UCSD vs Cal Poly SLO vs UCLA

knovoselic
Fri, 24 Mar 2017 02:45:58 +0000

@AnxMom2021 I would be careful to use employment rate as a criteria for decision. To my understanding, Cal Poly’s employment rate right out of undergrad school is greater than most of the UC’s, except for UCSD and UCB (so yeah, I guess it beats UCLA, probably because they waste their funding on basketball). It’s fantastic that people with non-engineering degrees get jobs right out of college, but I don’t think that I can say the same for those with engineering degrees. In today’s economy, apparently getting a graduate degree is essential for an engineer, both in terms of employment and pay. My dad, as an example, is an aeronautical engineer who interned and eventually worked for NASA before and during his graduate studies, and he always tells me that one of his greatest regrets is failing to get his doctorate.
Anyways, I’d rather not do career work at all until I’m done with all of my schooling, or at least not any work that interferes with the pace of university education, so I’m looking to go to graduate school immediately after completing my undergraduate (hopefully in 2-3 years). For this reason, even if I get into UCB tomorrow (unlikely lol), I’d probably not take up the offer, because of their problem with grade deflation.