<p>I live in atlanta GA at the moment. I have an admit from the university of illinois at chicago. for MS in computer science for Fall 2010. I work full time, so the prospects of attending UIC full time seem impractical. Is there a chance that i can juggle work and my MS some way? can i just talk to the univ and see if they would let me do it part time? Does any one know some one who did this before at UIC?</p>
<p>Well, I read the UIC vs UIUC thread and UIC was bashed much. What i heard though, was that the UIC students get to attend UIUC’s Job fair’s and is pretty reputed…</p>
<p>I am a bit confused, I might even try to apply to georgia tech for spring 2011, if things dont work out.</p>
<p>Furthermore, given a choice of Georgia tech vs UIC which would you think is better and why?</p>
<p>Why would UIC’s students want to attend far, distant UIUC’s job fair, when there is a perfectly good one at UIC. UIC’s job fair draws more than current students. You’ll get a lot of U of I alums as well. if you are an alum then the fair is free, if you are not an alum/current student, then it is $10. It is not uncommon of U of I alum events in the Chicago area to occur at UIC.</p>
<p>Sorry to bump an old thread… but I’ve been to both UIUC and UIC. I’ve seen the flyers for both of their career fairs, primarily for engineering.</p>
<p>UIUC, whether you’d like to admit it or not Nova10, attracts better (as in more nationally recognized - not necessarily better paying) companies to their fairs. I don’t think Raytheon, Google, nVidia, and all sorts of Bay area companies go to recruit at UIC. Now, this doesn’t mean that UIC engineering grads are relegated to work at local, mundane companies making unimportant widgets. But if I were a UIC engineering student, I’d seriously consider taking a trip to the Urbana career fair. I have heard though, that a few companies there do know about the entire Illinois system and (maybe unjustfiably?) screen resumes out for Urbana students only.</p>
<p>Keep in mind my knowledge about UIUC’s fairs is pre-recession, i.e. Fall 07 and Spring 08, so it’s possible that UIUC’s recruitment potential has eroded a bit since then.</p>