting at UCSD?</p>

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<p>Prestige only means something when the prestige is carried in the specific area of study your job is related to. Employers aren’t stupid. If UCSD is known as a better school for engineering, they’ll like students who come from UCSD better. All I said about the graduate program was that in general, a good graduate program generally means that the undergraduate program for the same area of study is going to be good as well.</p>

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<p>thats odd because everything i’ve heard about ucsd is that undergraduates feel neglected compared to graduate students. is duke’s engineering program looked down upon compared to ucsd’s?</p>

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<p>I’m not exactly sure what site I pulled this off of, but i remember saving this in a text doc a few months (or more) ago. Does anyone know what this is? I seriously can’t remember where i cut+pasted this from… it must’ve been from my time searching for colleges to apply to. At any rate, here is a bit of it. </p>

<p>Can anyone confirm that this is what it says it is?</p>

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<p>Probably from US News? Although you can’t access that information unless you have a subscription so you must have had a subscription at the time you saved it. If you don’t have a subscription you can only see the top 3.
I was going by the graduate school ranking for engineering, which places UCSD at #11 and Duke at #30, but maybe this is more accurate.</p>