UT Austin vs Georgia Tech vs UIUC

JamesMadison
Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:58:12 +0000

CosmicFish:

Well, I think Stanford and MIT are the two best engineering schools, so does that admission mean I am self-destructive? There are lots of “large public engineering universities” and some are great, some aren’t… just like small private engineering universities, or any other arbitrary category you want to name. If I wanted to reflect better on my university I would hardly start by exhorting other schools.



You could hardly say UIUC is better than MIT without being made to look foolish. Some comparisons are ridiculous. However, within a certain “sanity-range”, people will definitely exaggerate the strength of their program.



CosmicFish:

I find it interesting that at the end of the above thread, you were trending GT, a school you now seem to be condemning.



Why is it interesting? I strongly considered GT as it is a great school. However, I have no illusions about the quality of the program. There are many other similarly great schools like Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Purdue, UCLA, USC, UCSD, etc. Personally, I would not place GT above the schools I listed; I would say they are in the same league.

(BTW: The thread I made was before I had a chance to talk to those 3 professors. This is a large part of why I changed my mind.)



CosmicFish:

I would consider “better” to mean that the school produces “more competent” engineers and researchers. In my experience, GT is, by this standard, “better” than the vast majority of schools.



You said your measure of better is, who produces more competent engineers. You also admitted you don’t know any UCLA graduates. That means, your opinion that you posted earlier in the thread is completely without basis.