USC, UIUC, UCLA, UCSD or UVa for Electrical Engineering

drax12
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:49:40 +0000

I don’t know if your “which is hardly known…” statement applied to both UCLA and USC, but if only to UCLA…

… then you would be dead wrong. UCLA engineering grads are highly successful. They’ve been known to start chip companies, to have options for MS/PHD programs, to go to med school, etc.

I think you’re downgrading UCLA engineering because its faculty may not be top 10. There is a brain-drain for some faculty becaues the area that surrounds the school is arguably the most expensive real estate in the country, maybe the world.

But this does’nt belie that the faculty is excellent, and the grads are excellent also. There’s not much difference in standards between UCLA and Cal’s engineering grads for admissions, and I would guess taht UCLA’s would be decently tougher to gain entry to than UIUC’s.