UT Austin vs Georgia Tech vs UIUC

JamesMadison
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:27:54 +0000

BanjoHitter:

I’ve hired from all three schools, and in my opinion, GT has the best department, followed by Illinois (but I’m biased).



You ARE biased. I am not trying to be rude, but it seems you are almost misrepresenting the academic clout of Georgia Tech, on a national level, only because you happened to attend.

I recently was faced with the decision of attending Georgia Tech vs UCLA vs Illinois for EE, and I asked several professors which is the strongest program. They ALL told me Illinois > UCLA > Georgia (although they admitted, they are all good schools and you can’t go wrong either way). I know GT is ranked high on US News, but that is not the whole story. And besides, it is just ONE of many rankings.

The issue with Georgia is simply the fact that there are no comparable schools in the area. Whereas in California, you have Stanford, Caltech, UCLA, UCSD, HMC, and Berkeley all right there. So although Georgia is very strong in the south, by national standards its not the behemoth you make it out to be.